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UMAT assesses things like your interpersonal skills, logic skills, communication skills, basically stuff the HSC doesn't directly test you on but is 'necessary' for a career such as a doctor. As for the different requirements, different unis may have different course requirements. That's...

Only if they end up counting for your UAI. If you only have 10 units and you flunk any of them, it will drag your UAI down, extension or not. If you have more than 10 units, you have a buffer in case that happens. I_F

It's a fine distinction. All alkanoic acids are carboxylic acids (contain COOH), but not all carboxylic acids are alkanoic acids. Alkanoic acids must be derived from alkane molecules, i.e. have a straight chain hydrocarbon with single bonds only (apart from the COOH group). Carboxylic acids on...

Ummm... that should be a few drops of concentrated sulfuric acid, I think. That's definitely what we used. Dilute sulfuric acid is used when hydrating ethylene to make ethanol. I_F

You might not have enough current just out of the battery - we connected ours to a power pack for some more juice. You can also try strengthening the magnetic field (we had two sets of three bar magnets taped together for a nice strong field). Also, you may need to hold the connections on the...

Or your pH meter may have been incorrectly calibrated or slightly defective. I_F

- Work ahead in Chemistry - Complete Economics dot points - Finish Volumes and revise Integration in 4-unit - Read over English notes for BNW and complete assigned radio play I_F

My advice would be to do as well as you possibly can in assessments and the final exams, and ignore everything else about the process - the scaling, aligning, and calculation of marks is not in your control, whereas how well you do in the exam is. If you can top/come close to the top of your...

We did for Prelim (3 unit). Then we realised that it wasn't actually the best one we had, and switched to Fitzpatrick to finish the 2 unit and 3 unit courses. They're OK theory-wise, but the questions aren't too taxing - that's where Fitpatrick has it beat. To answer your question in the other...

Since the question has "explain", you need to go into a little detail. Something like: Metals at the atomic level are composed of metal ions surrounded by a 'sea' of delocalised electrons that aren't attached to any particular metal ion and can hence move around fairly easily. It is this sea of...

If you lift the object into the air, "r" increases, meaning that the absolute value of the GPE decreases. However, since GPE is negative, this "decrease" turns into an increase (i.e. the GPE goes from a big negative to a smaller negative, which means it's getting bigger). The GPE is negative...

We've finished the first part of Ideas to Implementation, and we'll be starting Quanta to Quarks about 6 weeks into next term. :) I_F

Conventional current is not really a current at all. We now know that electricity is a flow of electrons - negatively charged particles. Before this was discovered, it was assumed that it was a positive charge that moved, and various theories were developed with this erronous information. Those...

So according to you, repetition improves neither accuracy nor reliability. How close are the results to the bulls eye? The standard deviation, which "fluctuates both up and down around a horizontal midline", tells us, yes? Low deviation, mean value as the bulls eye equals high accuracy, no...

Currency speculation is recorded under "Other Investment" on the Financial account. Australians speculating by buying foreign currencies is a debit (money goes out because the currency is not used for trade, but held for short-term gains), and foreigners buying $AUD is a credit (money comes in)...

Go to Tools -> Options. Under the "View" tab, uncheck "Text Boundaries" (under "Print and Web Layout Settings"), and press OK. That will get rid of them. I_F

I really don't get what you mean here, and your arguments don't connect together. If your equipment is calibrated wrong, repeating is not going to make it more accurate - you'll just get more inaccurate results. Recalibrating the equipment will improve your accuracy. Repetition won't, since...

Wrong. An experiment cannot produce a certain spread of results unless it is carried out repeatedly. If I do the experiment once, is there a spread? If it is carried out ten times and the close cluster of results obtained, the results are reliable. If it is carried out even more times and you...

Note too that there isn't a huge 300 billion lump on the balance of payments because the balance records net figures - i.e. the deficits or surpluses in the categories, and not the actual inflows and outflows. There's a lot of speculative funds going in and coming out of Australia, so the net...

We use the Dixon (Leading Edge), but our Economics teacher has swapped to Riley for this year's Prelim class because he feels there aren't enough numbers and calculations in the Dixon book. Apart from that, I wish Dixon had some more comprehensive content, but I'm pretty happy with it. Our...