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    90 Atar at a low ranked school?

    I went to a 600s school and got an atar of 91.25, anything is possible
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    Share your 2012 HSC results here

    Eng Adv: 86 Bio: 86 Chem: 84 Geography: 85 PDHPE: 89 Atar estimate: DUX COLLEGE- 90.5 Matrix 90.15 Einstein: 90.3 :D:D
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    Chemical Engineering!

    Im looking at doing chemical engineering/business double degree. Here is the Newcastle course structure, and yes it does look like mainly maths, chemistry and physics. I also only did advanced but to compensate have started working on the maths course in my gap year...
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    Band 6 cut off-Geography

    No subject ever (according the the raw marks database 2.0) has ever had a raw mark above mid eighties for a B6, somewhat doubt this year it would be 92
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    on average paper 1

    5 marker= about 1.5-2 A4 pages
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    Question to those doing Emily Dickinson...

    I hope they dont specify, Ive got three done in detail. They have never specified a poem, mind you if speeches last year is anything to go by. What poems are you doing ?
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    How long should a band 6 generally be?

    paper 1 is 3 x 15 marks and paper 2 is 3 x 20 marks for the weightings in both papers
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    Mark my Biology Please!

    With those I would say probably q26 would be a 6-7, the content is all good. Just need to be more specific related to the reliability, validity, postives negatives sorta thing. They are looking for that specifically. For 27 I would say 7-8, more towards the 8 because the content is all addressed...
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    Mark my Biology Please!

    That question too is done well but also use the headings method. Assess means positives/negatives/judgement based around validity, accuracy and reliability. So set it out in that way. Just begin with Pros: Koch' postulates were used .... Negs: Was qualatative analysis of bacteria with no values...
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    Mark my Biology Please!

    By the way what is the question for Q26, it just has writing ?
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    Mark my Biology Please!

    q27 is done well but to make marking easier set it out under headings eg: Meiosis....... Effect of environment on phenotype..... (Insert example). The content is good, make it logical and cohesive will make the markers job easier and get to the 8 marks. Biology does not need to be set out like...
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    What HSC marks are you aiming for?

    English Advanced 90 Biology 92 Chemistry 90 Geography 90 PDHPE 95 Atar hopefully around 94
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    Essay related and prescribed text

    You should talk about your prescribed text first just by convention our teacher said. You dont lose marks but it gives a lesser impression when they look at your work. And yes you must give equal weighting to both
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    Belonging

    As far as I know they do not like students using set texts for ORT's as it shows that you cannot choose an adequate text by yourself, but im not totally sure, thats just what our teacher said
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    Chemistry marathon

    Explain how a buffer in a natural system maintains a relatively constant pH (Include relevant chemical equations in your answer) ---3
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    Chemistry marathon

    LDPE has larger degree of cross linking and a lower degree of branching making it transparent, flexible, low density USES: Transparent food wrapping, sandwhich bags HDPE: Lower degree of cross linking and higher degree of branching making it non transparent, inflexible, hard, higher density...
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    Geography trial papers

    Anyone have past HSC geography trial papers or links to sites I can get some from?
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    Are Band 6s possible based on my raw marks ?

    Yay, hopefully those will improve at the HSC too, cheers :)
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