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Expert guides, practical tips, and proven strategies to help you perform at your best in the HSC.
Why Your Year 12 Success Starts Before Term 1
When students think about preparing for Year 12, they often picture buying new stationery, organising folders, or enjoying one last holiday before the "real work" begins. The reality is that the students who thrive in Year 12 don't wait until the first day of school to get organised. They start before the year even begins. While many Year 11 graduates spend the holidays doing a very minimal amount, the highest-performing students use that time to build a foundation that gives them confidence,...
The missing ingredients for HSC Success
Let’s be honest. How well prepared is your child for the HSC exams? Do you know what it will take for them to achieve what they want? Do you believe it’s about how many times they write their notes out, how many hours they spend studying, how well they perform...
5 Essential Behaviours for getting a Band 6 in General Mathematics
Break it down The HSC General Maths syllabus covers both Preliminary material and year 12 material. All together that is 14 individual topics which include at least two sub-topics. That is a lot to cover, especially for larger assessments such as trials or the...
How Can Parents Support Students Through The HSC?
The HSC Year is one of highs and lows. The year will have its inevitable roadblocks and disappointments, personal insights, thoughts about the future and transition to adulthood with 18ths, drivers licenses and applications for University. Whilst this journey belongs...
Federal Budget
Key elements of the 2017/18 Federal Budget in relation to the Economics HSC Syllabus Having a mildly contractionary stance with a deficit outcome of $29.4 billion, the coalition’s 2017/18 Federal Budget delivered by Treasurer Scott Morrison on the 9th of May features...
True Grit
Ah, that classic story about a young girl, hiring a lawman to chase down a renegade who killed her father. No, wait, that’s True Grit, the 2010 Western film remade from a John Wayne classic. This true grit is a better story. It’s the story where you achieve great...
So Who Are The Bolsheviks And What Do They Have To Do With Stalin?
When it comes to studying Russia and the USSR as your national study, you may have already heard the name Stalin thrown around as a prime example of a totalitarian dictator or heard of the Bolsheviks as a revolutionary communist group – but who really were they? Let's...
Marshmallow Test
Don’t Eat That Marshmallow – It Could Make You Money If you have the time, google “Marshmallow Experiment Kids”. It’s a simple experiment that’s designed to show off your natural tendencies. But it also happens to be hilarious. The premise of the experiment is this: A...
The Secret Blueprint For Module B
Even for the most passionate English student, starting a new essay can be a painful and overwhelming experience. This is particularly true of Module B essays as the syllabus lacks its usual directive towards explorations of ‘Discovery’ or a comparison of two texts...
HSC Geography – The Great Barrier Reef in 5 minutes
For the ecosystems at risk component of the HSC Geography syllabus it is all about keeping up to date with the ecosystem you are studying. It is important to know the history regarding your ecosystem however you should also include recent events. This is especially...
3 x Daily Rituals for HSC Success
Before we introduce the daily rituals, let's just do a quick recap of the number of hours a typical HSC student's day: 9 hours for sleep 7 hours for school 1 hour for travel time 3 hours study/school work/assessments/daily rituals 4 hours for eating, relaxing, school...
The Most Effective Study Strategies for Business Studies
When studying for Business Studies, its essential to have a set of detailed and well thought out summary notes for each core topic (Operations, Marketing, Finance and Human Resources) however this alone is not always enough to achieve the highest marks in exams....
5 Tips For A Band 6 Visual Arts Essay
It is important to note that the theoretical component of Visual arts counts for 50% of your final mark. Therefore it is important to nail the essay writing and unseen plate component of the course as well as your major piece of work. Although there are many different...
Why Did The RBA Leave Interest Rates At 1.5%?
For the eighth consecutive month, the Reserve Bank has left official interest rates at a historic low of 1.5%. Why? A multitude of factors influenced the board to loosen monetary policy, including the steady increase in property market prices of domestic capital...
500 Tips Of Summer (actually, more like 5): How To Use Your Holidays To Their Full Potential
The summer holidays are a critical time during which we encourage all students to actively reflect, plan and implement good study habits to place them in good stead ahead of the rest of year 12. While it’s certainly not a do or die kind of mentality and you all...
Do I Make Money or Be Happy?
Finding the Right Career for You Maybe you’ve only ever thought that you can make money or be happy when you choose your career. That seems like an extremely hard choice, right? Either you find a job that makes you satisfied and happy to go to work every morning, or...
Creating a Purposeful Gap Year
If you’re one of the thousands of students who’ve decided to take a gap year before settling down to uni, you’ve made a great decision. If you’re doing it to travel with friends, take some time off from school, or just work out what it is you want to do with your...
How to Find your Passion & Purpose
Sometimes, it may feel like you’re just bumping through life, aimlessly and without a purpose or a passion. People around you are so sure of what they’re going to do after school and with the rest of their lives. It can be intimidating to know someone like that who...
How To Supercharge Your Productivity
How is it possible that business leaders, politicians, and even every other friend you have in school gets more stuff done during their day? How can they use their 24 hours in day better than you? We all have the same number of hours, so what makes them so productive?...
Too Much School Is Not Always Cool
Some days, you might be thinking that school is a waste of time and that nothing good will come of it. Studies are showing that you could be right. There are an incredible number of young people, freshly graduated from universities with Bachelor degrees, Masters, and...
Be the First: Careers That Have Changed Through the Years
What will your future hold? What will your future career be? The good news is that there is no prescribed future career for anyone. The world is changing and it’s changing so fast that careers are popping up in places no one could have predicted. How could anyone 10...
