Yeah I did ok but it wasn't my best. Most of my assessments were only worth 15%, with maths extension only 10%. I was really nervous in my maths exams (especially due to the thought that it was my first HSC assessment), and as a result, I kind of screwed up.
But I've got this strong desire to improve heaps; I'm doing practice maths trial exams etc. I'm not one of those people who can work solidly for 2-3 weeks, so I'm doing a little bit each day. If you achieve small goals, it makes you feel so much better than failing to do big goals.
I really need to bring my marks up for the half yearlies.
^THIS is what I experienced!! I only had 2 assessments for my first term of year 12.
Legal Studies- 63%
Modern History- 76%
Those are really average marks, and my rankings were pretty average too. I had the same issue too, where the stress of it being a HSC assessment really got to me. It was only made worse by the fact that in Year 11 i was ranked in the top 5 for both Legal and Modern.
I honestly put in a lot of study for both those exams and got pretty crap marks from it, so of course that frustrated me. I think I agree with a lot of people that Year 11 really exhausted me. I'm not trying to gloat at all, but I really put a lot of work into my subjects and got pretty solid results out of it. So of course, once it came time to my HSC assessments, I was both mentally drained and extremely nervous to do well.
Has anyone got any ideas of how to overcome this anxiety/nervous-ness I get when its assessment time? I put in the work needed, but just seem to lose it all under the pressure of having to do well.
Just hope these summer holidays will allow me to relax, refocus and get work done properly.
Merry christmas everyone!