Max Your Marks: Tips from top students on how to conquer Year 13

Max Your Marks: Tips from top students on how to conquer Year 13 is the first book to offer study advice and lifestyle tips from the highest-achieving students in NZ and Australia.

The students tell us how they blitzed the year, each in their own way. Packed with practical, inventive suggestions straight from the horse’s mouth, Max Your Marks is a must-have for students preparing for or undertaking Year 13.

In Max Your Marks, top students talk about:

• Their study plans.
   
• How they handled stress.
   
• What they ate.
   
• How they fit in parties, sports and socialising.
   
• Dealing with the ‘intellectual cringe’ NZ is famous for.
   
• Whether they found studying with friends helped or not.
   
• The importance of picking subjects you like.
   
• Being ready for a significant increase in the amount of work you’ll be doing.
   
• Tricks for remembering what they learnt e.g. Re-reading textbooks, re-writing notes, flashcards, using mindmaps on butcher’s paper, using colour codes, using rhymes, teaching others, doing quizzes.
   
• The best teachers and what they did to help.

• Using competition and rivalry to their advantage.

• What parents and siblings can do to help.

• The best place to study.

What they’d change if they did year 13 over, and a lot more.

And the students’ Number One tip? … use your time well. The highest-achieving students said they did as much work in school as possible – they listened hard, took notes, and asked ‘dumb questions. As Allie says in the book: “Make what work you do count.”

All teens will benefit from these excellent tips and tricks to doing well in your last year of high school.

MAX YOUR MARKS: Tips from top students on how to conquer Year 13

by Rowena Austin & Annie Hastwell, with Dorothy Vinicombe

(Publishing 1st April, RRP$23.99, Published by Allen & Unwin).