2026 HSC CHAT (8 Viewers)

[f7eeting]

can I get a 70 atar with minimal study. If I half wing exams surely it'll be fine right

did something happen?

 

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did something happen?

im to depressed to put an actual effort into studying so im just trying to reassure myself that even if I do fail all my half yearlies it will be fine. Also I've had a second thought of career options and do I really wanna do design. I wanna do something like businessy/ media, marketing stuff more tbh and design will probably make me unemployed. I mean I can always do design as a side thing and run a business

 

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Always better to aim higher though

yeah I'll see if my mental health permits this

 

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cause if I don't find any fulfilment in studying, any purpose in it, then how am I gonna find any motivation. All of my efforts will be pointless and just be liek filling empty vessels that won't do anything in my life. I don't think I've understood how depressed it's made me until it all came crashing down today and all these emotions that have accumulated over the months has finally hit me

 

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I need something to look forward to and the things I wanna do now, I wanna make it useful for the future and actually align with what I wanna do rather than chasing for an ATAR that will be useless for what I wanna do in the future

 

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ive made my whole life about atar, studying and I need a piece of my life back. tbh the joy, the dreams I had liek during hte holidays when studying wasn't taking up my time and thoughts, actually gave me hope and direction in my life. I need this piece of my life back

 

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True but you'll have to balance it. You can't just ("give up") on this basis

I mean I won't fully give up cause ive def given up numerous times but then for some reason I still started trying again but I won't be making studying my whole life. Like I wanna work more on my passion projects and planning my future endeavours

 

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Even if that's what you really want to do don't slack off until you get accepted into early entry. I think the issues with all this grinding & cramming come with bad planning. Ofc in a time like now you'll start to rethink the worth of doing this all but you must push through it and not let these mistakes repeat themselves

yeah I won't completely slack off. But also my mental health is like deteoriating so much so like idk how to balance all this and it's making things worse. The reason why I ahve to cram was cause of my mental health and I wanted ot lock in but things are just getting so tough I physically cannot

 

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Its very possible to do both though

ik but along with juggling my mental health I can't. But I will be forced to do both tho so that I don't get like n awards from my teachers. But I just need to take a step back and reconsider what I wanna do and what im doing all of this for

 

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Even if that's what you really want to do don't slack off until you get accepted into early entry. I think the issues with all this grinding & cramming come with bad planning. Ofc in a time like now you'll start to rethink the worth of doing this all but you must push through it and not let these mistakes repeat themselves

the thing is it's just a negative cycle just repeating myself. Cause each time I get more defeated, I just become more and more unprepared. It's almost like I care less and less each time evne tho it should be the opposite. Like my school has made us do so many fo these exams that I no longer find them scary and it's jsut like another practice task basiclaly and it makes me care less and less cause I don't see the use of all fo this

 

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You could.... See the councillor? Or you may benefit from planning some fun stuff on the holidays with some friends to get your mind away from all of this. Say, take week 1 as a proper rest and scale up the effort again week 2.

the councillor honestly isn't really that good and ive heard many bad stories about it. Also I dont' feel like spilling my guts out to these people and I'd rather find a psych that I could actually properly open up to and like be more comfortable around. But obv my parents won't understand and won't approve of this soo

 

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Like you had said before, you could push to get a diagnosis for ADHD? I think even getting your parents to call the school, they would be able to change a few things here and there to make the experience slightly less worse

they dont think there's anything wrong with me. They dismiss everything. Like once I said I think im iron deficient and they were like no ur not and were almost making fun of me. Also I feel like I can concentrate when it comes to things I enjoy but school work I jsut can't. Im the type of person that's like if I love what Im doing I will put my whole heart and soul into it. If I don't then I won't gaf

 

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also I don't want my mental health to be an extra liability for my parents cause their already complaining about finances and the state of the economy and I dont' think they think mental health is an investment even tho all my problems are rooted from it

 

[beetard]

can I get a 70 atar with minimal study. If I half wing exams surely it'll be fine right

You sound like you're doing more than 'minimal studying' so yea

 

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You sound like you're doing more than 'minimal studying' so yea

no but genuinely I haven't even done like half teh amount of studying other peopel are doing and like I haven't even touched my other subjects

 

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Yes, I understand where you come from, even I was at that point. What are the subjects that are giving you problems?

its not even specific subjects. It's just everything in general and just managing the hsc. It's not that im struggling with any content it's just that studying is so hard

 

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Is there anything you find fun?

not really tbh. My major works are fun to some extent cause I actually get to choose what I do but then the deadlines I hate. but that's cause managing it with studying is hard. If all I did was major works I'd be fine

 

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Couldn't you alternate between major and normal subjects though? To somewhat give yourself something to look for?

the thing is I only do things in blocks of priorities so rn its half yearlies so I put my major works on the side or else I won't have time to study for all my half yearlies. But even then, major works are not something I look forward to but it's jsut something I'd rather do than study for exams

 

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The councillor if you have one? Ask them to give your parents a call. I don't really think anyone can refuse a claim like that

ykw if my mod c piece is concerning enough I think that will be enough

 

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You have to make use of what you have access to. Ig easy for me to say because my parents made me go there in year 10 and it wasn't that bad tbh

but idk if it will help. And plus evne if the school did call my parents I dont' think they'd do anything about it. like they just say dont' stress it's not the end of the world and that's it.