As your final term of school begins you should be spending much of your time preparing for your HSC PDHPE trial exam. Your trial is likely to be worth around 30% of your submitted school grade and can often seem daunting. Trial exams are often the most difficult exams you will do in your HSC. [...]
One of the reasons I so highly recommend flashcards to my students is because flashcards are self-testing. What I mean by this, is that, when used correctly, flashcards are essentially a method to continually test your brains ability to recall information. This recall of information is exactly what you are required to do in [...]
Flashcards allow deeper thinking to occur, and for this thinking to occur more quickly. Previously I wrote an article looking at how flashcards help improve memory by moving content into long-term memory and strengthening neural pathways for faster recall. When information shifts into your long-term memory it shifts out of your working memory. This [...]
At a very basic level flashcards improve memory of content. The frequent exposure to the content that comes with the use of flashcards enables this to occur. For me, going to my flashcards every week and working my way through the pile until I could remember it all was providing me with frequent exposure and [...]
Flashcards are all about rote learning, so why would anyone recommend them as a study method? There is good reason for using flashcards, and over the next 3 weeks I will tell you exactly why I use and recommend flashcards in this flashcards series of posts. Over these weeks I want to convince you that you [...]
It is never to late to achieve in the HSC, but it takes hard work and dedication. In the midst of trials and with the HSC exams coming next term, you can still do well, you can still achieve in the HSC and in PDHPE, you just have to get going. When I completed my HSC, [...]
The best way to structure your study is to follow the structure of the HSC PDHPE exam. The HSC PDHPE exam and the BOSTES PDHPE syllabus follow the same structure: 30% per core module and 20% per option. This means in your exam Health Priorities is worth 30 marks, as is Factors Affecting Performance, and [...]
This may sound like common sense, but 1 thing I highly recommend as people approach exams is that they revise a lot. Obviously the more study you do before an exam the better your result is going to be, but when I say revise a lot, I don't mean spend lots of time studying (though the more [...]
In order to succeed in HSC PDHPE you need to submit work regularly. And the more you submit work and the more frequent it is, the more likely you are to succeed. There are three (3) main ways to submit work frequently: Submit Drafts Many students leave completing their assessment tasks to the last week before they [...]
In order to succeed in HSC PDHPE you need to rest well. You need to rest well not just the night before exams, or during the holidays, but the whole way through the HSC year. Firstly, to rest well you need sleep. Your brain and your body needs good amounts of sleep in order to function [...]