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    PD Notes with Improving Performance and Sports Medicine

    Hello current and future PD hscers i noticed there weren't that many notes/resources hanging around when i did my hsc and i thought i might be able to ease the load by handing out my notes. they cover the two cores and the options improving performance and sports medicine. i hope you find them...
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    2012 HSC Physics Notes + Quanta to Quarks

    Hello year 12 physics students, i did the hsc last year and used these notes to get the mark that i got. they are by no means the best notes out there but they are quite good and cover all the dot points. feel free to use them to assist you in any way they can. :) The option i did was quanta to...
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    Complete notes from 2012 HSC Biology

    I'm feeling particularly altruistic at the moment and as a result am uploading all my notes for physics, biology and PD. I used these notes for the HSC and they helped get me some solid marks. Feel free to use them. I hope that if you do that you find them as useful as I did. my option was...
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    Feedback on some English essays? :)

    I don't have a teacher to look over the past paper questions which I have been doing so recently I've relied on my friends feedback. If there's anyone who feels qualified and has the time to have a look at some of my essays that would be great :) Just to get an idea of what sort of marks I would...
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    Confused about this question

    doing the 2008 2U HSC paper i have absolutely no idea what you're supposed to do with question 9 c) i. and ii. i have the worked answers in my book but i don't understand why you work it out that way. if you could give a clear explanation that would be much appreciated :)
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    How to make a pre-prepared essay?

    A huge amount of people seem to have pre-prepared essays for english which seems to work for them. Up until this point I've simply had sections based around themes e.g. Hamlet ive got about a page of notes each on corruption, appearance vs reality and mortality. I'm guessing if you write a...
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    Difficulty of final questions

    I've been doing past HSC papers for maths and questions 9 and 10 I find incredibly difficult. 1-8 i will often get 100% but for the life of me i can't figure out how to do a large proportion of the final questions without checking the answers and seeing what you're supposed to do. Is this a...
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    Daily Study Plan?

    With a bit over a month to go I've decided to actually schedule a daily study timetable for myself. I do 5 subjects (obviously from my signature) and I'm not sure how to spread the work out over a 7 day week. Couple of questions which I'd appreciate some advice on: Should i dedicate Monday -...
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    Unlocking 2012 DET Laptops?

    I've heard of people at other schools getting their laptops unblocked already. for anyone who has had this done could you shed some light on it?
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    English Paper 1 or 2?

    Just did english paper 1 today which i was completely freaking out about. Paper 2 is tomorrow and i feel more confident. For some reason 3 essays seems simpler than responding to unseen texts and doing a creative writing piece. Which paper do you prefer and why? :)
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    English Paper 1 or 2?

    Do you prefer English Paper 1 or English Paper 2?
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    Analysing a TV show as an additional material

    I'm using an episode of insight about banning the burqa for one of my additional materials. there are two distinct perspectives (for & against the ban) which i can explain and back up with quotes, however what techniques should i be looking for to support my explanations? The people aren't...
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    Are my additional materials ok?

    My prescribed text is wag the dog my first additional material that i chose is President Bush's speech at Fort Bragg in 2005 in relation to the war in Iraq the second one I've chosen is Fahrenheit 9/11. i really like this as the conflicting perspectives are easy to analyse, however should i...
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    How to write a conflicting perspectives essay and link your materials?

    My core text is wag the dog, i've chosen George Bush's speech at Fort Bragg as one additional material and am looking for another one. I understand that each text has conflicting perspectives within it, my problem is that I have no idea what an essay should look like. If anyone has a basic...
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    How do you study for physics?

    Hi guys just wondering how everyone else studies for physics. Personally i have my notes written for example on space, i read over my notes then do a bunch of past hsc questions on the topic. i don't really want to tackle an entire past paper at once and would rather focus on a single topic at a...
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    Wag The Dog Related Texts?

    This module is very confusing to me, i don't really understand how to link my core text to a related text. if anyone had some examples of a related text for Wag the Dog and how they would be linked that would be great :/ thanks
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    Assessment Task 3

    Today my school sat the 3rd assessment task for 2U. some students only received 8 questions instead of 10 which wasn't noted until after we had finished. Now we're probably going to have to re-sit the exams -_-, which would be fine except i think i did pretty well How have your exams been? And...
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    Hamlet Listening Task Help?

    Next week is an assessment week for my school and in English its the Module B time. we got the question in advance (sort of?) and we'll be listening to an extract from one of the scenes. the question is: Explain your understanding of this extract and how it contributes to the textual integrity...
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    Excel Success One books

    holidays are coming up and i've heard people mentioning the success one books. my mum's happy to buy them for me but i'd like to get some other input before she does. i do english, maths advanced, physics, biology and pd. should i get them for all or are some subjects more useful than others?
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