#hsc studyblr

[thenocturnalscholar]

just meal prepped for tomorrow! reminder that nutrition is INCREDIBLY important to performing well in your studies. i honestly wasn’t a big believer in it at first but now that i’ve began to incorporate more protein, fruits and veg into my diet i’ve been able to concentrate way better and i have way more energy! if anyones interested i might post some tips i’ve found useful 👀 👀

[deadfor7yrs]

me studying for trials: FLASHCARDS STUDY HEAD DOWN WRITE WRITE WRITE PRACTISE MEMORISE ACTIVE RECALL

me the day before the hsc starts: hm i guess i should do a practice paper… but do i really want to though

[ren-studys]

six days until the english exam and i am stressing

[studyspiration-coffee]

Hello, I have emerged (maybe?). I’m going into my final year of uni (first class tomorrow) and procrastinating on constitutional law readings.

PM me/send me an ask if you have any uni/law/academics questions, I’d love to be of assistance your honour

[thatdeshigirl]

the fact that my exams finish on the 8th and then i have boards again from the 30th for like 2 months and AFTER THAT i have to prep for my admissions

[saphosticated]

The discursive essay.

I announce it to the class like some foul beast that lurks in the peeling paint on our classroom rafters. Feet shuffle. Eyes avert. But I still start my usual spiel.

The discursive essay is the best type of writing that I will be allowed to teach you during the entire HSC. But, I won’t give you a scaffold. I won’t give you letters like PEEL or PETAL or TEEL to clutch like a life-raft. Instead I will give you freedom.

Sure, you’ll have a prompt. But you can interpret it any way that you want. You can use any techniques. You can discuss anything that interests you. You can have an entire paragraph made up of rhetorical questions and still get a band 6. (Trust me, I’ve seen it)

You can write imaginatively, add in some poetry. Experiment with spacing. Use your punctuation for effect. If you want to write about anxiety (or maybe you’re just overthinking it. Again) you certainly can.

It’s your opportunity to throw away the rules and use your voice. Make allusions to the things you know. The things you care about. Link them to your studies. Make me want to keep reading.

Were Machiavelli’s observations of Florentine society and politics decidedly Lady Whistledown’ish. Maybe you want to see if your reader can decipher the difference between a Taylor Swift lyric and a Shakespeare quote.

Make links between your texts and current events. Maybe it is stupid that you sit in a classroom while the person next to you complains that we have no air conditioning so they won’t do their work, but children are being bombed in Gaza and their schools are now empty mouths in the ground and empty mouths not being fed because of the blockade.

Maybe we taught you too well to follow the rules.

To use your scaffolds.

To tie together your five paragraph essays with overly crafted thesis statements.

To use connectives for your ideas

To analyse the techniques.

To repeat what you’ve been taught.

So much that freedom feels overwhelming. It feels dangerous. This unknown text-type that lurks in the shadows and does not get the love it deserves.

But,

Once you start looking. It’s everywhere. It’s the opinion editorial, it’s the recent personal essay written by Lizzo and published on Tumblr (Go read it, it’s fantastic), it’s blog posts, and travel guides and anywhere that someone is sharing their ideas and their story however they want without trying to persuade you.

It’s the antithesis to AI. It’s the combinations and connections and personal style and voice that only you have. It’s uniquely human, and like the dragon in Shrek. You do not need to be afraid of it.

[lettis-novaturient]

100 days of productivity

yawn ok so im gonna be bringing this back because i failed to finish it last time side-eyes me two years ago so lets see if i can actually get to the end of the 100 days this time :)

[jumwa-the-cryptid]

School Printer Appreciation Post

Towards the end of like term 3 I think, when I started printing out practise exams I got so obsessed with the engineering of our school printers. I found out that you can have the file print out in A3 with the pages arranged like a book so you just fold the thing in half once it finishes printing but what I REALLY LOVED WAS THAT IT COULD ALSO STAPLE THE BOOK FOR YOU

We used to have printers that'd look a little something like this, and they were a bit funky to navigate if you wanted to do more than printing, such as scanning, emailing what you scanned, copying, upscaling. You'd get the hang of it though if you poked around with it's capabilities.

