Welcome to Day 1 of the ATAR 30 Day Hard Challenge. This week is about resetting your system. Grinding harder with bad technique does not work. If you keep rereading notes, avoiding hard questions, getting distracted by your phone, or repeating the same mistakes, more hours will not magically fix the problem. Sometimes you need to pause, reflect, change your strategy, test what works, and then keep going. This is only the start. You have time to figure out what works for you. Today’s prompt: 1. What is one study habit you need to reset? 2. What is one thing you already do well? 3. What is one change you will test this week? 30 days. Daily execution. Honest reflection.

The ATAR 30 Day Hard Challenge is designed to help you lock in for 30 days and build the habits that actually improve your results. This is not just about “studying more.” It’s about becoming a better student. Over the 30 days, you’ll work on: 📚 Academic improvement: You’ll complete exam-style questions, use active recall, track your mistakes, and focus on the study methods that actually produce marks. 🧠 Better study habits: You’ll learn how to plan your day, complete deep work blocks, reduce phone distraction, and stop relying only on motivation. 🏃 Better lifestyle: You’ll also track movement, sleep, energy, and reflection — because high performance is not built from burnout. 🎻 Better cocurricular balance: This challenge is not about quitting everything else. It’s about learning how to manage school, sport, music, leadership, work, hobbies, and life with better structure. 📝 Better reflection: Every day, you’ll reflect on your biggest win, biggest mistake, and what you need to adjust tomorrow. That’s how you stop repeating the same problems. You’ll also be surrounded by other ambitious students, weekly check-ins, leaderboard competition, and accountability inside the Project 99.95 community. The goal is to show up, execute, reflect, and improve for 30 days. Expression of Interest: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfGlNoQARHPG9Vrsdkv7m5PQA1ga7CEgVWguvMyFP15_Qa55Q/viewform?usp=dialog

As per popular demand, I am making the Conductometric Curves session recorded for Project 99.95 Elite Chemistry available for you all to access. As one of you have mentioned on a previous message, this concept is new to the 2025 QCAA syllabus and is probably the most complex to understand in the equilibrium topic. Please access the recording on this message and let me know if you have any questions. If you're keen to access all of our other filmed resources in our Elite community, feel free to give me or Ryan a shout! David and Ryan

Let us know what session/resources you'd find most helpful heading into Term 2!

As we enter the crunch time of UCAT study next term, it's more important than ever to have the right strategies and mindsets in place to give ourselves a competitive edge over other students. Make sure to implement these in your UCAT practice! Let us know if you have any questions by replying to this post. David and Ryan