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    Help! I have a teacher that sucks! What do I do?

    Yeah, there's no option for tutors here. I am trying really hard. I looked up some sample responses for the exam and how to write them, and I saw that you have to write a "thesis". My teacher has never even mentioned that to us. Where can I get information on writing essays? Also, I feel like...
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    Help! I have a teacher that sucks! What do I do?

    Ever since my school picked up the HSC curriculum, no student has ever achieved band 4 and above in English! And they only offer standard! My teacher is pretty nice but she sucks at teaching English. I feel like it's affecting my marks. I barely managed to scrape an A in term 1. My...
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    Essay writing - what tense?

    Shakespeare uses alliteration.... Alliteration is used by Shakespeare.... Are they not both present tense? It's just that one is active and one is passive. But I've been told that it's better to avoid using the passive and to use the present tense, as that is what the "academics" do.
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    Chemistry Option Topics

    My school does Shipwrecks but the teacher said that if we want to choose another one then we may go ahead.
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    Chemistry Option Topics

    HELP!!! Which option topic should I choose? I'm leaning towards Shipwrecks and Industrial but also like Forensics... Is it true that Industrial "scales" better? What reasons are there that I should choose one over the others?
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    Just asking for some guidance?

    Does school rank matter? UAC claims that it doesn't...
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    Is it even possible?

    BTW I saw someone on this site with 99.80 who did English Standard so I guess IT IS POSSIBLE... ???
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    Announcement from BOSTES/NESA - 2019 Syllabus Changes for Calculus courses

    Did they remove conics from 4U Maths????????!
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    2 unit trig question:

    tan 30 = x/18 .:x = tan 30 * 18 = 10.4 (1 d.p.) But that's only from the person's head. You still have to add two metres (the person's height) .:h = 12.4 (am I right?)
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    Which Physics Textbooks are good??

    For me in2 PHYSICS is my favourite because I started reading it in Year 10 and it made me love and enjoy physics. The Jacaranda one is not bad and Physics in Focus follows the syllabus precisely. So any of them are good.
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    99 atar without math?

    But the Maths Extensions are the highest scaling subjects...
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    99 atar without math?

    There's a girl called Natalie Buckett who got 99.95 with just English Advanced and Extensions and some languages... without maths.
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    Is it even possible?

    Thanks for the links and all your replies. By the looks of it, though, it looks like I won't be moving schools anytime soon (I'm studying offshore and there's only one school in the country offering the NSW curriculum), so I guess I have a lot of reading and studying to do.
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    2018ers Preliminary Chit Chat Thread

    How far into the preliminary course are we supposed to be right now? The exams are supposed to be next term.
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    Is it even possible?

    So is there any mark that you can achieve in English Standard to practically guarantee an ATAR of 99.90+?
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    Is it even possible?

    Okay. But suppose you're not that good at English Standard (or you're stuck with a terrible teacher) and you just manage to scrape a HSC mark of 80. And in the rest of your courses you get high band 6s. What are the chances of getting 99.90?
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    2018ers Preliminary Chit Chat Thread

    Apparently we'll be the last batch to graduate under the "NSW" syllabus.
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    Is it even possible?

    I'm talking about breaking the 99.35 mark set by previous English Standard students (see UAC scaling reports). Correct me if I'm wrong but I've never seen an ATAR higher than this when it comes to English Standard. People say that the ATAR has been "capped" at this number, but on the other hand...
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    What are my chances in getting a 90+ atar?

    Don't laugh, but I have my sights set on an ATAR 99.90+... I wanted to do English Advanced and 4-Unit Maths, but my school doesn't offer those, so I'm stuck with English Standard. I've read a lot of sites and they claim that you can get 99.95 with any combination of subjects, but many...
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