Senior Thesis

The average HSC student takes 6 classes from year 11 to year 12. Dividing by the 30 hours in every school week, this is 5 hours of class-time per subject, per week. Torrens Strait University recommends that HSC students study 2-6 hours per subject, per week in the student's own time. At a rate of 4 hours of study/week and 5 hours of class time, this amounts to 9 hours total work/week or one hour and 20 minutes per day towards any given subject throughout year 11 and 12. Over the course of ~320 school days (2 full years), that is approximately 400 hours.

Now having graduated, I am studying HSC advanced maths in my own time at a rate of 25 hours per week or (3-4 hours per day) - via MathsOnline. I am doing this because I don't believe a bridging course alone would be sufficient in preparing me for the maths involved in some of the degrees i've applied for.

Having started this regime in the first week of October 2024, I should be competent in HSC advanced maths in 16 weeks (of course other factors come into play, but in simple terms), or by January 1st 2025 - approximately 1 month before first semesters commence.

In a nutshell, you could look at this as the midpoint between a bridging course and actually studying the subject throughout year 11 and 12. This is because I am still covering the whole HSC advanced maths curriculum in depth, like the real class would, just within a condensed timeframe, like in a bridging course - except about 12 times longer is taken to absorb the content than would be in a 5 day bridging course.

Feel free to query me about this pursuit in our interview together. I am more than happy to answer any questions you may have and would like to demonstrate my mathematical competency for you. I look forward to our chat and I hope you enjoy my thesis!

Kind regards,

Asher