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Effective Note Taking Strategies for HSC students
Effective note-taking is an essential skill for successful HSC students. Whether in the classroom or at home, developing a system for taking and organising notes is crucial to exam preparation. Here are some tips for writing effective notes that will support you in preparing for the exam room. Use a structured format Organise your notes by topic and subtopic, using headings, bullet points, and numbered lists. This structure will make it easier to read and review your notes, helping you to...
Great Article For HSC Economics Students
The easiest path to getting a great result in HSC Economics is to be actively interested in what is happening with the global and Australian economy as it happens. Economic indicators and policies are analysed on a hourly basis across the globe allowing students to...
Cool Companies To Work For #1: AirBNB
“Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.” Seth Godin Whoever said that a career is all about work and no play, they’ve got it wrong. Airbnb is a disrupter business shaking up the hotel industry...
Bondi Junction HSC CoWorks Renovation Complete
2014 marks our 18th year in business and what better way to celebrate turning 18 than getting a nice new renovation. Over the years Fergus has changed the business name a few times starting with Effective Learning in 1996 before we moved to Interactive Learning, to...
Online Job Application For HSC 2014
Hi Everyone, We have a number of junior tutor positions available to work at our Mosman and Bondi Junction HSC tuition centres in 2014. Click this link to find out more and apply online today. [button...
What’s Your Vision For HSC 2014?
HSC CoWorks offers HSC Tuition and HSC Coaching in Sydney across a number of subjects. Our team is made up of a team of HSC experts. Experienced HSC teachers, HSC markers, high achieving ex-students and certified life coaches. We have been a part of successful HSC...
Ten Things You Can Do Over Christmas Holidays To Prepare You For The Climb Up Mount HSC
Two of our high achieving coaches have put together some gold tips for the HSC CoWorks students over the Christmas holidays. Whilst students excelled around us, our HSC term 4 was not as successful as we had both hoped. Overall, we didn't achieve the results we had...
7 Pieces Of Advice For The Class Of 2013
It has been an absolute pleasure to work with you all in 2013. I have loved supporting you on your climb up Mount HSC as you overcame obstacles, struggled, and overcame some more struggles. The HSC is a metaphor for life. The more you put in, the more you get out of...
Major Works Are Major Work
HSC MAJOR WORKS ARE MAJOR WORK My HSC experience was different to most. With the absence of maths and science, I instead decided to tackle three major works; those being Visual arts, Design and Technology, and Extension 2 English. Unlike the ‘traditional’ HSC subjects...
Five Reasons To Keep Going Hard Until The End of Term 4
With Term 4 quickly coming to an end, there is a tendency for HSC students to start thinking about the Summer holidays a few weeks before the end of Term. Having worked with 1000's of HSC students over the last 17 years we have seen the value of continuing to put in...
December/January Holidays Open Hours
The summer holidays in the HSC year are an opportunity to rest and re-energise in preparation for the climb up the much steeper sections of Mount HSC in Terms 1, 2 and 3. We advise that students take a good break from the HSC campaign of 3 to 4 weeks. This may seem...
What Term 4 2013 Means For The 2014 HSC: Get Into It!
The HSC is a pretty confusing timetable. Beginning a year of intense work a couple of months before Christmas is tricky, because it's easy to look at the long December holidays and try to cruise through the first term of Year 12 without too much effort, just counting...
HSC CoWorks Bondi Junction Renovation Has Begun
Our Bondi Junction office underwent the first steps towards its full fit out this today and when I walked through the door I was speechless. The space looks so much bigger and I can already see how this renovation is going to make this the ideal space to prepare for...
Creative Writing: Fighting Writers’ Block
Hi everyone, One of the parts of the HSC that nobody can get out of, no matter how crafty you are with subject choices, is creative writing. For some people, this is fine. Creative writing is your thing. You're excited to write a story! We're not talking about those...
HSC 2014: First Competition of the Year – Win 2 Event Cinema tickets!
Hi everyone! If you're a student with us you should be a member of our private Facebook group, here. These questions can be answered by watching the video lessons on the website that are specific to your module. Send your answer to [email protected] to go in...
HSC Coworks: First Competition of the HSC 2014!
If you haven't heard already, the HSC Coworks is now on Facebook! We've got a private Facebook group for our HSC 2014 students to share resources, discuss related text ideas and gain motivation for the HSC 2014. It's a long year, and we're here to help even when our...
Lizzy’s 9 Last Minute HSC Tips
Okay, we're there. It's not weeks away anymore, it's days away. Wait - it's a weekend away. Before you move to Antarctica to live a happy and simple (if cold) life away from the world of exam booklets and Hamlet and energy drinks and all the other delights of the HSC,...
Where Is Your HSC Focus?
The HSC is as much an endurance test as it is an intellectual challenge, and like a physical endurance test, where you prime your body, for the HSC, you prime your mind. The principles of brain-based coaching, which is what we do at HSC co-works, are directly related...
Struggling Is Essential For A Great HSC Result
In the final stages of HSC campaign 2013 there is only one way to be studying in order to be fully prepared for the exams that lie ahead. One of our favourite quotes at the office is "without struggle there is no progress" which we have put an HSC slant on it to "if...
Neuroscience and the HSC
HSC CoWorks is always been looking for better learning outcomes for our students. We are tremendously proud of our record in helping 1000's of students achieve excellent or at least far better results than schools or parents have expected of them. I (Fergus, Director...
A Successful 21st Century Operator?
I don't think that there is anyone who would disagree with the fact that we live in times of enormous change and as an HSC coaching and HSC tuition centre we are at the forefront of this change as we prepare our students for the new economy that we live in. We believe...
