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The Power of Practice Questions: Why They’re Your Secret Weapon to Success in the Exam Room
With Trial Exams just 75 days away, the countdown is officially on. But the real question is: how are you training for game day? If you're relying on notes, rereading textbooks, or highlighting passively, you’re only half preparing. Your true secret weapon? Practice questions. Read our top exam training tips below. 1. Active Practice Beats Passive Study Passive study feels safe. It feels productive. But reading your notes isn’t the same as applying your knowledge. The exam room doesn’t ask if...
If you can’t do the little things right, how can you expect to do the big things well?
Everyone wants to be able to do the big things well but there is very little differentiator between those who can, and those who can't. Those who are able to succeed have had to put in the hard work with all the little things in order to allow them the chance to...
6 Steps to Conquering Mount HSC, Mount Uni & Mount Life
Learning how to learn (and enjoying it!) is an opportunity available to every HSC student. Here are our 6 top tips for getting up your next mountain successfully.
Virtual Campfire – Encouragement, accountability and community
Always helps to know other people are also putting in the hard yards Virtual Campfire - A place for encouragement, accountability and communityI think it's safe to say most people enjoy sitting around a campfire should the opportunity arise. While there is no heat...
What if you were suddenly given everything you want?
There is a knock on the door and a delivery driver is there with a box on it with the following message:
‘Congratulations! Inside this box is your goal ATAR, early entry into your dream university course and a feeling of no regrets’
Do you take the box?
Right Now: A Significant Moment
Right now is a significant moment because right now there is a choice available. You have just two options.
The Answer to Your Motivation Issues
Zig Ziglar (motivation Guru from the 80s and 90s) is famous for saying ‘People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.’
How to Make the Most Out of ‘Lockdown Learning’
With NESA confirming that the 2020 HSC will be going ahead, students need to be flexible, consistent and solutions-focused if they want to make the most out of their HSC year.
COVID-19 RESPONSE
In the face of uncertain and challenging times, it is important to respond with flexibility and positivity. In response to the outbreak of COVID-19 in Australia, the team at HSC CoWorks were proactive and adaptive, working tirelessly to update the service and continue...
Learning from Home: How to Set Up Your At-Home Study Space
The global outbreak of COVID-19 has brought a great deal of change to the world. That much goes without saying. And the education space is certainly not exempt from this. As a result of the pandemic, many Australian schools have been forced to introduce a ‘learning...
Cramming: The HSC Habit You Need to Quit
While a very common study method employed by students, cramming is an ineffective, not to mention stressful, approach. Here’s how to study effectively and build the habit of consistency!
Summer Holidays 2019/20
There are several schools finishing very early this year, giving students 2 whole months of summer holidays. Whilst we encourage students to have a bit of a break and re-group from a very busy Year 11 and 1st Term Year 12, these summer holidays are also the best...
Your HSC Success Story
You have everything you need to create your very own HSC Success Story. When we look around at those who are achieving the success which we want for ourselves, it is easy to fall into the trap of attributing those people as having 'super powers' i.e. they are smarter,...
R U OK DAY
Hi, my name is Portia Gooch, and I am a Senior Coach at HSC CoWorks in Bondi Junction and Regional Ambassador for the HSC CoWorks’ Virtual Campus. However, in my time outside of the office, I am also a psychology student and a youth mental health worker with a passion...
Beware of the Post HSC Trials Slump…
With many students mid HSC Trials right now, we wanted to discuss a very common obstacle that students tend to face in a couple of weeks: the post-trials slump. Yes it’s a real thing! After (hopefully) working very hard in the lead-up to trials, and an intensive exam...
How to stay ‘Gritty’ post Trials
The key to staying gritty through the post-trials period comes back to our first and most important student key behaviour ‘Engage your vision’. No student wants to re-work an English essay or complete another Maths past paper. However everyone wants the benefits of...
Streaks
Today’s the 11th year in a row of daily posts on this blog. Nearly 5,000,000 words since my first post twenty years ago, and I haven’t missed a day (given some time-zone wiggle room) since 2008. Streaks are their own reward. Streaks create internal pressure that keeps...
Daily practice makes perfect. Daily rituals to support.
Before we introduce the daily rituals, let's just do a quick recap of the number of hours a typical HSC student's day to highlight the importance of planning out each of these precious hours. 9 hours for sleep 7 hours for school 1 hour for travel time 3 hours...
The 6 skills required for HSC success
Here at HSC CoWorks we live and breathe our Key Behaviours no matter our role in the company and whether we are studying or not. Why? Because these 6 behaviours when understood and adopted are a game changer no matter our task or path. Let us ask you a question. How...
Your Brain’s Influence On Study Habits and Exam Performance
Avoiding the tasks you need to do? Procrastinating after working for only 5 minutes? Difficulty in trying & implementing new study strategies? These are all very common issues and complaints occur for all of us from one time or another. Learning...
So what is grit and why is it one of the key ingredients for success?
Have you ever stopped to wonder what sets truly successful people apart from the rest? When contemplating those key people with their stand out vision, drive and success, what was it that gave them the edge? People such as Elon Musk who has started building rocket...
