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    What Is Normalisation?!?!?!

    Try http://databases.about.com/od/specificproducts/a/normalization.htm
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    Study Hours

    Andrew Martin, major researcher on high school academic performance, was asked this during a presentation. He said that Principals usually tell him they expect students to do (the equivalent of) 45 hour study week in Year 11, including about 22 hours of lessons. 50 hour study week in Year 12...
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    ANOTHER Question PHYSics this time lols

    Cosine rule is good to remember. I guess your Physics teacher must be 70, JM. Before hand held calculators (1970s) drawing was the usual way to solve these - to 3 significant figures. It's pretty quick.
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    Love of success or fear of failure?

    Good question. I heard education-researcher Andrew J Martin speak recently. He said he found five types of students: Success-seeking - aiming for Personal Bests and achieving them.:wave: Success-avoiding - underachieving so they don't stand out. Failure-avoiding - working to avoid failure, or...
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    DET policies that you may not have known...

    You can refuse a teacher anything, if you don't mind a sanction or detention or whatever for uncooperative behaviour. You raise the teacher's blood pressure, waste some class time, be a hero or a jerk depending on the teacher's cred. If you whinge about it, you look stupid.
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