is it fine to just not show up for a hsc exam since i don't want it to count at all. to those who may say just go since you have already learnt all the content - i haven't, i knew i was dropping since the start but wasn't allowed to due to school reasons. i did do an accelerated subject so i have 10 units WITHOUT this subject that i am thinking of missing the hsc exam for.

is it ok to just not show up? or should i just go and do the bare minimum?

EDIT: I will be going and just give it my best shot - thanks everyone for the advice I really appreciate it!

Yea so after trials where my marks fell as expected and my overall marks came out. I feel like my atar is over, after English Paper 2 I genuinely lost all the stress that motivated me to study. Paper 1 and Modern History were such good papers that when maths standard 2 came around I went in too relaxed, that after some answers got leaked that I knew I might have lost one too many marks. I still feel like I’d get a 85+ in maths and history and 75 in English. But with business and economics b2b I feel like I’m going into these exams without enough caution, I’m still missing proper understanding of 2 business topic, and will lose marks for some stupid hyper niche question that I wasn’t ready for. Economics is probably my last hope but even then I don’t know if I can get 90+, its not foregone I understand majority of economics really well and I’m at a 87 internal market, but my biggest concern is that my arm gives up. It happened in trials where having to write 15 essays (I count the total writing amount across Business Econ English Short answers as 1 essay worth of writing and 2 for History, Core and section 4) worth across 3 days without any rest time , I almost tore some muscle or stressed a tendon so hard I had to get professional therapy before I’d loose functionality in that hand. I fear that it may happen during the last 2 exams and I’ll loose marks for it. I need an atar of atleast 85 and the way things seem either I need a miracle in Business (even though it’s supposed to be one of the easiest, compared to what I do it’s my weakest cos I’ve brushed it off majority of y12) and am okay economics paper. Having Asian parents that tell you, that you need to go to the best uni you can, but then them saying “I don’t care what atar you get, as long as you do what you want”, in the middle of the most stressful exam period really fucked my study rhythm. I don’t whether or no I’m over stressing it, or if my fate is sealed and I should accept my Wollongong offer, even though I swore on my dignity that I’d rather go to tafe than that.

Is anyone memorising a reflection for their prepped discursives and imaginatives just in case?

My performance on my exams so far has been quite sub par. For English I got probably 60 percent, and then for mx2 50 raw, and then now mx1 most likely 60-65% as well. I still have graphics and physics to go but I’m really scared for my atar, I need an 81 for my degree and I’m really scared I won’t get there. my mental health has been really bad ever since trials and I’m just yeah, scared. I view myself very harshly and critique myself endlessly so while I do try to study for exams, and I do put in lots of effort, the cumulative amount of study I’ve done wasn’t much, mostly because I procrastinated a lot as well as not have a concrete study routine. I guess I’m just worried because this degree is literally the be all end all of my life basically. I know that people say there’s other ways to get in but this is an early entry offer, and the normal degree is a 93. I basically need a 90+ raw in physics now. I’ve done so bad so far and I feel like a failure, I just don’t know how to feel anymore and I don’t know if it’s even worth trying still. this last year has literally been the worst year of my life and I’m struggling to cope.