2023 HSC chat (93 Viewers)

[C_master]

I'm expecting a .95

99.95?

 

[HazzRat]

99.95?

yeah, not from me, for @Masaken. I'm praying for a 97

 

[C_master]

why'd you lower the goal

let em be realistic

 

[HazzRat]

why'd you lower the goal

My predicted atar atm is 96.7 (this is the school's prediction using stats from the previous five years). It's not like I'm gonna bump it by 2.3, but I think 0.3 is more achievable

 

[HazzRat]

Edit: also UNSW law is 97 median, and that's the course I'm aiming for

 

[HazzRat]

they gave you predicted atars this soon?

From prelims. But yeah, we got them before we could drop a subject to see which ones we'd do the best in

 

[Masaken]

yeah, not from me, for @Masaken. I'm praying for a 97

sorry to disappoint but chances are i'm not gonna get the .95 but you can avenge my place and get the .95 instead

 

[HazzRat]

i'll be real i flunked (got avg) for my eng at1 and then got top 10 for at2 and then got decently above avg for prelim so now i'm around top 15 so hooray

I kind of keep my marks close to my chest cause I did bad in term 1, but I was able to recover mostly in year 11 for english. I got 15/20 in the first (death to creative writing), 20/20 in the second, and 20/20 in the third, netting me 4/67 (pretty decent considering I was 19th at the start)

 

[C_master]

Jus curious but for the HSC exams for subjects such as chem, physics- r u tested on mods 5-8 only and 1-4 are assumed knowledge from yr 11?? or everything together

 

[Masaken]

Jus curious but for the HSC exams for subjects such as chem, physics- r u tested on mods 5-8 only and 1-4 are assumed knowledge from yr 11?? or everything together

1-4 is assumed knowledge for the hsc course, most likely you won't be tested on 1-4 (only 5-8), but since it's assumed knowledge they *can*, they just probably won't.

 

[C_master]

for physics 1-4 are assumed; 1,2,4 are more important. (mod 1,2) –> mod 5, (mod 5,4) –> mod 6, (mod 3; kinda) –> mod 7

Still dont get it so ur basically saying that we r tested on every mod??

 

[HazzRat]

my creative has a lot of flair but it's definitely going to guilt trip the marker

Nice. I've definitely got some better ideas for my creative this time 'round and so I'll be gunning for a 20/20 in this one. My year 10 creative was soooooooo much better than my year 11 one.

 

[HazzRat]

i wrote my year 10 creative on phones and i think i got lucky with who marked it because i think that teacher has a sworn rivalry or whatever against phones it's like the one source of joy in her life to confiscate them anyways yeah my one i've done for the past 3 weeks is diptych (cause i'm a fancy pretentious tea slipping bitch). i just want A range; my description is definitely enough but my plot can be improved slightly

Mine was just cause my class a supposition that my eng teacher was gay, so I made mine on the AIDs crisis and I got 29/30 lol. This year cause my eng teacher is Canadien I have some stories thought out about maple syrup

 

[mmmmmmmmaaaaaaa]

top ranks in school ≠ good notes

agreed I barely used notes at all last year (anecdote)

it is seen as a form of passive study so I don't use it often

 

[carrotsss]

hmm whats the bachelor of science structure like, from other unis ive seen the bachelor of science is just like 2 years of general sciency stuff and then like one year major or something ur field like chem, bio or physics etc.

But I get confused when I see the amount of majors USYD has under for it like if you do a bachelor of science majoring in computer science or something would U just only learn computer science or you would only learn it for a year or so because its a major?
idk im pretty confused

I’m pretty sure most of the course is your majors, and only a tiny bit is the sciencey stuff unless I’m mistaken

 

[natsnapshoot]

Jus curious but for the HSC exams for subjects such as chem, physics- r u tested on mods 5-8 only and 1-4 are assumed knowledge from yr 11?? or everything together

For Chem you are only tested on mods 5-8. However, you may have to use the skills/formulas that you learn in year 11, such as n=m/MM , C=n/V etc. This year in particular, many of us had to use the PV=nRT formula, despite it not being mentioned in the year 12 syllabus.

 

[souli]

can someone please tell me how to do English past hsc/history papers when all the extracts are blocked for copyright

 

[carrotsss]

can someone please tell me how to do English past hsc/history papers when all the extracts are blocked for copyright

get copies without them blocked

 

[Masaken]

can someone please tell me how to do English past hsc/history papers when all the extracts are blocked for copyright

history - ask teacher (also souli use the modern history trial drive i gave u )
eng (paper 2) - ask teacher
eng (paper 1) - dymocks tutoring has a blog where they put sample answers to all the unseen texts but they also put in the texts even if they're copyrighted on the blog so just use those

 

[souli]

history - ask teacher (also souli use the modern history trial drive i gave u )
eng (paper 2) - ask teacher
eng (paper 1) - dymocks tutoring has a blog where they put sample answers to all the unseen texts but they also put in the texts even if they're copyrighted on the blog so just use those

ok absolutely amazing thank you
Masaken coming in clutch as usual WALKING W