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Hear, hear. Bring back the old syllabus! What should the discriminator between a 'good' and a 'not so good' student be? On a personal level, I agree. On a societal level, it is an interesting consideration, but I don't think you're being realistic. You seem to want to change the 'new...

hmmm... I've done two, one gave me 168, the other 158. Personally, I think they're a load of crap, and inaccurate.

No, i don't think it's bullshit at all, what he said. But I also think that some subjects such as SDD, IPT, IT, Business Studies, even English etc. need more of a social context because they are based on social change and context. Subjects like science and maths also have this context and...

:D lol, BlackJack do the words 'you are a tosser' sound familiar at all to anyone else?

yes, it is indeed unfortunate that we have all been sucked into this HSC. Because as much as we're dissing it, I'll bet we've all learnt to follow our textbooks to the letter and address every dot point meticulously. We wouldn't be pulling it apart so if we didn't feel confined by it...

why am I not surprised?

err, why is it impossible for a group of people who are different to commit and focus on a wide range of subjects?

I like that thought. :D That's when it sucks. For some, it's deciding what they want to do in life that's the problem and what makes them work really hard at all their subjects just to 'be able to get into whatever they would maybe like to do later'. For others, they can't get there fast...

I think what we're really talking about here is the need for a total overhaul of not just the maths and science syllabi, but the entire HSC. Otherwise, we're just whinging as a result of being individuals with different strengths and different ways of thinking, and perhaps intelligent enough to...

I think it's got something to do with them shoving all the people who left school after year 10 in the bottom percentile range to bump everyone else up. This is due to the fact that with the new standards-based marking scheme, only about 10% people get below 50 in their subjects, significantly...

7(b) was just binomial theorem expansion. There was a similar one in Barker's trial this year.

hmmm...animal entrails are eaten in more places than just asia, I think...*contemplates self-cannibalism and cringes* ok...revise. Royal flush: 1/649740 Straight flush: 3/216580 four of a kind: 1/4165 (13* 48 ways) full house: 6/4165 flush: 1277/649740 straight: 5/1274 three of a...

ah Blackjack, sorry i missed the fun. to make up for it, I did all of them. (it was either that or banked tracks) Order of winning hands (power) royal flush/routine =1/649740 straight flush = 3/216580 four of a kind = 13/49980 full house = 6/4165 flush = 33/16660 straight =...

I did something similar...I wrote mine based on new historicist and psycho-family drama interpretations and how production techniques could bring it out, etc. etc.

I got k=1/21 as well... ?

lol no, that's fine. my answer was only off because I didn't know that you could have the extra 10, J, Q, K, A arrangement So I had only 9 different number arrangements, and then I multiplied by 4^5/52C5 to get 9216/2598960. A lack of knowledge of poker, rather than a mathematical...

Another question Calculate the probability of getting a straight (five consecutive cards, any suit) in a game of poker First: I've never played poker; can a straight cross the end of the number values, ie. jack, queen, king, ace, two? if so, I didn't account for them in my calculations...

Another question Calculate the probability of getting a straight (five consecutive cards, any suit) in a game of poker First: I've never played poker; can a straight cross the end of the number values, ie. jack, queen, king, ace, two? if so, I didn't account for them in my calculations...

thank you

My ideal question would be a completely creative question which allowed me to develop my own subversions of the genre (which is what I've been working on most of the year). I think the knowledge about conventions, values, contexts should be brought through in the essay-type question, not the...