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    Modern History General Questions and Essay Help Thread

    I was wondering if you could send a sample to me also through private message. I am also struggling to breach that 20/ 25 and I'm having trouble analyzing, or giving examples without explaining.
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    Modern History General Questions and Essay Help Thread

    Hi. Recently got back my assessment task 2 for modern and really disappointed. I only scored a 17/ 25. My ranking for my first assessment was =1, and in this assessment it is =18, and my accumulative rank is now 6. I really need to know how to improve. The test was on two questions South Africa...
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    Modern History General Questions and Essay Help Thread

    Hi was wondering if anyone has studied/ is learning either South Africa national study or Nelson Mandela. The HTA study guides don't cover these topics and textbooks have limited information for each dotpoint. Similarly HSC Online is the only place to go, but the info is an exact replica of...
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    Urgent! Did/ Is anyone studying South Africa 1960-1994 and/ or Nelson Mandela

    Hi. My school is doing south africa and nelson mandela as they are inextricably linked. But the problem is that most of the HTA study guides don't cover these two topics, they mostly cover Germany, russia, USA which I feel is a bit biased and unfair as those students would have more resources...
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    Modern History General Questions and Essay Help Thread

    urgent question cos I have a test on monday. when doing a personality or national study question where you are asked to give your judgement, do you have to either agree or disagree or can you partially agree but also disagree. because my teacher says if you don't present your judgement in the...
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    Eng. Ext. Assessment weighted at 15 percent have large bearing on Final mark e.g. E4

    Re: Eng. Ext. Assessment weighted at 15 percent have large bearing on Final mark e.g. cool. how are you finding it?
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    Eng. Ext. Assessment weighted at 15 percent have large bearing on Final mark e.g. E4

    Re: Eng. Ext. Assessment weighted at 15 percent have large bearing on Final mark e.g. yes. I am doing Romanticism!! I don't know why I put After the Bomb, my friend in the other ext. class does after the bomb, might have been thinking about that. sorry, yes it is Romanticism. lol. thanks, this...
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    Eng. Ext. Assessment weighted at 15 percent have large bearing on Final mark e.g. E4

    just had my first Eng. Ext essay on After the Bomb as the assessment task. Not too confident as I spent far too much time on one argument, and only wrote half a page for other too arguments, without proper conclusion. It was a time management issue. not feeling very confident, however I'm trying...
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    When are you going to start revising for the Half-Yearlies?

    I think spend these holidays really understanding the topics you studied in term 4 and getting your study notes sorted. Obviously you'll start new topics in term one, so it's all about consistency in maintaining what you know. Obviously the intricate details will not be remembered until exam...
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    Picking up science again in uni WITHOUT a bridging course?

    Some books: Chemistry and Contexts Excel Biology/ Chemistry Cambridge Mathematics Fitzpatrick Mathematics 2 unit Chemistry - Silberberg Human Biology 6th edition. You can find books on Human biology and histology from book depository, uni libraries. Human biology textbooks are key to...
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    2015 Main Round Cut-Offs

    Where can you find the list of main round offers of all students who received an offer. I know SMH usually has a 'search for students' to find friends and family you know. I haven't been able to contact some friends and I want to know whether they got into their desired courses?
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    Was what the teacher said fair?

    That was totally unacceptable of your teacher! I mean, regardless of whether you have a tutor or not, the most basic aim for a teacher is to help a student in any problems they have with maths-related questions. I think your teacher is incompetent, I mean its great she's organising this study...
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    Holidays

    I've been mostly doing revision from last term and getting my study notes sorted. I do history, so I'm doing source booklets for specially Ancient History, where I find archaeological, written sources, artefacts from the time. I've also been reading some english ext. related texts, doing my two...
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    URGENT!! creative writing ideas for Romanticism

    Hi, I have a creative writing assignment to do for romanticism, and I'm stressing out cos I haven't got any ideas. Please help!!
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    What to write about in a Romanticism creative writing exam?

    I know you need to reflect the context of the time. But what should the story be about. Like I read a story from a 2010 HSC paper that included a letter. But it was basically about a wealthy girl who finds a letter from her dead father about him giving money to another man, and how she thinks...
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    To all band 6-ers of Romanticism! How to ace Romanticism?

    I'm doing Romanticism. I'm still trying to grasp the concepts. Any tips or advice about what Romanticism in creative writing or essay writing? Any tips for types of related texts or what to talk about in the essay?
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    How to use music as a related text in romanticism?

    I was thinking along the lines of Chopin, but I'm not sure what to discuss like the techniques of the piece, dynamics or the context and meaning of the piece.
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    Modern History General Questions and Essay Help Thread

    Also, I doing some study notes right now for WW1 on impacts of the war on the homefront. I really want to do a few practice questions but I can't because most of the detailed knowledge I had from last term I have to review again because I've forgotten! How often do you reccomend studying for...
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    HSC Marker admits that some markers only read intro of essay!?

    If anyone has some time, could you do my society and culture questionnaire on religion. The link is to survey monkey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Y2KLZQ9 thanks, :)
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    what are the raw marks for the English HSC paper(s) to get band 6

    if you have any time, could you do this questionnaire on religion for my society and culture major project work.The survey monkey link is: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Y2KLZQ9 thanks :)
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