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How to Study in the VCE and ACE YOUR STUDIES

 

Amidst the treacherous journey of the VCE, it’s easy to lose sight of the final goal – that golden ATAR hiding somewhere beyond a vast chasm. Along the way, you have to balance being a student with deadlines with being a high school teen. In between catch ups and parties, SACs and Exams keep creeping closer, and if you aren’t on top of your studies, they can overwhelm you in an instant – setting you up for disaster in your future studies.

 

But – thankfully, there IS an easy way to get through it. It’s a method that’s been tried and tested by some of the highest achievers from past years, former students who like you endured the struggles of VCE and came out with the very best results. Here are their tips:

1. Plan ahead

This is the most practical approach to take back control of your revision. Get a calendar. Create a schedule. Talk to someone – our 50Tutors – to get their advice on how to plan your next few weeks and months ahead. Try to work on subjects in chunks, instead of switching back and forth. Of course – be flexible when executing the schedule. It’s perfectly normal to sometimes feel as though you might not want to do a particular subject that night – in which case, adapt the schedule so that you will get to it the next. Bold out the dates of your next assessments and set yourself goals. By breaking down the VCE into little, manageable bits, the study will get that much easier.

2. Work Smarter. Not Harder.  

This is probably a phrase you’ve heard before – maybe from teachers or from online – but here at 50Coach, it’s our core ethos. We love to tutor our students BEYOND the content and dot points and move into the strategies you can use. Instead of ROTE Learning, employ the power of Spaced Repetition. Instead of cramming last minute, space things out. Our list of 50Tips goes on – but the core of this second point is: don’t waste time cramming in inefficient ways, especially for irrelevant content. Study the VCE Study Designs and explore EXACTLY what you need to learn, then drill that precise amount of content.

3. Go offline

Obviously, this tip is bound to be the most unpopular – yet vitally the most effective. The number one distraction these days is undoubtedly the 5” device sitting in our pockets or next to us most of the time – the gateway to a world of Insta, Snap and TikTok. And sure – don’t get us wrong, those are truly divine gifts, but when you have a SAC coming up, the best way to study and the ONLY way to achieve the score you want is to switch off all distractions. Try using the physical math textbook instead of the digital PDF. Handwrite your notes instead of typing. Any way you can reasonably go offline to help prepare is bound to help you minimise distractions.

5. Reach out.

It’s true the VCE is tough on everyone to different degrees. There’s different subjects, schedules, rankings, standards, and experiences for every student – but at the same time, 40,000 people every year sit the VCE along with you. It’s not a journey you do alone. Here at 50Coach, our tutors have worked through the grit of VCE and can attest to the elation you’ll feel on the other end – and with a Raw 50 Tutor who can feel confident in to guide you on that journey, you’ll be on your way to top scoring in no time.

Go forth and conquer your VCE!

50Coach is here with you every step of the way with raw 50 tuition for just $20 an hour