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    Is there a limit on the days of you can take in year 11 set by BOS?

    Is that for your school or in general?
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    Memorising Essays

    What about just memorising generic sentences, or even just phrases? You could then arrange them to suit the question, changing a few words here and there, so you could have the benefits of memorising (ie having smart-sounding sentences) while also having the benefits of not memorising (ie...
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    What's your fav subject so far?

    Physics has taken a turn for the better, now that we have a new teacher :D
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    When are the yearlies?

    Or maybe your school has a calendar of important events? - sometimes schools put exam periods in...
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    Proposed improvements to Higher School Certificate exams

    If you gave everyone a piece of brightly coloured paper and said they could only write on that sheet during the perusal time, then you could just have the examiners standing at strategic places and looking at the colours of papers students were writing on, and if they started writing on white...
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    Bad Marking

    Haha, that's what I thought, so I didn't put it in :( They wanted a bibliography because we had to teach ourselves a topic, so they wanted us to prove that the sites/books we learned from were decent or something. It was apparently for "justification" or something. Oh well...
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    Bad Marking

    I'll have to start doing the same thing then :D or in my case, actually make up a bibliography from all the websites I wrote down...
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    Bad Marking

    I got a mark, rank and VHA10 taken away from me for something as well. I didn't attach a bibliography. In a maths assignment. So I feel you both.
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    Chemistry; Tips on writing up practicals?

    I thought you were supposed to only use third person/past tense in experiment write-ups? Off-topic, but one of my science teachers was telling us about her PhD the other day. Apparently in the whole thing (ie 100 000 words or so) her conclusion was only one paragraph long :D
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    The Pros and Cons of Prefect Duties

    Nah, that's alright. I still think it's cool that every single new page in this thread starts with one of my posts :D
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    The Pros and Cons of Prefect Duties

    Damn, and after all those posts I made in this thread...
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    Differences between a good student and an Excellent student

    Based on what I've seen: 1. Taking control of your own learning. That is, if there is something you don't understand, do something about as soon as you realise. Go to another textbook, ask friends/teachers/parents to explain, do extra homework until you understand it. Don't just wait for...
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    Chemistry Problem

    All hail wikipedia.
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    Yr 11 performance

    Obviously a lot of people tied...
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    Study Methods

    And do it for fun.
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    2008 Preliminary Roll Call

    Since Aplus isn't doing the honours, I'll take his place for now :D Welcome to BOS. Also, I *really* know what you mean about Biology :burn:
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    Chemistry Problem

    Pretty much, yeah.
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    Chemistry Problem

    Oops about Avagadro's constant. Thanks :D I'm pretty sure the formula units thing is right though. They'd have asked for number of atoms if they wanted that, surely?
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    Chemistry Problem

    n = no of rep. particles/ NA (n = number of moles, NA = Avagadro's number, rep. particles in this case being formula units) 7.5 = x/NA x = 7.5 x 6.02x10-23 = some number I think? I hope? Chemistry exam on Wednesday, on the same topic...
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    Study Methods

    My major study 'method' is making sure I understand something inside out before moving on. How I do that depends on the subject and topic, I guess. For maths and physics, it's do lots of questions, and try to derive the equations so they get fixed in my mind For biol and chem, it's write...
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