Prac Exam tips for HSC Physics/Chemistry | Part 6 Science Skills

Key takeaways:

Try meditating before you enter, when sitting and when flustered to reduce silly mistakes (students really have seen improvements!)
Don't waste time getting perfect results for the practical you perform
Practice at home under timed conditions, as time is the biggest killer for practical exams.

Meditation guide: https://www.nytimes.com/guides/well/h...
Premeditation of Evils guide:    • Why you should define your fears inst...  

Our content expert, Bob Chen, who topped NSW in Physics (state rank), came first in James Ruse physics and got a 99.85 ATAR, presents how to ace the practical exam. It's easy to think you can't study for it. But it is important to study!

Physics and Chemistry practical exams can be best studied for by doing practice papers under timed conditions. I go into more depth and give more tricks below. Check out the timestamps below.


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Part 2: How to Assess and Improve Reliability:    • How to Assess and Improve Reliability...  
Part 3: How to Assess and Improve Validity:    • How to Assess and Improve Validity | ...  
Part 4: Worked Chemistry Prac Test:    • Worked Chemistry Prac Test | Part 4 S...  
Part 5: Worked Physics Prac Test:    • Worked Physics Prac Test | Part 5 Sci...  
Part 6: Prac Exam tips for HSC Physics/Chemistry:    • Prac Exam tips for HSC Physics/Chemis...  

00:00 1. What to do before and on exam day
1:00 2. What to do before exam day
7:35 3. What to do on exam day
10:37 4 How to stop silly mistakes
15:05 5. Meditation
18:58 6. How to stop anxious thoughts/Premeditation of evils
23:02 7. Importance of reading
25:47 8. Exam time management / How to not run out of time
28:35 9. How to answer accuracy, validity, reliability questions
29:16 10. Summary