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No I think we're happy now. Fed up with 6 pages of saying the same thing.

:p

Yes, the argument that depth IS NOT the determinant, but I'm arguing that it SHOULD BE. And I remember you arguing about how people who actually know what they're doing get low marks. It's because these ppl have depth, and the exams don't assess that as a good thing.

One word. Depth.

Yes I do. It'll just revert back to the old syllabus. I have less complaints about the old syllabus. How crazy is their exclusion, Zeech? Knowing about social and political issues to each topic is "interesting", but it shouldn't be used to differentiate between a "good" student and a...

Weisy's got a good pt. Depends on the topic, really. I can't imagine legal studies without political/social context.

Do you even realise that it's exactly how propaganda has been, and is still being inserted into our education system? You do NOT need to know how the Haber process has helped Germany last so long in WW1, to be able to understand equilibrium. Nor do you need to know "Planck's and Einstein's...

My controversial post has probably gotten everyone's heads into a spin. Let me explain in plain english: Bloodypossum's idea that the HSC and the unis are really looking for commitment and focus allows him to conclude that those who "work their ass off" deserve the top marks. 1) He's...

Zeech, Maybe you should've addressed this message to Bloodypossum, because you've just illustrated my point. My point was that the different subjects are there so that we have a choice to be assessed by different measures (of science, maths, business, and others), not as different flavours...

If they're looking for focus and commitment, then I've got a brilliant suggestion. Why not just combine all the subjects into one big subject, call it "10 Unit Work" or something, which specifically tests for how well, and how much we can regurgitate a wide range of different types of...

Shouldn't worry too much about how BOS scales your mark. The UAC people will re-work the marks to where they should be. Like, I hear last year lots of ppl who got really good marks from BOS, were surprised at their relatively shit UAI. The bit about how your mark is measured by outcomes is...

That's no excuse for making science subjects into humanities: "Discuss the impacts on society and environment of the invention of blablabla". If people don't like science, they don't have to do it. Even in senior high school, we have the choice of doing / not doing any subject, and by screwing...

Ahh...I've tracked you down. Great work I know a couple of int'l olympians at my school too...but they're all science ones...

Who?

Did anyone see one of the questions (i think it was from the catholic this yr...?) It was like: they give you two pictures: a photo of a treatment plant, and a diagrammatic flow-chart of the processes. and the question was like: "You are studying the process of water treatment used in NSW...

Bon, a net forum is not a place to show off your spelling skills. Get over it!

just out of curiosity: how does Sourie do general maths and extension2 maths at the same time?

Yes, i got that too..

But you'll be scaled more if you get an 80% in a blody hard test, than if you get an 80% in a piss-easy one...?

Actually I've had a talk with some science professor once, he's pissed too about the science HSC at NSW, because the students that top the HSC science don't really have the science skills needed to do well at Uni science. So they think they do well at science at high school and they find out...