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xoNat

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imo atomi can be half good half bad for questions, sometimes they're specific but sometimes they ask you something ab the dumbest thing mentioned in the video which has barely any relation to the actual content
its good i think for refreshing memory and as a starting point

lmao i feel you for the remembering formulae part, my brain just breaks
Wait but what formulae do you need to remember in chem apart from like
Q=mcΔΤ and ΔΗ=-q/n
 
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probably not formulae as such, but i genuinely suck at remembering how to do calculations like i find myself getting confused with my own working out and just give up
This is the most relatable thing ive ever heard. Like man not only do i have a terrible memory but i dont trust my maths either honestly!

in my trails we did those keq calculations, like with the products/reactants yada yada…and i forgot to SQUARE ROOT. GOD HELP ME. I forgot about that oh my goodness.
 
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I hate how subjective Mod C is, get screwed over because your marker is in a bad mood. Sorta the same in all of English but especially Mod C,
I went on a tangent about radiohead for mod C. Best assesment of my life honestly. I LOVE DISCURSIVES. Mwah.

if mod c is the craft of writing thing, im terrible with remembering whats what

but you’re absolutely right about that…its why luckily in the hsc things get double marked. If not tripple. Unless youre really unlucky and get three consecutive markers in bad moods i suppose, AHH
 

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This is the most relatable thing ive ever heard. Like man not only do i have a terrible memory but i dont trust my maths either honestly!

in my trails we did those keq calculations, like with the products/reactants yada yada…and i forgot to SQUARE ROOT. GOD HELP ME. I forgot about that oh my goodness.
The only fix for that is past papers, marking and redoing stuff u got wrong
 
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The only fix for that is past papers, marking and redoing stuff u got wrong
Agreed! Our chemistry teacher is amazing she gave us this absolute BEHEMOTH of a practice paper. Im gonna work through that bad boy like no tommorow. Its going to get absolutely extreme guys smash like

Cant wait to realise how much im capable of forgetting in 0.0000002 seconds after i learn it 😭🙏
 

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Agreed! Our chemistry teacher is amazing she gave us this absolute BEHEMOTH of a practice paper. Im gonna work through that bad boy like no tommorow. Its going to get absolutely extreme guys smash like

Cant wait to realise how much im capable of forgetting in 0.0000002 seconds after i learn it 😭🙏
Send us the hard questions
 

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me when the finance Q in cssa 2u was literally just asking for simple interest. stg i never learned that
 

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guys i need serious help idk if i should appeal for this. i got dragged into a meeting about my "terrible" handwriting in my English trial and got told that i did far below my average, which I'm normally at a band 6 level. I've gotten half of it back and got 9 on my craft of writing and a 6 on my common module, but when i look at my writing the parts they haven't highlighted because it "wasn't decipherable' actually is quite readable. from an unbiased view, i can genuinely read way over half of what has not been highlighted.

apparently i cannot read back to the markers again my work so they can mark it accordingly, is there a specific policy that states this for trials? or should i get the school to flag it on some grounds (to be fair i did have a severe family death two weeks before trials where i had to become the primary caretaker for my siblings for two weeks)
i had something similar happen where half of my essay was illegible. I was able to read it aloud with the head of curriculum to transcribe it, however I was quite lucky to be given the chance id say. For the HSC we need to be really mindful of our writing as youre not given the same opportunity, but I would try and appeal it as it would be a school specific assessment policy that's impacting you and itll impact your rank. Maybe you could suggest something similar where you are with an unbiased supervisor who hands the transcribed work to the markers? Or apply for some kind of misadventure? then again your school may be trying to teach you the lesson the hard way, as was explained to me, the hsc markers are being paid per essay, they are not going to spend time deciphering hand writing and will often give it a mark in the middle of the band
 

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guys i know this question is probs asked a 1000 times here, but how exactly do school marks get moderated. what are the factors that influence it?
Like is it the difficulty of the school assessments itself, the cohort average, median, all those stats, while also considering the rank of the student itself. am i right or no?
 

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