Recent content by Trebla

Are you a past HSC student with strengths in Maths, Business Studies, Chemistry or Physics? Do you want to be play an important role in this year's BoS Trials which are referenced by many students, teachers and tutors across the state? :bosman: Every year we host the BoS trial exam events in...

I would like to see an official source comment on the use of out of syllabus methods. Intuitively, I struggle to believe there is much truth to the acceptance of such approaches as it creates all sorts of problems when trying to mark equitably. At best you likely need to derive these "out of...

If the goal is to go to James Ruse purely for ATAR reasons then my question back to you is are there enough exogenous factors to make the student inherently smarter or more hard working, because there is no real “boost” from moderation. For example, will a more competitive environment or having...

The whole idea of being "boosted" up by the moderation process simply because you go to better performing school is actually a myth. If you are ranked in the middle of an average school on the basis of your internal marks, then one should naturally expect that you will be equivalently ranked...

There is this widespread belief that scaling is based on subject difficulty and therefore you should get an "ATAR boost" in more difficult subjects to take advantage of the scaling. This is actually a myth. The most obvious reason why it is a myth, is simply because it is not possible to...

When you square both sides, you introduce potential solutions which may not necessarily satisfy the original equation. This occurs because the square root is not unique. For example, if x=-2 then x^2 = 4 so x = -2, 2 so an extra value of x is incorrectly introduced which fails to satisfy the...

It’s not in syllabus anymore so at best you will be asked to derive the result (you shouldn’t be quoting it) under today’s syllabus. It can be derived normally by trig substitution. This is for the external HSC btw, but your school can make up their own rules on what is allowed for internals...

The alternative would be to rent long term. You technically won’t be in long term debt but you’re effectively making regular payments to live in a place in pretty much the same way as if you had a long term debt. Unless you live with your parents rent-free forever then you will inevitably have...

For starters, lenders are legally obliged to check that you can afford their mortgage purely on today’s income before they lend to you. However, your income is usually not static over time. For most people, it goes up over time as you get promoted or find other ways to earn money investing etc...

It’s actually not as high as you think, once you take into account that most people do it with partners for a combined income. If you and your partner are earning like at least $90k each (before tax and inclusive of bonuses) then it is possible to get a mortgage to cover a $1 million house with...

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Thanks to those who voted! The clear favourite is Sunday 7th April! Next steps... for those who are serious about coming on that day please send me a PM here to indicate this. I will then create a private group convo where specific details like time and place will be sorted out.

Bump for the poll. Will determine the day by end of tomorrow.