ziGma
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Further confusion clarification - then what's allignment?yes (except some school don’t include it and then you have to wait for nesa to release them)
Further confusion clarification - then what's allignment?yes (except some school don’t include it and then you have to wait for nesa to release them)
Alignment is a process to make marks (mostly) comparable between years in a subject. Since obviously there are harder and easier years for a subject, rather than just giving you your raw marks NESA instead aligns them based on the band descriptors, so for example last year NESA decided that an ≈66 in maths extension 2 was the minimum mark to fulfil the E4 criteria, and hence if you got a 66 raw in the maths ext 2 exam last year then you’d get a 90 “HSC exam mark” from NESA (and you don’t actually get the raw mark unless you pay).Further confusion clarification - then what's allignment?
essentially alignment is designed to trick you into thinking you did better than you actually did.Further confusion clarification - then what's allignment?
Bruh why do u have to pay to get ur raw marksAlignment is a process to make marks (mostly) comparable between years in a subject. Since obviously there are harder and easier years for a subject, rather than just giving you your raw marks NESA instead aligns them based on the band descriptors, so for example last year NESA decided that an ≈66 in maths extension 2 was the minimum mark to fulfil the E4 criteria, and hence if you got a 66 raw in the maths ext 2 exam last year then you’d get a 90 “HSC exam mark” from NESA (and you don’t actually get the raw mark unless you pay).
nesa needs more money to hire more qualified depressed teachers to write more traumatising examsBruh why do u have to pay to get ur raw marks
you are literally in year 12 and most likely are not going to do the exam again so its kinda useless to get your raw marksunless you are really curious.Bruh why do u have to pay to get ur raw marks
In the lead up to the hsc (week before), roughly 5 give or take 1 or 2I'm thinking ahead for trials...
How many trial papers are you all planning to do in one day?
How many subjects per day?
Complete trial papers every day?
Don’t gate keepHmm gatekeeping it is then
Thanks I'll update as well!
My school never did this accelarated program, but I agree. Some teachers love to NOT help their students by never showing up 'catch up' as in on school work?
bro 5 papers in 1 day???In the lead up to the hsc (week before), roughly 5 give or take 1 or 2
bro i did max 2 papers for 4 of my subjects overallbro 5 papers in 1 day???
they take 4 hours with marking/analysis
the max i ever did was 2 a day
thats probs normalbro i did max 2 papers for 4 of my subjects
math over the year i probs did near 100thats probs normal
i did alot more for math, but it was probs useless after doing 10
ya each 3u paper took me ~1-1.5 hours (sometimes longer) and i only rly did 3u and 2ubro 5 papers in 1 day???
they take 4 hours with marking/analysis
the max i ever did was 2 a day
Could you provide an example of questions that stump you?Heyyy,
Does anyone at all have any tips for SOR II because it seems like I'm the only one struggling with the subject? I think it is because of my teacher because the teacher isn't even at school sometimes and even if the teacher is, all we do is walk into class, read and do summaries, and the questions at the end of the unit. In contrast to the other teacher who has wayy more experience; she goes through the syllabus, discusses the content with us, keeps us engaged, and then does HSC questions with us.
Anyway, I've figured that it's my ATAR and not theirs so I'm willing to put in hard yards but I'm not sure how to go about it. Memorising the content is pretty easy but for me, the questions stuff me up ALL the time, especially the ones with the stats and the ones where we have to answer off a quote. The religions we're studying are Buddhism, Islam and Judaism (which is the hardest for me tbh), based off the Year 11 content we covered. If anyone has any advice whatsoever, help me out pls
All the best!!
i don’t think so. i could be wrong but here’s how it would be set out for youim doing common module = crucible, mod a = king rich and mod b is emma.
If term 1 year 12 assesment task was cruicble and I started learning king richard at the end, which im assuming Ill get a task for king richard. So term 2= King richard. Then term 3= trials. Term 4= Hsc. Basically, i don't get a formal assesment for emma and creative task?
I used the ATAR notes topic test book for chemistry and the questions were pretty good. The answers were detailedly explained. They tell you what you have to do to get the highest possible mark for that question.Hey ppl, has anyone used the books by Atar notes- Did you find it useful for questions and notes?
I'm pretty sure I saw the same thing multiple times as well in some of the physics questions and maybe some maths. The physics solutions would work towards an answer but then finish too early with an answer that was incorrect and they would explain what the final answer should be in the justification for marks.I used the ATAR notes topic test book and the questions were pretty good. The answers were detailedly explained. They tell you what you have to do to get the highest possible mark for that question.
However, I found a lot of mistakes in the answers, mainly calculation or clerical errors(but they affected the final answer) and a few mistakes in the questions too.
yeah, and it's very misleading. Because if someone is not confident in their answers(me), they might not realise that their answers were right and the textbook was wrong. So make sure to not assume that the textbook answer will always be right even when it seems wrong. If you have a teacher you can rely on, check these answers/questions with themI'm pretty sure I saw the same thing multiple times as well in some of the physics questions and maybe some maths. The physics solutions would work towards an answer but then finish too early with an answer that was incorrect and they would explain what the final answer should be in the justification for marks.