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Greetings fellow Bosers. I have a mate who is unsure on what to do atm. He is 23 and failed to enter medicine during year 12 through the undergraduate pathway (ATAR+ UMAT+ Interview) because of his low UMAT score. So he went to uni and did a med science degree at ANU in order to try out for the...

Hi everyone, a friend of mine who is currently doing the HSC is looking for people's opinions on the importance of tutoring. I have never had tutoring personally so I told him I will ask around. What does everybody think? Does it help to a sufficient degree? I mean let's face it, HSC students...

Hey, did anyone else's school ring their bells during their HSC exams? Mine did, like non-stop. It's really quite annoying cause its hard to think. The weird thing is that my school never used to ring the bell in past years, and any kids caught making noises near the exam room got instant...

Hey, has any of past umat students used this umat ease or gone to their tuition? http://umat-ease.weebly.com/ If so, what do you reckon about it, did it help you get a high umat mark? is it worth it? There are so many umat companies claiming that their material is the best for preparation, and...

Hey guys, anybody out there who repeated the hsc? Could you please share your story. e.g how much did your atar increase by? How did you cope with all your friends gone? When did you go back to school? right after your hsc exams or after the Christmas holidays. Cheers! before anyone ask, I am...

Hey everyone I am aiming for an atar of 95. I was just wondering if this is possible with my marks. The following are my raw marks for the trials and overall rank: English Advanced: 90% 1st Maths 2u: 87% 1st Mathematics Extension 1: 67% 2nd Chemistry: 81% 1st Physics: 80% 1st Biology...

Hey everyone, I was just wondering how to repeat year 12. I am not definitely going to do it and I know everybody will say it's a bad idea, but how does it actually work? Like, because you don't get your ATAR until December, would you start in January, hence missing out an entire term. Also, how...

Hey guys, so if i rank first in my cohort in say physics, and i rank first in my hsc external, does that mean my internal will become the same as the external. For example, I rank first in the external with a mark of 90, does that mean my internal will be 90, therefore i would get an overall HSC...

Hey folks, just wondering if any of you have come across teachers being biased towards their students. A mate of mine does drama has been complaining to me lately about how her drama teacher is being biased, because she put another girl as equal first with her despite receiving lower assessment...

Hey guys, I am currently doing my HSC and aiming for a 97 atar. My subjects are 3U Maths Advanced English Chemistry Biology Physics I am currently ranked first for all of them except extension 1 maths (behind by 0.2% apparently due to some weird assessment moderation program :vcross...

How to identify if sodium carbonate and sodium phosphate is present in a solution? Say if i had several compounds including lead nitrate, copper nitrate, barium nitrate, sodium carbonate, and sodium phosphate in different solutions. We are asked to identify which two solutions contain the sodium...

Hey guys just a really quick question, how would you convert the concentration of an element in ppm (mg/L) to mole/L (molarity)? Say if i had a concentration of 0.8 ppm. How would you convert this? Thanks! :)

Hey all. I am a school captain and SRC member at a country school with about 600 kids all up, and I really want to do medicine. Just wondering if universities even care about school captaincy? Please note I didn't become a school captain for the sake of university entry. But I would like to know...

Hi all, just wondering if anybody here got into medicine or knows somebody who got in through a rural entry scheme or something like that. Maybe Monash or UNSW. University of Adelaide or Newcastle or Bond is fine as well. What sort of umat and atar marks did you/they get to secure you an...

Hey guys, just wondering what 3u maths textbook your school prescribes. I go to an average school ranked usually between 200-350, so we get the maths in focus book, which is quite basic on most topics. Still our 2u class dropped from 25 in year 11 to 10 in year 12... go figure!

I read that board of studies only really cares about your rank within the cohort and the difference between you and the next person. is that true? Say if I ranked first in my cohort for both the internal assessments and hsc exam for chemistry with 70% internal mark and 90 hsc exam mark, does...

There is a bit of a confliction between the jacaranda and physics in focus textbooks on orbital decay. Jacaranda talks about orbital velocity increasing at lower altitudes, because Ep is transformed into Ek, thus by Ek=1/2mv2, higher Ek results in greater orbital velocity. However, physics in...

So in the Jacaranda physics hsc book, there is this section on calculating orbital energy and a few equations for elliptical orbit. However, I can't find any of this stuff in the physics syllabus, so should I not worry about it? Have any of you past physics students seen any hsc questions on...

So there are 2 formulas for calculating the orbital velocity of a satellite, v= √(GM/r) and v= 2πr/T. If r was increased in the first formula, then velocity would decrease, while in the second formula, if r was increased, then velocity would increase as well. Can someone help me explain why this...

I have been hearing little rumours here and there that some people in the top high schools do between 6-9 hours of study every school day and more than 12 hours per weekend day. Is that true? Cause that's insane! I go to an average school in the country and try to do 5-6 hours per night and...