Hey everyone welcome back to lisa's study guides i'm here today with tim you guys have probably
watched a few of these type of videos before if not i'll make sure to put them down in description
below but i love to just bring on board some of the lsg tutors that we've got just to chat with
them about their vc experience so i guess take it away tim let everyone know a little bit about
yourself yeah so i graduated in 2018 with a 95.3 ATAR congrats so thank you i guess just launched
straight into it like what were the things that you specifically did to prepare for these exams
apart from what you do throughout the year which is definitely keep notes well-read do your
homework or extra study whatever you feel like helps you throughout the year yeah by the time
you get to the end of the year for me at least you should know everything yeah so by the time it got
to swap back all i was doing was practice exams practice essays practice questions for all of my
subjects and that was to me the easiest way to get everything exactly how i needed it to be for the
exam was doing the exam over and over again so by the time i got to swap back i had my notes and i
could find anything in my notes very quickly yeah so then all i had to do was commit that to memory
and know how to use it in an exam context ah how prepared did you feel for your exam it's always
that kind of thing where you're sitting outside the exam room you're like you're prepared and
then you sit down at the exam and you're like i'm not prepared so it's sort of like it's a mix of
what you think you know and what you decide last minute you don't know yeah so i think when i was
studying i was like yeah i know this i know this i don't need to revise this i know this but then
you get to the exam and you sit down and you sort of think i don't know this yeah then you start
the exam and you realize you do not so for me it was kind of like a whole process of i know and i
don't know what i know what i don't know it but the thing was i did so much revision beforehand
doing those extra essays practice questions stuff even if i didn't feel confident i did know it all
which is sort of the frame of mind i feel like you want to be in it's i'm not sure i'm confident
with it i maybe could have done a little bit more yeah but i still know it all so you've had this
tandem of i do know it i don't know i do not i don't know which sounds kind of stressful and
yeah it is so for me probably from like year nine onwards i never really had an issue with it before
but then i started to get exam anxiety it was something i didn't have for things like in class
and doing homework and everything that didn't stress me out i felt like i knew that but then
all of a sudden you sit down or you're waiting for the exam to start and you just get really anxious
and really nervous yeah so for me it was probably over like three years i had to sort of find a way
to get out of that sitting in the exam and all of a sudden getting anxious and forgetting everything
you know because that's the worst thing you can do is know everything but forget it because you're
stressed out in the air absolutely yeah so for me it was kind of like because my school did a
lot of practice exams from year 7 even so i sort of had time to figure out a process to
cope with that anxiety so for me it was like i came up with an exam ritual so when i would sit
down in the exam i would put my pens in the top i put my id in the top right i would have everything
laid out i'll read the front of the paper yeah and i was like okay i'm not even going to think
about what questions could possibly be in this i'm going to read the instructions on the front of the
page even though i've read them a hundred times before i know when i'm allowed in the exam but i'm
going to read it again anyway yeah and that was just the easiest way for me to focus and be like
okay an exam i know yeah pay attention to what's on the paper right now no that's awesome i feel
like i also had a similar ritual i had you know my water bottle that i put over here i had my pencil
case or the clear pencil case whatever it is that you put over here there's something sort of once
it becomes routine then there's obviously like less stress that's involved in that so i guess
it's really awesome that you did that i guess going off that like what advice do you have for
students who are going into their exam going into your exams obviously focus on what you don't know
more than what you do know which and part of that is understanding everything throughout the year so
looking back at what sacks did i do better on than other sacks and saying that can wait till later
often what you don't know will be the stuff that you did during transition or at the start of the
year so you're not three stuff you generally want to start with in revision yeah and then as
on top of that you should have your notes already done which means that you should be able to use
the information you have your teachers will give you loads of information throughout the year and a
lot of it will seem pointless and annoying and way too much to go through yeah so what you need to do
during swap back and preparing for your exams is to narrow that down and say what can i actually
use what is useful because you need to be able to analyze it evaluate the information that you think
of it so knowing all that information it's not all necessary most of the time but knowing how to use
it is a lot more important yeah i love that i love that and that's sort of like if we bring
it back to english which i guess is what we do you can know about the text and you can know the
characters and know the themes but it's about how you execute it thank you so much everyone
for watching thank you tim for coming on board if you guys have any questions that you'd like
to ask tim don't hesitate to put them down in the comment section below and we'll make sure that we
get back to you and otherwise i hope you guys have an awesome day and see you next time bye
you