Study Tips: How to Study for HSC Business Studies

Not sure how to study for HSC Business Studies? In this article, we talk to Lily who achieved a state ranking of 1st in Business Studies out of 16,000 students to learn the best ways to approach the subject!

Lily and Rowan discuss the following study tips:

- Creating broad study notes
- Creating succinct study notes
- How to structure notes
- Memorising the syllabus
- Using Past Papers

Lily Bleach completed her Higher School Certificate (HSC) in NSW (2010), where she achieved an ATAR (Australian Tertiary Admissions Rank) of 97.9, placing her in the Top 1500 out of 66,000 students in the state.

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[siandude]

Business hsc exam is in two days. *Goes onto youtube for advise on how to study for the exam*

[ArtofSmartTV]

No worries! Glad you found the video useful. Past HSC Papers can be downloaded from the Board of Studies Website. I believe in Lily's case her teacher had also collected a lot of Trial HSC Papers, which they gave to the class which helped Lily prepare. Perhaps download the HSC Papers, and ask your teacher if they can provide you with Trial HSC Exams (even from other schools)?

[tobsabenjamin]

I love the subject but i always get to fail exams

[ArtofSmartTV]

Great to hear you found the video helpful - in fact, the whole point of putting videos up off past students was to create hope, so its really great to hear that it has achieved this goal!

[tvaddict]

Hard work pays off! Thanks Lily, for the inspiration!

[aldrenpoliquit]

Better study for the test!
*goes on YouTube*

[natashajackman]

Business studies HSC exam tomorrow, stressing out because I didn't study... *searches on YouTube* - "how to bullshit business studies"

[ArtofSmartTV]

Hi Janabel,

When you say actual tutorials, what would you like to learn?

[ArtofSmartTV]

@19jewels95 It does make it difficult. In saying this past papers will still be very useful as while emphasis has changed for syllabus, much of it remains the same. The newer/modified sections - you will need to take syllabus dot points and convert into your own questions.

[samirfakoua]

Every time I study for business I loose interest after like half an hour then everything starts going in one ear and out the other... I hate business... and the exam is in 7 days... what do I

[drdarkness]

Hey :) Thanks for the helpful information on studying. My business studies teacher keeps mentioning the syllabus and study notes. Question: where is Lily getting all the past papers from?

[ArtofSmartTV]

Hard work does pay off - but you also need to work smart!

[jewels]

There's a new HSC syllabus in place for BS 2012. This means that there's no past HSC papers to rely on, because the emphasis and information necessary will be different. How do I practise without them?! *Help*

[kyrandoyle]

Cool Study Tips. great info here, maybe I should start focusing on some of these strategies

[TommyInVancouver]

How can anyone study BUSINESS when businesses range from small mom and pop companies to massive internationals? What would they have in common? How can studying private sector apply to public sector? Again, how can there be any similarity...begging the question "How can there be business studies?"

[Brainmass]

Fantastic Video! Thanks for the help.

[goldyrl]

good video it was so helpful this will defiantly help me in my future job

[ArtofSmartTV]

Hey lucykhu18 - the key is the to follow the syllabus. So yes, within each syllabus dot point there may be a number of sub headings - to prevent it from being confusing create a heircarchy of importance in your sub-headings by using different size fonts/different fonts.

[TomNottinghamGuitars]

i just turned 14, im doing business studies this year and my test is coming up soon so thanks for the video. by the way im thinking of picking business retail next year alongside computer science.

[sparklyblue]

my business HSC exam is in two weeks time!!!