Recent content by Master Sword

HANDY ANDY! If you're asking whether certain option topics are scaled better then others then no apparently that's not the case. The candidates of each option topic will be ranked within each option topic and the top candidate in each option topic will be given the same mark. Second top...

Doesn't seem too farfetched to me. If you consider that Saturn is in the same solar system and the result you got is a bit dimmer than the apparent magnitude from Earth, it seems alright. Remember the distance from Saturn to the Sun is nowhere near the distance to the nearest star. I think I got...

Haha, yeah I used the M = m - 5log(d/10) formula first and substituted 1 for d from Earth to the Sun and 10 for d from Saturn to the Sun. Ended up finding the apparent magnitude but crossed it out thinking I'd done it wrong. Spent another page working out what 1 AU was in parsecs then...

I got -3 x 15 = -45 also. The reason you leave the second number as 15 is because if a 2's compliment number begins with 1, you know it is negative. Otherwise if it begins with a zero it's just treated as a normal positive binary number. The first 2's compliment number is 11111101 --> we...

Ha, yeah by about the middle of the third essay my hand was starting to hurt pretty bad. I was getting worried that I'd end up like this.. lol

Yeah 4 pages is fine for the length of an essay but it depends if you wrote about what the markers will be looking for, as well as whether or not you expressed your ideas well. Writing more pages won't get you a better mark, in fact it can work agianst you if you stray too far from the topic or...

Yeah I know, but most of the our assessments were in HSC booklets from previous years that were left over.

The number of pages you wrote has nothing to do with it. 5 pages is perfectly fine. The teachers at my school always taught us to write essays that are 4-6 pages in length and engage with the terms of the question, talking about certain issues relating to one text while talking about...

To the people who wrote 7 pages for Section I, what on earth did you write? You must have written whole page responses to the one mark questions than can be answered in a sentence or two. Seriously, I can understand writing a 1-2 page response for the 5 mark question but there is only so much...

You wrote 7 pages in section 1? :confused: What are you guys doing, writing a whole page for the one mark questions that you can answer in a couple of lines?

How the hell do some of you people manage to write 8+ pages in 40 minutes? My GOD. Seriously. I did manage to write something like 6 pages for my creative writing but only because I spent 55 minutes on it. My unexpected destinations essay was about 3.5 pages long, writing as fast as I could...