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I did genre: speculative fiction, and got 45.

How'd everyone go? I got assessment mark of 90, exam mark 94, for a HSC mark of 92. Also, who's planning to go on to engineering in uni, and, if so, which discipline?

Yeh, I didnt expect to go too well for Extension 2, but I got 47 for my assessment mark and 42 for my examination. So overall, 45, E4.

Yeh how good does it feel to finish the thing? Now I can go back to doing...nothing...just like in school... Finished with physics on the 4th, and caught a convention the day after. Wasnt too happy about my first week, but it went alright after that. Just stupid maths and legal and AOS messed...

Erm, I think that this should be in the engineering discussion forum, not the exam thoughts forum. But anyway... For ours, we used the foam trays that meat is packed on in supermarkets. We cut it out by a template, with flaps and control surfaces and stuff. It'll go 10m easy if its done right...

Yeh it was something like list advances in tech since 1905... I talked about: development of precision timekeeping devices such as atomic clocks and development of fast transport like jets and space travel to make the velocity faster. This 'makes the temporal discrepancy more obvious and...

Talked about induction cooktops and electromagnetic braking, and briefly why each is better than other means of doing what they do. I said I used a 'variety of electronic and print media' (BS for used google). I said that i 'cross checked all data sources to ensure accuracy of information' and...

I used Ia/Ib = 100^((mb-ma)/5) on the compare question between Alpha Centauri and Proxima Centauri, and got that the brighter one is something like 10000 times brighter than the other...To me, this seems a bit large...please confirm or deny the accuracy of this number...

I talked about Newton's laws and how by creating a force with the rocket engine, the spacecraft accelerated and got home quicker, increasing the chances of survival for the astronauts. And then, cos I was out of physics ideas, I said that Newton invented calculus to assist him in working out...

When answering this question, my tutor told me that for full marks, I have to write down these points: 1) That geostationary satellites orbit over the equator, and remain stationary relative to the earth's surface. Because Newcastle is not on the equator, any satellite over it cannot be...

I reckon that exam was pretty decent overall (BOS must be trying to make up for a shocking 2 Unit paper ;) Deadset, that pic with the chick and the fire worked well for a dystopic spec story. And the essay qn was alright, too. I thought they might ask for 3 prescribed and 1 related, so it was...

Civil is getting popular because there's a shortage at the moment, I'm told, which means good job security and decent pay.

For Speculative fiction, I'm throwing in some stuff on genre theorists. Propp is being used by almost everyone doing Spec Fic at my school. I'm also throwing in Aristotle and Chris Vogler. Vogler is like a modern Propp in terms of his theory. Aristotlean Story Form -beginning, middle, and...

Was it just me, or was that exam significantly harder than past years? I've been doing practice papers from past years (1986-2004) and I thought the questions in this exam were heaps harder than past years...

I'm going to do Bachelor of Aeronautical or Electrical Engineering at ADFA. But if I get my first preference, I'm going to do Bachelor of Technology (Aeronautical) and be a military pilot

To be frank, I'm screwed. I only got out about 5 pages of unlinked crap for my Family essay, and my answers for the Crime questions made no sense. I mean, what could you possibly write for the males/females question? And how could you squeeze 7 marks out of it!?! The juvenile/adult question...12...

Fucking hell! Who got screwed over by the 7mark question on males and females? And the juveniles and adults? Goddamn, this was the worst fucking exam I've ever had...

Nah, I enjoy extension...probs because i'm studying something I like, rather than something I'm being forced to study I'm doing Genre (Spec Fic), and I love it; I find it heaps easier and far more interesting than Advanced... Yeh I totally agree with you on Extension 2...but man it'd be...

Fuck, people, the three poems thing screwed me over...at least none of them asked for a specific text type... *goes off to BURN everything english related...

Yeh i do TWL/TGA. Whats up?