Originally posted by utopian731
It was that bad for you Christine? I know im prolly in the minority here, but i was less and less stressed as the year went by and started goin out more and more as the exams approached
weird huh
That sorta happened to me too! The day of my English half-yearly (so what was that, like early April or something) I got so sick with stress, and actually had to leave the exam room to throw up. From there my stress levels rose and fell, usually in line with my assessment schedule, but as the year went on I could feel myself loosening up. The lowest point for me was about June, and strangely enough it was my Modern History teacher that helped me through that by keeping it real - i.e. when other teachers were getting uptight about the HSC, he just said to me "Go home, watch TV, whatever, but DO NOT study tonight"...so I did that every now and then (when I felt I was able to) and I have to say that it really helped...
I made it through Trials OK, even though I did have 6 exams in 5 days, and then looked towards the HSC...while some of my friends were studying 6 - 11 hours a day during the October holidays, each day I did like 4 or 5 hours at most and also went out and had a good time...I'd be lying if I said I didn't get anxious the morning of each HSC exam but it was nothing compared to what I was like in April...I just accepted that whatever happened, happened and there wasn't much else I could do about it...
So that's my deep and long-winded account...my advice would be to really think about what you want to get out of your final year at school, and don't drop everything for the HSC...keep playing sport, dancing, whatever keeps you sane...personally I think I made too many sacrifices in the first 6 months of the year all for the sake of the HSC and now I'm not so sure it was worth it...
Then again, I may not speak so positively about my relaxed attitude when Dec 19th rolls around...I could very well be like "Damn! Should've studied more!"...ah well, it's my 18th birthday that day, I'll be too drunk to care!
By the way, on the topic of amount of units, I did 10...never even contemplated doing more...
