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    Should I try to make friends in uni?

    Hey OP, were I to go to UNSW, I'd be your friend. I'm so intellectually stimulating about computers that South Park even based one of their characters on me.
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    99.60 | English Advanced State Rank (3rd in NSW) | Private Tutoring in Western Sydney

    Re: 99.60 | English Advanced State Rank (3rd in NSW) | Private Tutoring in Western Sy Would recommend rohit x 1000. He's more passionate about English and english literature than many English teachers. That's really saying something. In my experience, he also knows more about texts that he...
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    Raw marks - Advanced English & Geography

    Haha, the unpredictability of English. I wrote what was, in essence, the same essay for Module B in an assessment task and in the trials, I got 20 the first time around and was commended for my personal connection to the speeches, and a 14 the second time around and criticised for lacking...
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    Library

    For the current/past students of UWS: are the study rooms at UWS libraries bookable by non-students? This page seems to imply that they aren't, but it would be nice if someone could confirm. :) Thanks!
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    What is a technique in a text, how to i find them and what to write about them

    Here are some techniques in your post. Technique: pleading tone, invites people to want to help you "no idea" = idiom, hyperbole(?) despondent tone Italicisation for emphasis. Can't find anything here. Can talk more about tone.
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    2014 ATAR Scaling Report

    I think that you've reached the logical conclusion.
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    2014 ATAR Scaling Report

    Am I the only one surprised that studies of religion is scaled higher than modern history and biology?
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    Which school is best?

    Compsci/software/etc classes in Baulko are all self-taught, or so I've heard from people who've done it. Meaning that you get assigned tasks to do and you basically have to figure out how to do them yourself. The teachers usually teach woodwork/etc.
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    Related Text - Science Fiction

    Necroposting in case anyone in later years are interested: I'd recommend checking out Ray Bradbury's corpus of work. Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles and the Illustrated Man all spring to life (the last 2 are a collection of short stories reworked into novels so you can choose to do...
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    Multiple Choice Advice

    To build upon puneetnanda's post, you should preference first-order effects over secondary effects. Imagine if you had a question which asked you about the effects of a falling oil price on an energy-importing country, and two options included (A) lower inflation and (B) decreased income...
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    URGENT!! How do you make a personal connection to the text?

    Read some articles on JSTOR or some of those other places where academics publish papers about English literature. Pull some ideas from articles there. The more esoteric and abstract those ideas are, the more unique and personal your response will be. Alternatively, if your English teacher gives...
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    99.95 | State Ranker | Physics, Chemistry, Maths Tutoring

    Also another baulko student, I can confirm that Tom is the beast.
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    Is there any point in ordering raw marks?

    Yeah BOSTES decided that they had to be nice at least once during the year.
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    Share your ATAR here

    It's up to your externals, then. The most difficult thing for someone in your position is probably working out how you're going with regards to the rest of the state. Casually getting tutoring and going to things like Carrotsticks' Bored of Studies trials might offer some perspective. It's...
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    General question on economics essays

    900-1000 words would be ideal, and also, a diagram is worth around 50 words. You can definitely get away with 800, though.
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    Please Share Advice for 2015ers

    If you can study an English Extension 1 topic that you really enjoy, you should definitely do it (I did science fiction: it was amazingly cool and I ended up getting 49 in the subject, more than making up for 93 in Advanced). For English, it definitely helps to have a broad general knowledge of...
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    Carrotsticks' 2014 Extension 1 HSC Solutions

    It's out of 50 for 3 unit students and out of 100 for 4 unit students.
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    Ask mreditor16

    Lol Q25 and Q28 are quite hypothetical at the moment.
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    2014 HSC Extension 2 Maths Carrotsticks' Solutions

    Wait what??? Unless I'm tripping badly, my test paper clearly states that a≤b≤c. Your proof works perfectly fine if you fix up all of the inequality signs.
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    Predict Your Raw Mark

    Oh man down by at least 6 now. Rotated 11e around y-axis instead of x-axis (-3), didn't get question 16bi (probably at least -2), and got Q10 of MC wrong (-1). crud.
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