An amazing video Julian. I do have a question to ask though, if I study for my exams I want to be prioritising my time for those top 4 subjects, which for me include English and Psychology. However, I don't want to disregard math methods either, but it is just a few days after the psychology exam this year which means that I have to split up my time. How would you recommend doing this so I can prioritise my top 4, especially psychology, while not leaving maths behind. Thanks.
Thanks for the great question! This was something that I had to think about a lot as well. From my experience, I believe that it's not required to spend the same amount of time per subject - since everyone has different strengths and strategies for VCE. My recommendation is to try and study for 2-3 subjects per day - as opposed to only doing one subject per day or all your subjects per day. Now these 2-3 subjects don't have to be fixed, but the purpose is that every ~2 days or so we can go over all your subjects - this prevents us from leaving one subject behind (in this case maths). Now when I studied, I tend to spend more time on English since I knew this must be in my top 4 and so would offer the greatest return on my time investment. And if you are sure that psychology will be in your top 4, then the same logic applies - just make sure that the difference in time is not too drastic, I still spent a decent amount of time for subjects that I considered to be in my bottom 2(and this is for the simple reason that we cannot know for sure what will be in our bottom 2) And finally to address the concern of not leaving maths behind, focus on getting the most marks you can on the final exam - this means mastering skill-based questions (those that are relatively easy and only testing one skill), and skipping extremely difficult application questions (those that have many parts - but for these questions try and complete the first few parts since they are relatively easier, its usually only the last few parts that are extremely challenging). This way you can maximise your marks for the methods exam. Hope this helps :)
Hey Julian, what are your steps/procedure for creating a plan during an English exam. Also how do u go about making detailed skeletons for English essays. I've heard you talk about it a couple of times but not really sure how to go about it:)
So overall, my detailed skeleton plans contains: contention + 3 topic sentences + quotes I am going to use in each paragraph. And a bit contrary to common practice, I try to come up with my 3 topic sentences for each of my body paragraphs first - this way I know what I will be talking about for my entire essay. Then based on these 3 topic sentences I form my contention which is my overall stance on the topic. And finally, I add 3-4 quotes per paragraph and roughly how I would analyse them (brief 1-sentence analysis). And for your reference, there was a sample skeleton plan mentioned at the start of this video: ruclips.net/video/CL8CcMkx6Bw/видео.html
You're carrying me and my mates. Thank you heaps!!!
Thank you so much William :)) All the best for you (and your mates) on your VCE journey!
been watching so many diff vids,
this was the one that made me finally put it to work
when you said studying 4 hours a day.
thank you so much.
I love your analogies!! These videos are really helpful ^^
Glad you like them!
I love your work my man
Thanks Joey, hope your year is going well!
An amazing video Julian. I do have a question to ask though, if I study for my exams I want to be prioritising my time for those top 4 subjects, which for me include English and Psychology. However, I don't want to disregard math methods either, but it is just a few days after the psychology exam this year which means that I have to split up my time. How would you recommend doing this so I can prioritise my top 4, especially psychology, while not leaving maths behind. Thanks.
Thanks for the great question! This was something that I had to think about a lot as well. From my experience, I believe that it's not required to spend the same amount of time per subject - since everyone has different strengths and strategies for VCE.
My recommendation is to try and study for 2-3 subjects per day - as opposed to only doing one subject per day or all your subjects per day. Now these 2-3 subjects don't have to be fixed, but the purpose is that every ~2 days or so we can go over all your subjects - this prevents us from leaving one subject behind (in this case maths).
Now when I studied, I tend to spend more time on English since I knew this must be in my top 4 and so would offer the greatest return on my time investment. And if you are sure that psychology will be in your top 4, then the same logic applies - just make sure that the difference in time is not too drastic, I still spent a decent amount of time for subjects that I considered to be in my bottom 2(and this is for the simple reason that we cannot know for sure what will be in our bottom 2)
And finally to address the concern of not leaving maths behind, focus on getting the most marks you can on the final exam - this means mastering skill-based questions (those that are relatively easy and only testing one skill), and skipping extremely difficult application questions (those that have many parts - but for these questions try and complete the first few parts since they are relatively easier, its usually only the last few parts that are extremely challenging). This way you can maximise your marks for the methods exam.
Hope this helps :)
Hey Julian, what are your steps/procedure for creating a plan during an English exam. Also how do u go about making detailed skeletons for English essays. I've heard you talk about it a couple of times but not really sure how to go about it:)
So overall, my detailed skeleton plans contains: contention + 3 topic sentences + quotes I am going to use in each paragraph.
And a bit contrary to common practice, I try to come up with my 3 topic sentences for each of my body paragraphs first - this way I know what I will be talking about for my entire essay. Then based on these 3 topic sentences I form my contention which is my overall stance on the topic. And finally, I add 3-4 quotes per paragraph and roughly how I would analyse them (brief 1-sentence analysis).
And for your reference, there was a sample skeleton plan mentioned at the start of this video: ruclips.net/video/CL8CcMkx6Bw/видео.html
Just did my gat today
Congrats! Hope it went well :)