This is a bit weird and when I look back it IS a bit weird but I think it probably helped. Me and my friends - we used to weight our pens, with batteries. When it came to the exam, you take the pen off, and you can just fly. Because in the HSC, you're writing an essay in 40 minutes, that's not normal, so you really need your hand to fly. One of my study hacks was going for a surf. If I went for a surf in the morning so I start my day early and I got out and did like hard exercise because surfing's like full body movement, and you know, tires your whole body out. And I feel like, you kinda just release all these endorphins, so I'd feel quite happy with doing work after then. I was super organized with colours and papers and everything. Everything had a post-it note, everything had a colour. I had a highlighter for different subjects and then in the exam I'd remember that I highlighted that question in pink and I'd also highlighted the answer in pink so it sort of made it stay in my brain. Colour coding, spreading things out, really helped me. I made sure that highlighters, pens, folders - they were all in that color and they'd all have a section on my desk. The purple's visual art section, and when I was studying visual arts everything else would move out of the way, and the purple stuff would be right in front of me. I basically put together, an Excel spreadsheet. First, I put down what breaks I think I might want to take and then I see what time I wanna get up in the morning to start studying so then I just put down which subjects I'm struggling with and give those more days and time for studying. The night before an exam, I'll sleep with my notes underneath my pillow. It's complete garbage but I do it every time. It would freak me out if I didn't. The only thing is sometimes you leave without taking your notes with you ... That's only happened once, so ...