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    How do you write a thesis when you get an essay instruction rather than question?

    Sometimes teachers allocate an instruction rather than a question, but a thesis is meant to answer the essay question. For example, critically evaluate Caesar in terms of his significance in the play. How would I write a thesis for this as it is an instruction?
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    What do you do in your exam reading time?

    You know that 5 minutes you get to read only during the exam. Never figured out what how to fully allocate the 5 minutes. Wanna share your experience? Specify the subject.
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    Effect of rhyming schemes?

    Whenever a poem is analysed the rhyming scheme is always mentioned, but I never see it analysed or explained. What effect does the rhyming scheme have?
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    How does the law of conservation of momentum apply to the motion of the rocket?

    Is this sufficient to gain 2/2 marks? While the rocket is launching, the burning fuel rapidly expels hot gases from the rear. The total momentum of the rocket is initially zero. At launch, the exhaust gases have momentum backwards, so the rocket must have an equal momentum forwards to...
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    How to excel in senior year studies (yr 11/12)-99+ ATAR graduate

    Re: How to excel in senior year studies (yr 11/12) Do you have advice for learning new 4 unit content? They tend to be new concepts and sometimes are difficult to learn. Then after learning them any advice for practicing them? I heard past papers are great, but I only have access to the hsc papers.
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    Selling: 2015 'DISCOVERY' notes! + related text notes!

    Can you pm me a sample of the Robert Gray content?
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    ATAR question

    Let's say there are 2 people. A who has 12 units and B with 10 units. A does 4 unique subjects from B, but does one subject, which is the same B say economics. Person A beats person B in economics, but he gains a higher ATAR from counting his other 10 units, so including economics will lower his...
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    Selling HSC Economics Notes (97) & Sorted HSC Questions | 98 External (96/100 Raw) |

    Re: Selling HSC Economics Notes (97) & Sorted HSC Questions | 98 External (96/100 Raw Why are the sorted hsc questions no longer on sale out of curiosity? Btw will this notes be sufficient or should I familarise myself with contemporary events and more updated statistics?
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    How do teachers detect plagarism?

    I know a friend who literally copy and pasted 3 pages from various sources on the bored of studies' resources page and got away with it, but there was a guy who got caught for copying from a webpage. I assume they just search for some sentences on google?
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    How do you correctly apply ceteris paribus?

    What do assume remains constant and what doesn't? General tips? For example, if the price of Australian commodities were to rise, what would happen to the Australian dollar? It appreciates. You assume that quantity of demand remains constant. If another question were to ask, if a company...
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    explain the concept of escape velocity

    explain the concept of escape velocity in terms of the: – gravitational constant – mass and radius of the planet I know the definition of escape velocity, but how would you explain it in those terms? I read that the equation for escape velocity v=sqr(2GM/r) is not part of the syllabus.
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    Can you do harder 3 unit with only 3 unit knowledge?

    I was issued a bunch of harder 3 unit questions from the hsc papers, but I am finding them to be extremely difficult. Do I need to go over some prior theory?
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    What does radian mode do?

    Asides from allowing me to input values in radian, what else? For example, sin1 gives different answers in radian and degree mode. I was never informed.
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    quick question

    Would -20m/s or 3m/s be the maximum velocity?
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    Blit's guide to choosing related text for Discovery :)

    What type of text would be the most appropriate for the hsc? I was thinking of doing a poem since it conserves time, but I might not get as much quantity as I want.
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    How long should a good creative writing piece be?

    Under hsc exam conditions, how long for 10 marks and 15 marks?
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    inverting a function, quick question

    Will the function exist at the vertical asymptote after I invert it? I thought it did, but I was doing revision yesterday and my teacher circled the coordinates of the vertical asymptotes.
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    I failed first year 12 assessment task...?

    Depends on your peers. If they are extremely competitive, you won't recover. However, there is a possibility they get cocky and fail. At best you could be in the top 30-10% range, but top ranks are out of reach.
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    complex numbers question

    On a similar note, is z(1)-z(2) and z(2)-z(1) the same thing? If not, what's the difference? Also could anyone mark which angles are which on the diagram and reupload the image, such as arg((z(1)-z(2))/(z(1)+z(2))? I can't find any information regarding how to identify the arguments so...
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    complex numbers question

    http://imgur.com/PD7Rqs7 Why is vector QO= (0-q)i? I understand that i rotates it 90 degrees anti-clockwise, but I don't understand the (0-q) part.
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