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Who am I? Hey! My name is Hayden Smith, a 2011 HSC student. I’ve done a reasonable amount of casual tutoring in the last few years, but am now looking for something more serious! The HSC was at times a struggle for myself and many others, so I want to do everything I can to help others’ HSC...

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Adv Eng - 94 Physics - 94 Chemistry - 94 Extension 1 Maths - 97 Extension 2 maths - 96 SOR 1U - 50

I got SOR. Was anyone else here at the ceremony?

I also failed to highlight how aligning works, and they aligning within options/modules within each course - i was trying it simple, but thanks for clearing it up anyway :)

The mark that appears on your HSC = Average of (Internal Mark + External Mark) E.G. If internal mark is 60, external if 70, you get "65" on your HSC. External Mark: You sit the exam, you score a mark. YOUR mark. They then 'align' this mark as some exams are harder than others. E.G. Scoring a...

Sounds like a bitch. :\ Put on a year 7 uniform and start again? :P

I ask politely - how? I would of thought it would be better (besides the obvious financial side of things)

It's a private school?... Isn't it like how public schools can't expel children, but private schools can? I mean they are in effect a business. I mean my school is the same with software design, we had 6 people wanting to do it but they instead didn't run it. I just mean, if its a private...

I guess my only query is what do you consider 'never having failed you.' I.e. what marks, ranks, aims do you have? I noticed a link between sleep and results during my trials. For English, 3U maths, 4U maths, and physics in the CSSA i got 98%, 95%, 78% and 93%. Then I remembered back to my...

When they do pilot marking, they'll build a marking criteria - which will award marks for particular steps. E.G. Prove Sinx / (1 - Cosx) = (1 + Cosx) / Sinx If you went LHS = Sinx(1 + Cosx) / (1 - Cosx)(1 + Cosx) = Sinx(1 + Cosx) / (1 - Cos^2(x)) LHS = RHS Like that, and say it was worth 2...

Not dissing the sleep. Maybe I'll rephrase. Who is looking forward to lying in bed, knowing there isn't some requirement to do any study for exams the next day, and to wake up in the bed in the morning not feeling an obligation to get up :D

Who's looking forward to that very first sleep in? I have them practically everyday now :D and I did it on Tuesday as well.

Anyone else been chatting with friends about 40 seconds after an exam - and then just thinking 'what the hell am i doing' and walk away? :P

You sit an exam, score a mark, say 70, lets say in extension 1 maths. Since the average for ext1 is fairly low compared to other subjects, ext1 'aligns' up, giving you a mark of say 85. This is what is on your HSC document. The UAC centre then takes these HSC marks, and 'scales' them according...