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Needed 99 for Medicine at UNSW, (because of average UMAT). Ended up with 97.35, although I didn't ever really expect to get 99.

It was the best of times, It was the worst of times.

From the cover of the paper: "All questions are of equal value"

Finished an hour early, but spent the next 50 minutes or so checking my answers and missed the oportunity to leave early, but lucky for me I noticed I'd forgotten to label the axis on the graph and managed to fix it. :) Overall rather happy with this test, since there were no questions about...

According to my lovely exam timetable it was this morning 9:25 to 12:00

Knowing from experience most of what the "news" says about "prestigious private schools" is complete rubbish. It would have been a few morons doing some incredibly stupid antics and the school thought it would be easiest just to cancel it for everyone, happens all the time, but usually the...

You can never prove whether or not God exists, but if people believe in him/her/it/Chuck Norris, and it makes them more considerate people then there is nothing wrong with it. But when people start using faith as an excuse to be really crap to other people (i.e. extremists) then it calls into...

Quite happy that there was no "How has this shaped your personal response?" rubbish, but I wasn't expecting that they would all be essays. I generally find it better to cope with the monotony if one of the text types is novel, like an interview transcript or something.

The trouble with the death penalty is that occasionally innocent people get hanged & it is cheaper to let paedophiles rot in gaol then shoot them.

Technically to be awarded an HSC you must "make a serious attempt," so by not attempting an exam, they are risking their entire HSC. Likely nothing along those lines will happen, how do they know it isn't a serious attempt?

I think I did alright doing the story, especially since several people stated they did the memoirs and then asked what a memoir was.

Much of the Imagery was talking about Charles Darwin, the namesake of the NT city of Darwin, i.e. Galapogas was where he supposedly formulated his theory, he travelled upon a ship called the Beagle etc. I wrote that it was metaphor for how the town has "evolved".