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the exams were comparatively easy.... except considering its sposed to be the culmination of 13yrs of schooling im disappointed with myself coz i reckon i coulda put more effort in... ah well it still wasnt too bad :)

yeah in the 3hr exams, even when i ate literally just b4 we went in, by about halfway my stomach was rumbling again and i was starving

yeah I sorta left studying to the last minute for all exams where i had a huge gap i only studied the night b4 for extension hist which was my last - coz i had ancient the day b4

also mind maps sometimes help coz if u can visualise the page and where the points are on it it helps some ppl remember them more effectively

a guy who did the hsc last yr told us that the best way for him was to just set aside a certain time period every day or however frequently (but keep it strict) and study during that time also i did it this yr and i found that just reading the text book to revise isnt enough - i try and do...

another book - its not only on grammar an punctuation but on the whole english language which i tthought was pretty funny and interesting :) "The Mother Tongue" by Bill Bryson

well here it is... hope the attachment works... lol btw it had to be under 1500 words and the essay itself is 1499 :) oh yeah hehe anyway enjoy its not that great - lol i lost a mark simply because i forgot to put page numbers in my footnotes... ah well

i basically interpreted it similarly - it notes that the community still needs to experience "the old role of history" ie metanarrative nationalistic etc etc and that history today has become too marginalised and academic and when its shown to the public it is imposed on them or whatever - meh i...

yeah i used another E H carr quote for it in ref. to the statement about researching the historian or whatever it was "before we study history we must study the historian. Before we study the historian we must study his environment" pretty apt so yeah :) overall wasnt too bad - ive had...

historiography - 10 appeasement - 14

my essay was all about the purpose of the mysterious incan city machu picchu My question was: Machu Picchu: Remote Refuge, Religious Residence or Royal Resort? "Analyse the reasons for the development of historiographical debate in explaining the purpose of Machu Picchu to the Incas"...

lol so true - at the end i had used 4 extra booklets - a little bit for each q - and for some reason nobody gave us string so i asked the exam supervisor man for 4 pieces of string and he said "no u cant have 4 pieces there are only 3 questions!" - i then proceeded to explain to him that i used...

sounds right to me :)

hehe cool - were the copious amounts of majorwork time bearable?

yeah its the same for me - i have a fair amount of knowledge in my brain so cramming wont really be cramming just revising - but yeah i just want it to end - gah hsc takes too long... then again im glad they werent all squished in together.... meh

i would like to thank my uncle's pet rock Eric who encouraged me to give my all

personality - 10 society - answer booklet + 2 historical period - 9 and a bit additional society- 7 and a half

yeah in general sparta wasnt too bad - i cant believe i bloody put that spartans were in the army from 30-60 instead of 20-60 but hey what can u do

Cleopatra Sparta Old Kingdom from unification to end of dyn 6 Old kingdom dyn 3-6 the questions werent too bad and i studied fairly solidly.... i dunno i coulda done better they were all pretttty good but i could have done better oh well :) one more to go tomorrow then its gone...

well less than 12 hours to go and i probably should be asleep .... if they ask me certain 25 mark questions ill be fine.... if they ask others.... lets just say its not very good if they ask others