Advice halfway through the term

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Great work Year 12 on making it half-way through your first term! Here's some tips that may come in handy this year: 1) 𝘼𝙨𝙠 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨. In the class, and if not then, at the end of class at least. Otherwise, a concept for that syllabus dot-point will remain unclear, and then you will forget all about it until you see it in a question in your next assessment task. Ouch. 2) 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙮 𝙪𝙥-𝙩𝙤-𝙙𝙖𝙩𝙚. If you miss a class, go at the end of the next class or in your own time (eg lunch) to see the teacher and find out what work you missed, what worksheets you need etc. As far as the teacher is concerned, that syllabus dot-point has been ticked off. It's up to you to make sure you catch up. And if you're very behind, don't just disregard new content to make time for catching up, otherwise it will keep building up. Make time for the new stuff, then go back and catch up. 3) 𝘿𝙤 𝙥𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙥𝙖𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨. You can learn all the content in the textbook, but if you can't apply it to a question, your marker can't give you the marks. So while you're learning new stuff, do practice questions on them. A great way is to treat the actual syllabus dot-point as a question and answer that. And start doing past papers so you don't forget stuff you learnt weeks ago. And don't wait to do papers until just before trials. Once you've finished your first module, you should start doing papers. And for maths, since they are two-year courses, you should start at the beginning of Year 12. 4) 𝘿𝙤𝙣'𝙩 𝙗𝙚 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙙. A bad mark can be daunting; especially on a first assessment task. But even if its weighting is 30%, that's only 15% of your HSC Mark for that subject. And then there are other external factors, such as your cohort and scaling. Learn from the assessment task. Be brutally honest with what went wrong in your preparation prior and your performance during the assessment, WRITE these out and reflect. Then come up with strategies to improve/solve all these problems. And you'll do better in the next assessment once you apply those improved strategies to your preparation