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Awesome! Fantastic work! :D If your HSC efforts were anything akin to this, you're sure to do well. :)

Mm, yes, I suppose you're right... being used as a noun and not a verb. Either way, I don't think it's nearly as problematic as most people are making it out to be. (Edit: jumb and miss_salty beat me to it.)

The Board's glossary defines "extract" as follows: They obviously expected students to be very liberal in their interpretation of the word. (Edit: But in this case it's being used as a noun and not a verb. It's still not a big deal.)

See this thread.

The cut-offs will be recalculated for 2005 when all preferences are locked in on 6 January.

It would require the completion of the Preliminary Extension 1 course (Yr 11). Not sure if that's what you're asking - otherwise, listen to Estel. :)

Ranks are not compared across the state. Essentially, your assessment marks will be moderated to have a similar distribution to the examination marks gained by your class. The HSC exams are used as a statewide 'benchmark' to moderate the assessment marks from each school, thus placing them...

The latter would probably be the closest to the truth, but we don't know, because the Board refuses to release all raw band cut-offs.

Define "crap UAI". You'll also need to tell us whether IT is Industrial Technology or Information Technology.

Standard and Advanced English are combined and scaled as a single course. Because so many students take it, the scaling is always average - neither up nor down. (Note that 'aligning' is different. See this flowchart for an overview.)

Aligning also takes into account the difficulty of the exam - harder papers result in higher aligning.

The scaled mean for the combined Standard/Advanced candidature will always be close to the average (25.0) because the course is taken by so many students. You should be more concerned with your other courses. :)

No - schools play no part in the aligning process. In general: Raw marks will be aligned up if the examination paper was too difficult. Raw marks will be scaled up if the students taking that course were 'very able' students (i.e. they tended to do well in all the courses they took)...

You can do it whenever you want, so long as it's during the HSC exam period!

The title says it all. Tune in to 104.90 FM to listen or phone in (1 333 53) and ask questions!

The title says it all. Tune in to 104.90 FM to listen or phone in (1 333 53) and ask questions!

Yes, those equations are fine. You can't have, for example, the sine or cosine rules on there (A/sin A = B/sin B etc). It should also specify on the packet whether or not they're appropriate examination materials.

No, but we'd like it to be related to the HSC in some way. :) That is disturbing on so many different levels... We'll add today's works to the DA list tonight!

Varying your total English HSC mark is very different to varying the mark for an individual question. SAM only accepts aligned marks anyway - the analysis was conducted with regard to raw marks. :) (See <a href="/other/flowchart.pdf">this flowchart</a> for details.)

Typo - corrected. Thanks.