Literally 100’s of students have travelled their way through HSC English via English Mastery. Over a number of years it has been possible to keep records. After some time patterns tend to merge. One repeated trait that presents in students who get UAI’s over 90 + equally importantly those students who report thriving through the year and keeping some semblance of sanity is that they get on top of things before the bulk of the year gets underway.

BIG OBVIOUS BUT UNDER-UTILIZED TIP: Whether you are doing Advanced or Extension English and regardless of the other subjects you are doing “break the back” of your reading and/or your extension work. You will never again have such an opportunity for undiluted study during your HSC year! SCEGGS Darlinghurst is studying A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf. KNOX here on the North Shore of Sydney is embracing The Skull Beneath The Skin for their Extension Crime Fiction. Let’s face it neither of these texts are “a walk in the park.” The same applies for many other texts. Get ahead with your reading and assessment now. It’s your one big “break.”

All the Very Best For Your Future, 

Dr Jonathan Hardy

14 November 2008