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I'm doing both 4 units... It is a lot of work -- a one unit subject normally has about the same work load (and a similar number of assessments) as a two unit subject; so it's the same work for half the units. As everyone else has been saying, you do need two other subjects, not just one. I'd...

I know the competitive nature of selective schools has both good and bad aspects. Personally, I find that it pushes me to do the best I can do; it stops me getting complacent and simply coasting. However, it does put students under more stress. But the reason I'm really for selective schools...

Practice essays not only help you get your thoughts together (which I know I struggle to do quickly), but they help you refine and improve your essay writing for the topic; which means that what you write in the exam will be the product of this refining and improving. I guess you don't have to...

I'm relatively ambivilent towards most of my texts (although I passionately hate 'Antony and Cleopatra'...), but I really, really enjoyed 'The Real Inspector Hound' in English Extension 1. It was just... it made me laugh, and it was fun, and it was utterly insane, but in a good way. I really...

The externals are worth 50% -- so you do still have half of your assessment to go. It depends on how you do from here on.

Re: Early Entry for 2009 anyone? I'm applying for a double degree in creative arts/law, and on the online application for law, there's a little drop-down box asking what degree/combination you want to do. Maybe there's something similar for your combination?

It's a piece of writing in virtually whatever medium you want (short story, poetry, critical response, script, video, multimedia, radio play, etc.). The length varies from medium to medium, for example, for a short story, it's 6000-8000 words, for a script, it's about 30 minutes. Your concept...

The best mark I've ever gotten in an English essay was the one time I went in with one (largely) memorised. I mean, I edited the intro and conclusion to suit the question, and I didn't write it entirely word for word (though I'd suspect it was close), but I used the same structure, the same...

I don't think maths should be compulsory. It's not because I don't like the subject -- I'm doing Extension 2 -- but because I don't think that most HSC maths is particularly applicable to day-to-day life. Maths does teach important things we need to be able to do -- adding, subtracting...

It's not suicide. I'm doing both and enjoying both -- and I'm not the only one at my school. The problem I see with extension subjects isn't that they're a massive amount of work (though they are a lot); more that each one unit subject has the same amount of assessments and stress as a two...

I'm wondering what UTS's Communications in Writing and Cultural Studies degree is like? At the moment I'm tossing up between trying it and UoW Creative Writing degree - since writing fiction is what I really enjoy doing. (USyd and UNSW don't have any courses in that area, as far as I can see.)...

Doing part papers does help you get used to doing exam style questions, so you have an idea of what to expect in the exam. I tend to start off by doing them untimed, and with my notes in front of me, so that I can look up stuff I don't know, and get used to the style of question. Once I'm used...

Yes, assessments are the major work and your reflections on the process of writing it -- so what medium you work in is entirely up to you. If poetry or whatever isn't your thing, then you don't have to do it. It's a very free subject. You can write pretty much anything (so long as you can link...

Most crime fiction both uses and subverts conventions. I mean, most texts don't use all the conventions of the genre (and of the subgenre they belong to). They use them differently, and to different extents. For example, 'The Big Sleep' doesn't solve all the murders (the chauffers gets...

I'm not 100% sure, but I think style refers more to how the composer uses language -- so techniques would be language related: metaphors, similes, alliteration. Structure relates more to how it fits together, how it's ordered/organised, so you could talk about how different ideas are used in...

I did an accelerated course last year, but my pin doesn't work any more... The same happened last year, with my pin from the year before that. Seems like I'll be getting another new pin this year.

Typed, because they're neater and easier to read. (Except maths, since typing formulas is a pain.) I tend to use my notes as a reference, rather than for memorising, so it helps to be able to read them quickly. I actually learn the stuff when writing practice essays or doing practice questions.

I don't think English is compulsory... And I'm doing four units of it. It's no more important than our other subjects. Maths, history, legal studies, sciences, computing, they're all relevant and are all important. But they're not compulsory. And nor should they be. Everyone has different...

The board of studies requirements state that students have to do at least four subjects. I'm wondering: are extensions separate subjects by this rule - for example, is maths extension 2 counted as a separate subject to maths extension 1? If they're not, do those four different subjects have...

Age: 17 Sex: Female Name of School, University, or your occupation: Hurlstone Agricultural High School Suburb: The school's is Glenfield. 1. When you were (or are) at high school, how did you feel about your uniform? I'm currently in year 12, and I don't like my school's uniform. Why? The girls...