Class of 2025 (2025 HSC CHAT) (8 Viewers)

[Kat.crazi]

Which is more effective: memorising all content and then beginning past papers once confident or just doing past papers and learning as u go?
(for subjects like bio)

 

[C2H6O]

Which is more effective: memorising all content and then beginning past papers once confident or just doing past papers and learning as u go?
(for subjects like bio)

I’d alternate past papers then studying content that I miss in the paper but I don’t do bio. That’s what I try to do for chem though

 

[lesqx]

I literally just relied on Powerful Geography 2 textbook and Global Interactions textboom and basically sumarised with reference to the syllabus. The skills (mainly multiple choice) has not really been impacted/changed by the new syllabus so past syllabus papers for skills will still be relevant. There is a sample exam on the geography syllabus page, CSSA and Independent both made geo trial exams this year, so maybe ask your teacher if they can purchase either (if you did one of them, buy the other). I think some companies also have recently released summary books based off the new syllabus. For me, I've just been doing mindmaps, making essay plans for different scenarios, and just memorisiing my case studies with statistics, e.c.t. Also, my teacher is saying that since NESA is really pushing this notion of suatainability to be the main driving force of the new syllabus, if I were you, I would be putting a few of the UN Sustainability Goals (UNSDG's) into your mind in regards to your case studies, as I bet markers will be eating that up if you include them, especially for your Global Sustainability case study, as that will back up your points. Make sure you are able to coherently and concisely sum up each of your case studies into its location, spatial pattern, character and linkages - by having a template for these five ideas, you can optimise your exam time, as you don't have to struggle in the exam to condense such broad topics into a few sentences, allowing you to focus more on the main part of your responses; your explainations and examples. For the Section III structured extended response and Section IV standalone extended response, one will be on Ecosystems and Global Biodiversity and the other on Rural and Urban Places (GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY WILL NEVER BE THE CORE MODULE IN EITHER SECTION III OR IV). If you are aiming to well, make sure you are referring to geographic terminology:
Ecosystems and Global Biodiversity:

• Biomass
• Ecological integrity
• Vulnerability
• Resilience
• Dynamic Equilibrium

Rural and Urban Places

• Settlement patterns; dispersed, nucleated or linear
• Settlement heirarchy
• Urbinisation
• Interdependence on rural and urban places
• Sphere of influence (i.e. How significant?)
• Demographics

Basically, just know all your case studies in enough detail to be able to write up to 20 marks worth of an extended response (could be broken up into parts if in section III)

Have some essay plans ready, noting that answering the question doesn't require as much 'flair' compared to other essay subjects such as English; GET TO THE POINT! Make sure you include the location and spatial data as unlike other subjects, the case studies are not drawn from a specific elective (that means that in theory, every single school could be studying different places/case studies - which means that the marker may not know your particular case study in a lot of depth as it definitely won't be a teacher from your school who is marking your exam - HELP THEM OUT! LET THEM GIVE YOU THE MARKS!)

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Yooo wow thanks so much for this, will definitely help me out!
Gl in your geo exam!

 

[reniiiblaseee]

how are u guys currently studying for english

 

[Kat.crazi]

I'm not....
Going to fix up my essays tonight tho cuz i wanna try get them all as close to 20 as possible
and I'll write a discursive later this week since I STILL don't have one

 

[Test Username]

how are u guys currently studying for english

given up, literally just memorising

 

[tropics...]

guys i wanna cry i ranked 100/140 for math... but im doing 11 units so hopefully only one unit will count UGHHH idek how i did so bad average for y class was 35% LOL

 

[hellokitty48920]

guys i wanna cry i ranked 100/140 for math... but im doing 11 units so hopefully only one unit will count UGHHH idek how i did so bad average for y class was 35% LOL

): its okay, how are ur ranks in ur other subjects??

 

[Study to success]

guys is year 12 bio like sooo much more interesting than year 11 (pls say yes)

 

[hellokitty48920]

guys is year 12 bio like sooo much more interesting than year 11 (pls say yes)

yes from what ive heard!! (lol I dropped it )

 

[Hehehe22]

guys is year 12 bio like sooo much more interesting than year 11 (pls say yes)

Uh it depends on what ur interested in, but generally there's a lot more content, so you'd surely at least find parts of it interesting

Personally, mod 8 was pretty interesting while mod 6 was a bit of a drag, esp with all the memorisation of biotech

 

[Study to success]

what do u guys think was the most boring mod in year 11. mod 4 was so boring and it felt like it was geo and earth science mashed together

 

[Hehehe22]

what do u guys think was the most boring mod in year 11. mod 4 was so boring and it felt like it was geo and earth science mashed together

Ngl mod 3 was pretty bad, but I kinda blurred all the yr 11 content together by now so I don't remember the exact topics in each mod

 

[its_ace21]

Uh it depends on what ur interested in, but generally there's a lot more content, so you'd surely at least find parts of it interesting

Personally, mod 8 was pretty interesting while mod 6 was a bit of a drag, esp with all the memorisation of biotech

i prefered the opposite i loved mod 6 but hated mod 8

 

[Kat.crazi]

what do u guys think was the most boring mod in year 11. mod 4 was so boring and it felt like it was geo and earth science mashed together

I don’t even remember cuz I crammed everything brushhsdhfh

 

[Study to success]

I don’t even remember cuz I crammed everything brushhsdhfh

lol that's like me with sac. Like ask me what topics I'm tested on tmrw and I have no clue which topic we did when

 

[Hehehe22]

i prefered the opposite i loved mod 6 but hated mod 8

No wayyyy well I suppose the mutations were interesting to learn about, I just hated the amount of detail we had to memorise biotech case studies to, and all the repetitive evaluative questions

I liked mod 8 a lot because it was very cool to take a deeper dive into the human body and it's processes (although I just remembered that epidemiology is mod 8 and that stuff is fun to learn about but rlly annoying to study o_o)

 

[Kat.crazi]

lol that's like me with sac. Like ask me what topics I'm tested on tmrw and I have no clue which topic we did when

real I didn’t know what mod was which for Eng advanced until like the week before

 

[Kat.crazi]

Personally I hate Mod 8
(It’s actually really interesting I just don’t know anything bc we didn’t have to do it for trials so now I have to study it from scratch )

 

[its_ace21]

No wayyyy well I suppose the mutations were interesting to learn about, I just hated the amount of detail we had to memorise biotech case studies too, and all the repetitive evaluative questions

I liked mod 8 a lot because it was very cool to take a deeper dive into the human body and it's processes

i find memorising things is easier for me. For mod 8 u need to actually understand and I found that rlly hard (i suck at science)