key behaviour journey 🏔️
EMPOWER YOUR FUTURE
The HSC CoWorks program is designed to cultivate skills that extend far beyond the HSC, setting you on a trajectory for success in both your HSC and life after school. Develop critical thinking, time management, and resilience that lasts a lifetime.
We liken the challenge of the HSC to climbing a mountain, Mount HSC©, and through the consistent application of key behaviours all the way to the top of the mountain students will conquer their Mount HSC.
Conquering Mount HSC has little to do with ‘intelligence’ or being ‘smart’ but everything to do with how we take on the challenge that the HSC is. To conquer this challenge (and all subsequent challenges) students are going to need to be motivated, organised, consistent in their efforts, willing to push outside of their comfort zone, resilient in the face of set backs and challenges and most importantly willing to take responsibility for the results they want to achieve. Without the key behaviours students will struggle to climb the mountain and take the challenge on.
Find out how we support students develop these behaviours in the videos below.
Key Behaviour 1
Engage your Vision
Your HSC Vision is the future you want to create through your HSC and includes all of your goals, the rewards, the feelings and the benefits that will come from making your HSC vision your HSC reality. This is the first and most important student key behaviour as it provides the fuel to complete the subsequent 5 key behaviours and get the job done.
Staying connected with your goals is crucial for maintaining the drive and motivation to study. Without this connection, tasks may seem meaningless and it becomes easy to lose momentum get distracted and procrastinate tasks.
Through your consistent engagement with your vision you will also be developing a critical attribute that all successful HSC students and all successful people have… and that quality is, persistence.
Key Behaviour 2
plan
Every student starts the HSC year with the same number of hours and days in the year ahead, however it is the students who utilise this limited time most effectively that will remain in control of their HSC campaign and achieve their best possible results.
Being a strong planner requires students to be proactive, break tasks down into smaller chunks and take consistent action to complete these smaller chunks to ensure they don’t become overwhelmed as the due date or exam gets closer.
Three key points when it comes to being a successful planner in your HSC year?
🐸 EAT FROGS FIRST
🏆 GET PROACTIVE
📝 BREAK TASKS DOWN
Key Behaviour 3
Train Daily
Top HSC students know the foundational content that makes up each of their subjects inside out. Top HSC students are not vague or uncertain around their foundational content, their brain is ‘fired and wired’ and ready to go. In order to train your brain with the content, skills and confidence you will need to perform in the exam room it is critical that you incorporate exercises into your daily routine to hardwire the content.
Getting highly familiar with your subject content (quotes, techniques, facts, formulas, definitions) is your responsibility and if you are serious about a great HSC result, daily revision is required. The neuroscience of daily repetition outlines that our brains strengthen neural pathways each time we perform an action or recall information. making it easier for us to retrieve or perform it (i.e in an exam room environment when time is critical).
Key Behaviour 4
Push your Comfort zone
‘Without struggle there is no progress’.
As humans, it is natural that we gravitate towards comfortable and familiar behaviours; this inclination is not simply psychological but is rooted in our early survival instincts. While the comfort zone provides a sense of security and routine, it limits growth and skill development, especially when it comes to preparing for the exam room.
Top HSC students will spend the majority of their study time pushing their comfort zone to expand their capabilities and skills so that they are ready for any and every question. They have prepared their brain for the challenges of the exam room by operating outside of their comfort zone on a regular basis.
By operating outside of your comfort zone you will foster resilience, cultivate a growth mindset, and enhance your problem-solving capabilities.
Key Behaviour 5
Grit
It’s not intelligence or talent that brings success, but the determination to overcome challenges, maintain focus, and relentlessly pursue goals.
Grit is your passion and perseverance towards achieving your goals. Whether you are trying to conquer your HSC, finish your University degree, build a business or climb the corporate ladder, it is your Grit that will allow you to rise above.
If you are to achieve your goals in life you must stay committed to your vision, day by day, week by week, month by month and know that every setback, obstacle, challenge and mistake along the way is an opportunity to learn how to do it differently so you can achieve the result you desire.
It is inevitable that at stages along your HSC journey you will have setbacks, obstacles and challenges to overcome. You will not want to put in the work some days, your motivation may be low or you may receive marks you’re not happy with. In these situations you need to apply your ‘Grit’.
Key Behaviour 6
Own it
There is only one person who can make an HSC Vision into an HSC reality and that of course is you!
You can go to the best school, have the best teachers and attend HSC CoWorks but if you don’t take responsibility for making it happen then it simply won’t happen. By taking responsibility for your own results you are in the driver’s seat of your HSC campaign and by the time you start University you will be ready for the additional responsibility.
Without taking full responsibility for achieving your goals it is inevitable that excuses and blame will be a part of your HSC campaign. Blame and excuses are the enemy of progress because they are giving control of your results to external factors. ‘My teacher doesn’t like me’, ‘I didn’t have enough time’, ‘it’s not fair’, ‘it’s so boring’, ‘I need to play video games to relax’, ‘I need to finish my notes before I can start the assessment task’. If this sounds like you, then it might be time to re-position your approach to your HSC Year. If you want to improve your results you will need to lose your excuses.
