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I'll be the first person to agree the hsc is a stressful experience, but that doesn't mean they should make every exam easy as hell - that wouldn't count for anything! i thought chem was hard (i know i didn't 'blitz' it) but it was a fair test, you can't be pissed off at the board because they...

i'm not the strongest chemistry student but i put a lot of work in writing my dot points and stuff. i think it paid off. some mathematical stuff i couldn't do, like the second ph question (don't laugh at me!!) and figuring out concentration of Ca2+ in mgL-1 - i just left it at mol L-1. most of...

alkanol + alkanoic acid ---conc. H2SO4---> ester + water e.g. butanol + propanoic acid ---conc. H2SO4---> butyl propanoate + water *alkanoic acids contain the carboxyl group, but the former is the correct terminology (for the purposes of the hsc anyway) often the easiest way to gain marks...

well i'm going with my b/f so it will be a 'f*** fest' but not in the way you mean! if i was single, maybe i would hook up with a guy or two - but not everyone who asked! maybe there are some girls who do, guess alcohol is a factor. hope that answered your question ;)

dammit, in our funky revised syllabus teacher had written 'koch's postulates can be ommitted', i still studied them - knew them - but i didn't think they would be tested..dammit now it all makes sense! luckily there was a mitochondrial dna question in our trial. did you just have to say its...

i donno but lets continue it on here. multiple choice was fairly simple, apart from the aldosterone question i thought. core was...strange, like they had a lot of 'source-based' questions to which you had to adapt your knowledge. i didn't like the eight mark biology skills question - just...

I do crime fiction and thought the question was fairly easy, although as people have said it was hard to adapt the lame prescribed texts into it (i did 'the big sleep' and 'the real inspector hound' but in hindsight 'anil's ghost' would have been more appropiate). i argued agaisnt for most of my...

don't worry - thought you were a current hsc student :D

gah how could you be bothered doing the whole paper for the second time? i never want to see maths again - except your solutions to see how i went! oh, and chemistry mole/equation work...

Yeah I have to say I agree, if you prepared well you would have needed the three hours. And, although the Pompeii questions may have been 'easy', I think they expect a lot of detail and latin terms in your answers to get a band 6 - and it hasn't been examined before so you couldn't compare how...

anyone want to make any prediction questions for the core? i'm screwed if they ask something on political life in pompeii, in fact, ididn't learn half of the syllabus in class, oh, a year ago. and for the ten marker there's only so much you can write for, say, conservation so they better write a...

AND the creative story stimulus was crap! gee they are reaaalllyy going to have fun reading sixty two thousand stories of an old man..i mean where else can you REALLY go with that ! lol i agree with that

i argued with it, but i could equally have gone the other way. i think they were just looking for a strong personal voice grounded with good evidence...can't say i gave that but i tried. congratulations everyone. p.s do past exemplar responses intimidate anyone? some are like 15 pages long and...

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when you discuss all your text at once, what unifying concept(s) do you attribute to your paragraphs (e.g iniation of journey, process of journey)? i tried doing an integrated essay like that and it was a right mess. i found i linked more effectivly, through both techniques and concepts, when...

Thanks guys, Call me a cretin but I don't understand what purpose SAM serves if not to convert 'raw' marks to the scaled marks - how are we supposed to figure the latter out for ourselves? I know they have something to do with your assessment rank and other factors... Is SAM only accurate once...

I entered more or less my Trial marks in SAM (predicting my eng ext 2 mark) and got 94 - this is waay higher than i was expecting? how realistic is it, really? thanks heaps