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    Australian Science Olympiads

    Re: Olympiads The exams for aso are timetabled to ensure fairness and integrity of the exam like the hsc. No one has been accepted for training in Canberra invitations will be given out during october-november through your school if you are in the top 23-25 in Australia.
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    How was your school day?

    Zomg my bio teacher cant teach!!! ^ I just sleep during bio or bludge and learn the stuff by my self. I got my modern mark back today for a source analysis speech for the major investigation i was one of the few who got 10/10. Yesterday the english head teacher at my school was...
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    English Ext 1: What the hell?!

    In the HSC your exam is half critical and half creative you can never avoid the creative ascpect of english. Even in EE2 you must you creativity in any piece of writing even in a critical major work you must use something that isn't blase and create a hybrid essay.
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    Fort St...

    I said Fort St and not average schools is around half asian from what i've heard. no offence to asians, im asian. Fort St is a decent selective school and beat mine last year. Do a search on 'Fort Street' in BOS, many students say that their science teachers are crap. Deltan: one...
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    Transition to selective

    Which selective school?
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    Australian Science Olympiads

    Re: Olympiads For those of you who dont know www.aso.edu.au entries closed in July. I have met two people in person who were doing both chem and physics olympiads, one guy from normo and one from maq fields. Quite a few people especially from selective schools like NSB/G, SHS, Ruse, Baulko...
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    Fort St...

    I dont go there but everyone has been most of their science teachers are crap. Students around half asian. Some gangstas, popular groups etc like any school except for ruse. Go for it you can always go back to your old school. It can be hard settling in, i changed to go to selective last...
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    Transition to selective

    Zomg, I changed schools to Penrith last year but im in yr 11 this year. If you dont study or catch up work when you come to a selective school your results will most likely drop to the 65-80's level. Hey DH123 about 10 new applicants get into yr 11 prob more this year. It's not really...
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    HSC Subject Selections

    Some info from UAC: http://www.uac.edu.au/pubs/download.html "A question that is often posed concerns the relationship between the number of units studied and the UAI: ‘Do students gain a better UAI if they study more units?’ The data in Table A7 in the Appendix show that students with high...
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    HSC Subject Selections

    You'll only have 10 units next year if you drop both extensions, thus leaving with you with no safety net if you bomb an exam. I would keep both extensions and try to improive. It depends on what selective school you go to, but it dosent really make a big difference. You cant compare maths...
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    Math Text Books

    I should of read the preface *Runs out to buy 3U Cambridge Y12*
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    Science Notes!!!!!!!!

    Yeah it takes a while, it took a month for my resources to be added.
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    HSC Subject Selections

    Just ignore the teacher, ask other modern dhistory teachers for help when you need it, ask them to mark essays etc. Do 12 units you need a safety net in case you bomb an exam, i love modern history but i have a crap teacher, it's up to you to put in the effort, research and study...
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    Math Text Books

    It seems stupid they would put plane geo, probability into yr 12 when most schools teach it in yr 11 and it's in most yr 11 textbooks.
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    After the HSC...

    Professor Gunther von Hagen is freaky, his show is now on around 10:30pm every monday night on SBS and is about autopsys(yes on a real human body infront of a sell-out crowd), plastination of body, etc. His sick site(note: Viewer discretion advised, contains pictures of real bodies turned...
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    Harry's Mathematics?

    Yeah the physics teacher at harrys is one of the authors of Physics in context.
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    HSC Subject Selections

    Zomg!!!, ^ same with maths-also way too many asians kicking my ass at ext no offence(im azn), im doing 4u english for a critical piece, i suck at creative writing, help me.
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    HSC Subject Selections

    I got my subject selection form today!!! Please post up your prelim subjects and the hsc subjects you've chosen and if you've changed subjects or dropped please tell us why. Prelim: 3u Maths 3u English Bio Chem Modern HSC: 2u maths 4u English Bio Chem Modern History...
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    Australian Science Olympiads

    Yeah, i've done hapes of work in bio olympiad i even bought the text book $130 and over 1000 paes :( Eeep!!! 4 people do chem, 4 others do physics, 4 inc me do bio at my school, but none of them except me take it seriously, theirs one chick who contacted me on BOS, cant remember who but shes...
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    Math Text Books

    It covers all the hard stuff of the 2unit course, stuff like prob, plane geomety etc has been left out of cambridge, most people at ruse use both cambridge 3u and 2U fitzpatrick (yellow book) and 3u fitzpatrick(green/aqua colour). The fitzpatrick books cover the entire course.
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