Gunnedah Year 12 students have attended classes for the last time this week in the lead-up to the Higher School Certificate (HSC).
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Gunnedah High School student Jess Moore and St Mary’s College students Grace Jaeger and Max Crowhurst finish up on Thursday.
The three students will enter the Stu Vac period to prepare for their first HSC exam, English paper one, which will be held on October 18.
Jess is feeling confident about the two English exams because she has a passion for writing, a passion she hopes to pursue through a Bachelor of Communication (journalism) at the University of Newcastle next year.
“I’m really interested in writing. I love my writing, but I also feel like it’s important to tell the truth and be honest,” she said.
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The 17-year-old said she had made an effort to be “stress-free” this year.
“I feel like it’s your last year and it’s important not to get stressed about everything. It’s important to maintain a balance,” she said.
“While I’m not worried [about the HSC], I’m still remaining really focused.”
Jess, Max and Grace all plan to stick to a school schedule in the lead-up to the exams and attend study sessions at their schools.
Jess said her teachers had been hugely supportive and “in this final run they want to help as much as they can”. She said the HSC trials were also helpful to give her “really good insight” as to what to expect in the HSC, and what she needed to focus on.
Grace said she felt “a bit nervous” about the upcoming exams because she is “way better at assignments than exams”.
The 18-year-old is unsure whether she will take a gap year in 2019 or head off to university. She has reached the next round of early entry offers from the University of Wollongong for a Bachelor of Health and Physical Education and a Bachelor of Social Science, and has a phone interview lined up in the school holidays.
I feel like it’s your last year and it’s important not to get stressed about everything.
- Jess Moore
Max is also “undecided” as to whether he will take a gap year or go straight to university to study education. He has already spoken to a number of his teachers about whether he should go down the path of a high school teacher and said “I do look up to a lot of my teachers”. He has an interview with the University of Wollongong this week about his early entries.
The 18-year-old said he “doesn’t struggle with exams” and felt more prepared after completing the HSC trials in August.
“It helps me feel a lot less nervous,” he said.
“I feel like I’ve done it before. I know where I went wrong now and what I need to focus on.”
- Follow the journey of Jess Moore, Grace Jaeger and Max Crowhurst throughout the HSC on www.nvi.com.au