There were a few printers around the school, but the one accessible to all students was in the Resource Centre (sometimes we call it the RC, but it's pretty much our library (also our school LOVES abbreviations)). There's a printer in the year 9 centre if you can't be bothered walking to the other side of campus. Sometimes the teacher will just tell you to go to the RC, sometimes your lucky, and sometimes you're a yr. 12 with what I like to call, "jacket privilege". There's a printer in D-block, but that's the senior's domain. Aaaand there's also a printer in a building we call the DATS (Design, Art, Tech, Sci), but I swear the only people that use it are art students, teachers, and students printing stuff out last minute lol. Usually this printer takes the longest to walk to, thus it became ✨ forgotten coloured printer ✨ So pretty much we'd exclusively use the printers one in the RC, HOWEVER, there were two printers, one for black and white and the other in colour. You'd think they'd be labelled, but it was not explicit as to which was which. I swear we used the printers way more in junior years than in senior years (until we start printing out practise exams/sacs lmao) and our brains aren't fully matured, we weren't very smart 😭 So we'd send something for printing and maybe you'll forget to configure the file to print in colour so you'd walk all the way back to class just to print it again in colour, and then you print it from the wrong printer, and then you've spent a majority of the lesson trying to print a damn file, when we could've just brought our school laptop with us the first time. Honestly, looking back I think I intellectually levelled up when I brought my USB to print also USB compatibility!!!!! genius! ~ Being the only coloured printer there was often a line. It was fun listening to wacky yr. 12 conversations I remember when the printer ran out of ink and we were DEVASTATED. One of the students part of the class in the library told us to go to the DATS printer, and so we did. Not only was there a line, but an art teacher I didn't know very well at the time (now I call her art mum 😊) was printing out a big batch for her class 🙃 ~ Eventually we noticed that the coloured printer has colourful fishies on the wall above it. Not that difficult to remember, so it was fun helping other people with this fun tip :) ~ Our new printers look like this! And I love them. They look nice and easy to work with 😁 I think this the right model. There were some models with different names that looked exactly the same to me

Took me a while to figure out where to tap my card. A very subtle design :O It was WAY easier to navigate. What I found cool with the new printers was that it allowed you to adjust to saturation of your prints, whether it was in colour or in black and white. Most importantly ALL OF THEM had coloured ink What everyone else’s experience with their school printers?

[outstandinglemons]

school pants xx

ugh school uniforms suck. i get it girl. but..... heres some cutie ideas for pants when you don't wanna wear an ass out mini skirt!!!!

more below !!!

[exemplia]

100 DAYS OF PRODUCTIVITY [2/100] 11.10.19

decided to start a studyblr to hopefully whip my academics into shape for the final year of high school! 

[studitiious]

i lost my 2018 journal, so am making do with this notebook until the new year!

[thenocturnalscholar]

i’ll be lying awake at night stressing out over grades only to remember my friend was the 2022 dux of his high school just because he was literally the only person in the graduating class

[alittlesucculentstudies-blog]

hey everyone, I am finally back (with a really terrible picture to start us off) 

This year has been hectic and I feel like I lost so much of myself and of this community because of it, but I’m feeling so much better and I am back!

Prelim exams are this week and next week and it’s pretty crazy

[eostudies-blog]

20.12.17- holiday study 

I went to the local library today and picked up some HSC resource books. I'm so excited to read through the showcase book and get some ideas for my own english extension 2 project. 🌻 

 What are your holiday study plans? Send me a message / ask if you need help building a study plan! ✨

[littlestudyblrblog]

good luck, year 12!

to all of my followers who are starting year 12, term 1 today- good luck! year 12 is a big year but one you can 100% get through; be organised, help each other and have fun!!

[crimstudies]

19 / 100 days of productivity

17 june, 2017

haven’t done days of productivity since last exam period! exams and assessments are coming up soon so i’ll probably be more active with productivity for the next 2 weeks. can’t wait until break! then i’ll be in japan.