This document discusses strategies for how libraries can better support HSC students. It notes that around 140,000 students experience high anxiety levels during their HSC year. Popular workshop topics at libraries include study skills, English areas of study, and maths. The document suggests that libraries could enhance support by offering subject-specific workshops focused on content and processes, as well as stress relief workshops. It also proposes hosting "mock exam" events and establishing dedicated HSC study zones during the holidays before exams to help students prepare and develop effective study routines in an exam-like environment.

1. How Libraries
Can Support
Students
Studying for
the HSC By Rowan Kunz

2. 140,000
Year 11 & 12 students

3. 1 in 2
HSC students experience
high-level anxiety

4. 60,000+
Year 11 & 12 students

5. workload
expectations
exams

6. 1 in 3
procrastinate more

7. 47,000
Year 11 & 12 students

8. WHO IS
THIS GUY?

9. 8 YEARS OF
RESEARCH

10. PLAN
OF
ATTACK

11. (1) Explore HSC students key challenges
(2) How are you currently helping HSC students?
(3) 3 ideas to further enhance your HSC support

12. Educational Psychologist Benjamin Bloom
conducted landmark study in 1980’s
“Developing Talent in Young People”

13. No correlation between
performance and IQ

14. (1) Deliberate Practice
(2) Teachers & Mentors
(3) Environment

15. (1) Deliberate Practice
(2) Teachers & Mentors
(3) Environment

16. HIGH
IMPORTANCE

17. 8 YEARS OF
RESEARCH

18. BALANCEMOTIVATION ENVIRONMENT TIME MANAGEMENT
CLASSROOM HABITS STUDY NOTES EFFECTIVE STUDY
EXAM PREPARATION EXAM TECHNIQUE
ACADEMIC SUCCESS

19. BALANCEMOTIVATION ENVIRONMENT TIME MANAGEMENT
CLASSROOM HABITS STUDY NOTES EFFECTIVE STUDY
EXAM PREPARATION EXAM TECHNIQUE
ACADEMIC SUCCESS

20. BALANCEMOTIVATION ENVIRONMENT TIME MANAGEMENT
CLASSROOM HABITS STUDY NOTES EFFECTIVE STUDY
EXAM PREPARATION EXAM TECHNIQUE
ACADEMIC SUCCESS

21. BALANCEMOTIVATION ENVIRONMENT TIME MANAGEMENT
CLASSROOM HABITS STUDY NOTES EFFECTIVE STUDY
EXAM PREPARATION EXAM TECHNIQUE
ACADEMIC SUCCESS

22. BALANCEMOTIVATION ENVIRONMENT TIME MANAGEMENT
CLASSROOM HABITS STUDY NOTES EFFECTIVE STUDY
EXAM PREPARATION EXAM TECHNIQUE
ACADEMIC SUCCESS

23. HOW ARE YOU
CURRENTLY
HELPING?

25. 3 ideas

26. HSC workshops
HSC Lock-out style events
HSC study zones

27. idea #1

28. HSC
workshops

31. 31.25
average attendees

32. Most popular
Study Skills
Parent Information
English - Area of Study
Mathematics

33. Least popular
Meditation & Relaxation
Business Studies
Geography
Ancient History
Subject specific ones

34. Why is English, Area of Study
and Maths so popular?

35. New Area of Study
Few available resources
Every student in NSW sits English
Creative Writing rarely covered

36. Subject Canditature Run Workshops
Maths General 31,514 Y
English Standard 31,502 Y
English Advanced 26,006 Y
Biology 17,271 Y
Business Studies 16,562 Y
Maths 2U 16,451 Y
PDHPE 15,083 Y
Modern History 11,053 N
Chemistry 10,997 N
Ancient History 10,751 Y
Legal Studies 10,297 Y
Physics 9,511 N
Visual Arts 9,003 N
Maths 3U 8,995 N
Studies of Religion 1 8,951 N

37. Why are subject-specific
workshops not as successful?

38. TSFX Workshops
HSC in the Holidays
Growth of Tutoring Colleges
Online Video Tutorials
Lower Candidature

39. how could your
workshops better help
students?

40. effective study
exam preparation
exam technique

41. Subject specific workshops
Focus them on specific content
Focus them on the process

42. English successful - because
specific content focus.
E.g. Area of Study, Creative Writing

43. Don’t stop providing subject
specific
Instead re-think and re-position
these workshops

44. How to study for specific subject
How to create a study plan
How to get Band 6 for subject
How to major works
Specific most difficult module/unit
within course

45. no other workshops on
these available

46. 20,000+ monthly visitors
1 million+ Youtube views
for this type of content

47. Other workshops
Continue to offer meditation/
stress relief

48. stress key issue
growing awareness of
meditation, yoga etc

49. Talent 100 a large tutoring
college in Chatswood now
offer a yoga room for
students

50. Other workshops
Subject Selection & Scaling
Applying for Scholarships
Career Pathway Options
Alternate Entry Options for Uni

51. motivation
stress and expectations

52. idea #2

53. HSC
lock-out style
events

55. Term 1 & 2
winners

56. What has worked well
for HSC Lock-Out Style
Events?

57. What has worked well
Regular breaks
Food - Pizza!
Young people to talk about related issues
(e.g. mental health)
Running them in final weeks prior to HSC
Running them on Saturdays

58. exam preparation
exam technique

59. In Term 3 and Term 4 holidays
prior to Trials and HSC exams
offer ‘mock Trial/HSC exam’
sessions for students

60. Focus on English & Maths
English - 2 hour exam
Maths - 3 hour exam
At library, timed, in ‘exam
conditions’

62. 90%
DOING THE
REAL THING

63. (1) Re-Writing
(2) Teaching Others
(3) Past Exam Papers & Practice Essays

64. most students don’t do
enough past papers

65. never do it in timed
conditions

66. 10+ tutoring colleges across
Sydney offer this service for
students

67. time management
exam preparation
exam technique

68. idea #3

69. HSC
study zones

71. In Term 3 and Term 4 holidays
prior to Trials and HSC exams
create ‘School Day’ routines in
the Study Zones 8am-3pm, with
recess and lunch breaks

72. On weekends during year
Create specific routines in the
Study Zones - 1 hour, 5min break

73. Increasingly schools (private)
are opening up campus over
holidays

74. ONE
BIG
THING

75. want
more?

76. www.artofsmart.com.au

77. www.studytelevision.com

78. SECRETS OF HSC SUCCESS REVEALED
(1) Time Management
(2) Study Plans
(3) Exam Preparation
(4) Specific Subjects
(5) Month before the HSC
www.secretsofhscsuccessreaveled.com.au

79. MY CONTACT INFORMATION
e: rowan.kunz@artofsmart.com.au
p: 1300 267 888
twitter: @Rowan_Kunz