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    QMB exam

    How are we supposed to study for it? There are no past mid semester papers and the textbook questions seem too easy...
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    Probability question

    Hey, i have a probability question that i cant do if anyone can help me out with it, it'd be great! An insurance company notices that of 2100 claims made for burglary only 10 % of premises had alarms and 16 % had keyed window locks. The number of claims where premises had both an alarm and...
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    Accounting + Actuarial

    Hey! I am doing a major in accounting in UNSW. I was wondering if it's possible to do another major in actuarial studies too. I picked quantitative methods but the UNSW website said something about having to pick another course if you want to major in actuarial... I picked Acct. 1A...
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    Vist and MSN don't work together!

    Hey! I just got a brand new lappy with vista pre-installed! Only one problem, MSN doesn't exactly work. It's so weird what's happening. I'll explain. The first time I ran messenger live, it worked fine. I signed in, everything worked. Then I signed out and signed in again, and as soon...
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    Cadetships - what to wear?!

    Hey! Does anyone know what we have to dress like for a cadetship? I got accepted into an accounting cadetship at the Audit Office of NSW but i'm not sure what I have to wear. They didnt mention it. My first day is on monday... Should I just wear a suit? What do you guys in a cadetship...
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    Enrolling part-time accounting

    Hey! I was accepted into a cadetship and have to enroll into UNSW part-time. Anyone knows which courses I have to enroll in? Thanks!
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    Open days!

    Hey! Does anyone know the exact date of all the uni open days? I know USYD has one tomorrow and I was told UWS has one today, but I can't find anything about it on their site. Thanks!
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    Law at UWS vs Accounting at UTS

    Hey! I've always wanted to do law, but as i got a uai of 91, i can't do it anywhere but in UWS. well, i knew i'd get that UAI, and didn't really try to get that 99.something. Well, instead i want to do accounting now, which seems great cause i can get into UTS, which is a great uni. Now...
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    Texas chainsaw massacre

    we watched that yesterday and damn wtf! most of us werent even 18 and they let us in to see it! LOL the most freaking stupid movie ever. It's all gore, no plot, nothing. It's so freaking lame and the only good thing about it was that we had the cinema to ourselves (except for 2 guys behind...
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    Forumulas!

    Hey! for tomorrow, does anyone have a list of the formulas we need to know? especially those 2u ones..!! arghhH! thanks :)
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    Text types - Creative writing

    Hey! Well, I have this idea. What if the question asks you to write a letter or something, can we in that case just start of normally.. (Hey, how are you, bla bla) and then say something like, And here's an interesting story that happened to me a few weeks ago. and just insert your...
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    HSC writing booklet

    Hey, does anyone know where we can find like a sample page from one? LIke just a page so that we can print off several and practise writing our drafts on. The lines have annoyingly large gaps and I need to get used to them.. seeing my handwriting looks really shit when it's big. argh...
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    Audit Office - cadetship

    Hey, i was searching through these forums and the Audit Office was only mentioned once or twice. Does anyone here know anything about this firm? Worked there? Is it a good place? I know it makes around 25million per year.. would that classify it as a big firm or a 'mid-tier' one? I've...
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    Integration by parts help

    Hey, for integration by parts I always get up to the same step but can't keep going. It's where you gotta sub the "I" thing back into the equation. for example, here's a question from the 2005 CSSA paper that I can't do. Q2) e)i) If In = integral between 1 and 0 of x(1-x)^n show...
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    simple differentiation i can't get

    hey.. argg! something's up with me! Differentiate: ln(tanx) I know the answer is sec^2x/tanx but don't know how they got it... can someone please explain how for me? thanks :)
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    Sketch inverse function

    Hey could anyone please help me out in sketching: y = 2sin^-1(x/pie) Thanks!
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    SHM question

    A particle is performing Simple Harmonic motion about a fixed point O in a straight line. At time t seconds it has displacement x meters from O given by x = cos2t - sin2t i) Express x in the form R(cos2t+a) for some R>0 and 0<a<pie/2 ii) Find the amplitude and the period of the motion...
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    The conical pendulum

    hey this is questions 4 from the cambridge book, I don't get how you get the radius of the string (if it's needed anyway) and then do the problem.. The base of a hollow cone of semi-vertical angle 30degrees is fixed to a horizontal table. Two particles each of mass m are connected by a light...
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    Induction question

    Hey just an induction question, I actually proved it but just to make sure that my method is right.. the cambridge doesn't have solutions to them and we still haven't learnt this topic in class... Show that 7^n + 11^n is divisible by 9 for odd n>=1 for n = 1 7 + 11 = 18, which is...
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    Induction

    Hey, I need to study this topic by myself, but can't seem to find any chapters in the cambridge 3u book that cover it.. The 4u induction chapter seems too difficult as I don't even know the basics yet! Does anyone know where exactly in the cambridge book that it teaches induction and gives...
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