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    HSC Modern History 2016 Marathon

    I can't crack the 23/25 barrier in Modern. I consistently achieve 23s and have got one 19/20 but the 24-25/25 for essays within exams continue to elude me. I would consider myself to be very well versed in the actual Sylabi so I think this is a perhaps a literacy or comprehension problem, how...
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    Atar estimate

    They are completely unrealistic and inspire false hope.
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    Atar estimate

    The real joke is the estimates on this forum
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    How do I get an "A" grade without reading my texts

    I'm competing with this one guy for 1st in Modern. I do at least 10x the work he does but he writes in this impenetrable academic jargon which gives the marker the impression that he might know what he is talking about, despite him having no idea. Obviously it's far more effective that my plain...
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    How do I get an "A" grade without reading my texts

    So am I. How far can you really get in English without reading your texts?
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    How do I get an "A" grade without reading my texts

    Yeah but critical thinking in the weakest sense of the term.
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    How do I get an "A" grade without reading my texts

    Not all subjects promote critical thinking to any degree, some are almost entirely rote.
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    How do I get an "A" grade without reading my texts

    I find that the subjects I am doing very much promote critical thinking, depends a great deal on what you do.
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    How do I get an "A" grade without reading my texts

    Deeply disappoints me that people do this. English is about fostering a relationship with English literature and its influences not only superficially in the artistic sense, but in the political and philosophical. From a purely academic perspective. If you do the same amount of work as someone...
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    Germany National Study: The Classics

    Has everyone touched them? AJP Taylor's The Course of German History AJP Taylor's The Origins of the Second World War Alan Bullock's Hitler: A Study in Tyranny Richard Overy's/Andrew Wheatcroft's The Road to War Richard Evan's The Coming of the Third Reich William L. Shirer's The Rise...
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    Conflict in Europe

    Anyone feel this is biased towards the west? There is a almost unconscious sense of parity between the battle of El Alamein and Stalingrad that similarly applies to the equalisation of "'D' Day" and the "Russian Counter Offensives" which BOS is perhaps referring to Operation Bagration. (Plus...
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