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    English Advanced vs English Standard

    Standard and advanced english scale the same. They use the AOS paper as a moderator. If they didn't have a common paper then Advanced would scale better. Standard is capped and you can't get band 6. However if you do well in the AOS paper it pulls your marks up. The top of standard is above...
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    trials- owen

    Well I did the catholic trials and in that they didn't. They can though but they'd probably give you the poem or an excerpt from it. Gems
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    Catholic Trials 2004 (CSSA)

    Who wanted answers for 2002 cath trial. I have the solutions to 2001, 2002 and 2003. If you tell me what the question is I can tell you what the solution is. I assume I can seeing as it's not this years paper. Gems
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    Catholic Trials 2004 (CSSA)

    There was a storyboard in section 2 for the archeaology thing. There was another story board in multimedia (BTW thanks for clearing that up for me). Whoever it was that said the stuff about the normalising question I think your right. I didn't quiet understand the question or something and...
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    has anyone done their ancient trial?

    I did mine this morning. I only finished it about an hour ago. Anyway I didn't think it was too bad. The Minoans questions were pretty easy. The 10 mark one for that was on what I'd writen an essay on (features of the palace). The Hatshepsut question wasn't too bad except that I couldn't...
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    HSC Trials format

    Yeah we're doing it HSC style so we get used to finding our questions and stuff. This is the last year that the ancient paper is done as it currently is. Their changing it next year cos it's caused too many problems. There gonna put a core study in on Pompei next year instead of the...
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    is majority of students in ur class girls?

    Well we only have 5 people in my class so I don't think you can really class it as a majority more like half half but we have 3 girls 2 guys. We actually have another guy but he's doing a different course to us (It's the IB an alternative to the HSC). Gems
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    CSSA Trial - thoughts/comments

    The Crime questions ijn the catholic trial were all about crime prevention and stuff. I don't know world order though cos we didn't do that. Gems
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    Catholic Trials

    Ye we were told that too but I've done exam papers where they haven't given the whole poem they've just given one or two lines.
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    CSSA Trial - thoughts/comments

    I didn't do so good. It was my 6th exam in the 4 days the exams have been running so by the time I got to it I guess I was a little sick of exams and wanted to get a break from them. I now get monday off before my next exam. I found crime hard because It was on the stuff I'd stopped at when I...
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    Catholic Trials 2004 (CSSA)

    Well I think I did alright. I wrote a heck of a lot. 10 pages. My options TPS and Multimedia. Oh I had a question for those who do multimedia. You know that question that said something about a storyboard. Did it just mean draw a storyboard for the site thing. I asked everyone after the exam...
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    Catholic Trials

    The Wilfred Owen question I can't remember it exactly. Hmm let me think.... I'll get back to you on it. Does anyone else remember it? We were told to know all of them because they can specify one in the question, but that in the question they could only ask for at least TWO poems to be...
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    Speaking Exam

    Yep I got my letter on Monday. I'm at 9am. I only do continuers so theres no other one for me. They changed the location though. It's normally at Gosford High but this time it's at Joeys. Oh well. The date for it is the 14th Lexicographer. Gems
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    Catholic Trials

    I don't see this thread up anywhere so I guess I'll start it. How did everyone go in Paper 2. I think I went alright. Got a bit of a shock with the Wilfred Owen question cos we'd been told they could only specify 2 and they had 3. I still think I did alright though. Section I I knew...
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    CSSA trial exam papers

    Well that wasn't so bad. I had Jap. this morning too so I only got about an hour between the two. Religion wasn't so bad. The ways of holiness essay was easy and the short answers weren't too bad. I could've done more on aboriginal but hey. English tommorrow. Gems
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    When's ur IPT trials?

    Mines on Thursday.
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    Catholic trial

    Jodes I've got a horrible timetable. Tommorrow - Jap. Morning, Religion Arvo Wednesday - English Thursday - IPT Morning, Legal Arvo Friday - Jap. Oral Tuesday - Ancient History
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    Catholic trial

    Well I didn't think it was too bad. It's given me confidence for all my other ones. Section one kindda threw me a bit. I wasn't expecting 4 texts but once I got over that I did alright. Section two I think I did fine in. I did that Are we there yet one and talked about yr 12. Section...
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    Let The Cath Trials Begin!

    I found the English AoS paper realitively easy. I think I might've messed up section one, but 2 and 3 I did heaps well in it was easy. If there all like that I'm set. Gems
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    Speaking Exam

    Yeah i was wondering when we get them too. I start trials next week so I'm not at school and the exams in the middle of those. I gather we get them tomorrow then. We'd kindda have too the can't expect us to go to an exam when they haven't told us what time it is.
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