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    New SMH Article: Changes to English/SOR leaving students vulnerable

    My understanding is that scaling is based on the performance of the cohort of any subject on English. For example, chemistry scales well because its candidates do relatively well in English. I know this leaves gaps, but I'm pretty sure that's how it's worked out...
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    New SMH Article: Changes to English/SOR leaving students vulnerable

    You neglect to mention that 1) English must be compulsory to allow scaling to occur and 2) English skills are really essential in Australia, and the analytical skills you learn from English help in almost any profession in training your mind. Maths, while also important, is not as crucial. At...
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    What do you think you will score out of 60?

    Even if his ranks are genuine, which I doubt, that don't mean he's not a troll. Have you seen the things he's posted?
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    Do you smoke?

    Never; jeez, I can't even stand being around other people who smoke. I'd concede that it looks cool (in all seriousness) but the reality is otherwise
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    What do you think you will score out of 60?

    Just to feed a troll, you know as well as I do blue pen won't change anything. And spelling errors unless they're consistently horrible won't lose you marks
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    velocity/time graphs - HELP!!

    Just have intense sessions of staring at them, get heaps of those questions and just do em and you'll improve, that's all anyone can say I reckon. Treat it like any other graph.
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    Do you lose marks for having 2 related texts?

    It would be inequitable if they based it on best related, if there's any marker of any intelligence it'll be based on first
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    What's your favourite guitar brand?

    Acoustic, no clue. Electric, strats, they're most versatile, and they look sexy
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    Do you lose marks for having 2 related texts?

    Re: Called up Board of Studies regarding 2 related texts I think it was a mixture of people who didn't read the question, looked halfway through or at end, and went into a state of self-denial and continued on as normal anyway. If they really had extra time there was nothing much to lose
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    Why do you need only 94.5 for comm/law? o.O.

    Why do you need only 94.5 for comm/law? o.O.
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    What do you think you will score out of 60?

    Maybe...17 BR/F. 11-14 Yeats, 17 JC? Jeez I've gotta hope.
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    low band 5

    75/105? In previous years we've seen it's been around 85. That'd be some massive screwing around; I do wonder if by 'screw us over' you meant 'write a question we couldn't be bothered to read properly' though.
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    How many pages

    Lol you amuse me.
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    Is anyone going to miss english?

    Yeah I will a bit. As much as the way it was examined was irritating, most of what we did was pretty interesting, the analysis was fun.
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    low band 5

    Lol, I think a low band 6 is pushing it just a *little*.
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    low band 5

    I'd pay about 80
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