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Smart? Or Something Else?
Being gifted is a subject of debate. Some believe that some people are born with certain abilities and talents, while others believe it's all about the effort one puts in to perfecting those skills. There is no definitive answer as to whether being gifted exists or not, but one thing is for sure: developing resilience and practicing can pay off significantly when it comes to excelling at something. It might seem like some people have a natural ability when it comes to writing essays,...
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...
Con-graduations!
Hi everyone, Well, it's been a big two weeks. By today, all of our Year 12 students will have graduated and will never have to wear a school uniform again. Unless you plan on wearing it just for fun that is. Congratulations everyone! Thirteen years in the making and...
Bondi Junction Renovations – December 2013
From December 2013 our Bondi Junction tuition centre will be getting a renovation to match our extremely popular with the students Mosman tuition centre. The metres and metres of idea paint(whiteboard paint) on the walls of Mosman have been a huge hit with our...
What Do You Want To Achieve Before The HSC?
Hi everyone, There's not long now. We're all already looking towards the holidays, Â with the trials now firmly behind us. It's the final countdown! Let's face it, not many huge things were invented in a month. Facebook, for example, began as a series of really bad...
HSC CoWorks New Team Member
The HSC CoWorks will now be a daily feature of the bumper to bumper traffic on Military Road as our Business Manager and resident life coach Jesse drives from his home in Manly to our HSC tuition centre in Mosman to our HSC tuition centre in Bondi Junction and back...
Hashtag #noregrets2013
Hi Everyone, As we enter the final stages of HSC 2013 one of my roles at HSC CoWorks Bondi Junction and Mosman is to help ensure that students walk out of their final HSC exam with no regrets about the amount of effort they put into their HSC campaign. With 50% of...
Crucial Lead-up Weeks Before The Big Exams
Hi everyone, Final Note on Trials 2013 Almost all of our students have finished, or are just about to finish, their trial HSC exams for 2013. I'm not going to lie - it's been a pretty tough couple of weeks for everyone, and the work and the results we've seen in the...
Outside Your Comfort Zone Is Where The Extra Marks Can Be Found
One of my roles at the HSC CoWorks is to make our students feel comfortable outside their comfort zone as that's where the extra marks are to be found. Over the last week especially I have had five different students tell me that they can't remember all of the...
Freaking Out After Trials?
We know that these weeks are some of the hardest weeks of the HSC to keep motivated and keep pushing towards your study goals. You've just finished your trial exams, which should mean you get to relax, and now you're waiting on those results. Not to mention...
