Class of 2025 (2025 HSC CHAT) (34 Viewers)

[Study to success]

Anyone who wants to become an actuariast. I would have done it if I was good at math but I suck so I can’t. But apparently it’s really stressful cause even after u get ur job every 2 years they make u do a test so that they can basically find every way possible to kick u out and hire new people instead

 

[hellokitty48920]

brooo is everyone proper locked in be honedt

no lol

 

[academic_reaper]

Anyone who wants to become an actuariast. I would have done it if I was good at math but I suck so I can’t. But apparently it’s really stressful cause even after u get ur job every 2 years they make u do a test so that they can basically find every way possible to kick u out and hire new people instead

Sounds like a scam...

 

[redisdead]

can someone explain what a discursive is cause I've never done one and I've never been taught one so if they make us do it in the hsc I'm screwed. My teacher better teach us sometime soon. I have the opposite problem. Ik what a persuasive is just not a discursive

Discursive is pretty fun cause it's in between a creative and an essay. You're exploring a topic, and may take a slight skew to a certain position, but generally you're not meant to take a side like in a persuasive. It doesn't have to be something explicitly political either, for example I almost wrote about the Snowy Mountains for my one before eventually deciding to write about autism. The best part about discursive is you can be as playful as you like (amp up the sardonic humour), go off on tangents, as long as you eventually jump back to the main idea. Read Margaret Atwood's Spotty Handed Villainesses if you haven't already been prescribed it (it's fairly short) and you'll get an idea of what a playful discursive is like. Another example which may lean slightly towards creative but nevertheless has discursive humour is Nafissa Thompson-Spires' "Heads of the Colored People: Four Fancy Sketches, Two Chalk Outlines, and No Apologies", which is not a prescribed text for the HSC, but I found it through my creative writing subject at uni.

 

[yourbestfriend]

omg guys we have less than 30 days until paper 1!! ive done nothing since trials lol

 

[Kat.crazi]

Anyone who wants to become an actuariast. I would have done it if I was good at math but I suck so I can’t. But apparently it’s really stressful cause even after u get ur job every 2 years they make u do a test so that they can basically find every way possible to kick u out and hire new people instead

Afaik there are a number of exams you need to pass but after that you’re qualified so idk. But yea for the first few years there are many exams, then it calms down once you have your credentials, much like other professions

 

[Kat.crazi]

brooo is everyone proper locked in be honedt

Trying to be !
on weekends for sure, weekdays I try for 4 hours but have been slipping a bit to 3 sometimes because I get tired after school. I am even sometimes locked in now at school tho which is very uncharacteristic for me lol
My tip is wake up EARLY (hence the time I’m posting this)

 

[svad]

when's everyone graduating? I heard some people already have

 

[Kat.crazi]

26 Sept

 

[Study to success]

when's everyone graduating? I heard some people already have

next year lmao

 

[Study to success]

Afaik there are a number of exams you need to pass but after that you’re qualified so idk. But yea for the first few years there are many exams, then it calms down once you have your credentials, much like other professions

from what my parents colleagues said they have to do tests every 2 years no matter how qualified u are I think but idk

 

[bigupsanky]

Hey guys I have 2 questions about the reading task in paper 1:
1. How am I supposed to analyse nonfiction extracts and articles?
2. For questions like comparing two texts, can I use the same evidence which I wrote in previous questions regarding the text? For example if there was one question for text 1 and text 2 each, can I use the same evidence and analysis from those questions in the comparative question?

 

[Study to success]

2. For questions like comparing two texts, can I use the same evidence which I wrote in previous questions regarding the text? For example if there was one question for text 1 and text 2 each, can I use the same evidence and analysis from those questions in the comparative question?

yeah my teacher said that u can do that

 

[bigupsanky]

yeah my teacher said that u can do that

got it thanks

 

[C2H6O]

1. How am I supposed to analyse nonfiction extracts and articles?

It’s not that different from fiction really, just approach it with a slightly different context and you’re limited in terms of techniques. Anecdote, accumulative listing, hyperbole, analogy, intertextuality, allusion etc

 

[Study to success]

It’s not that different from fiction really, just approach it with a slightly different context and you’re limited in terms of techniques. Anecdote, accumulative listing, hyperbole, analogy, intertextuality, allusion etc

yeah I always struggle finding techniques so I end up looking at like the structure, speech, rhetorical questions and the stuff u listed above too. But a lot of the time there's also irony I feel like

 

[bigupsanky]

It’s not that different from fiction really, just approach it with a slightly different context and you’re limited in terms of techniques. Anecdote, accumulative listing, hyperbole, analogy, intertextuality, allusion etc

yeah i do mention rhetorical questions and stuff but it is so hard lol

 

[qweeosh]

when's everyone graduating? I heard some people already have

next thursday

 

[qweeosh]

1. How am I supposed to analyse nonfiction extracts and articles?

Sometimes I refer to the types of rhetoric, intertextuality etc etc

 

[killer queen]

WHY DOES ENGLISH HAVE TO COUNT. (reports came out)

it’s not even that bad I’m just mad that literally one teacher cooked my rank

y'all you reckon jimmy can predict specific marks for certain subjects