Class of 2025 (2025 HSC CHAT) (49 Viewers)

[Hipeople]

Does anyone have a document with gravimetric analysis questions for Module 1 Chemistry? I have a practical task with a written section. Does anyone have any tips on how to get full marks on a prac?

I have the same prac on Tuesday. How are you preparing for it? I'm just revising stuff from the textbook.

 

[sakinluvo]

Does anyone have a document with gravimetric analysis questions for Module 1 Chemistry? I have a practical task with a written section. Does anyone have any tips on how to get full marks on a prac?

I have a prac task too, ive been using the textbook questions for gravimetrics

 

[banigul@30]

what textbooks/workbooks have you guys been using for chem?

 

[melanie_o]

I have the same prac on Tuesday. How are you preparing for it? I'm just revising stuff from the textbook.

I'm using the Chemistry in Focus skills booklet + atomi.

 

[melanie_o]

I have the same prac on Tuesday. How are you preparing for it? I'm just revising stuff from the textbook.

Suffering together :'(.

 

[banigul@30]

Suffering together :'(.

i have a depth study

 

[melanie_o]

i have a depth study

Manifesting for you! Do you have an exam component btw?

 

[banigul@30]

Manifesting for you! Do you have an exam component btw?

d'you mean like an in-class written task?

 

[melanie_o]

d'you mean like an in-class written task?

Yeah.

 

[banigul@30]

Yeah.

then no not for this one

 

[Hipeople]

then no not for this one

That sounds cool. My school is so obsessed with exams and the science faculty don't even share full past papers. I have a depth study exam for bio and physics, and I'm so clueless on what to study.

 

[sakinluvo]

Should I drop down to Standard English? I wanna do Architecture later on but I genuinely despise Advanced English at the moment but everyone Is telling me to keep to advanced. I'm doing my assessment at the moment and I genuinely feel like the maximum mark I would get is a C.

sorry for the rant

 

[melanie_o]

Should I drop down to Standard English? I wanna do Architecture later on but I genuinely despise Advanced English at the moment but everyone Is telling me to keep to advanced. I'm doing my assessment at the moment and I genuinely feel like the maximum mark I would get is a C.

sorry for the rant

English Advanced and Standard have the same exam requirements (Paper 1 is almost identical and Paper 2 has the same structure but different texts).
If you drop down to Standard, it will be easier but only by a trivial amount. Less than 1% of the state who take Standard manage to get into the top band 6 compared to English Advanced (which normally reaches the double digits) which may work against you considering the competition for a spot at architecture school. Also, know that your final exam mark is not your raw mark, it is adjusted in terms of performance descriptors (i.e -> they mark leniently and categorise responses into different levels of sophistication/knowledge).

This is all a bit complicated but what I am trying to say is that if you are a C-average student in English Advanced, you will probably get C's in Standard, since the requirements are more or less the same (minus the higher-order concepts of Shakespeare or Jane Austin e.c.t). You should speak to your teacher and head of department before you move down. I will say that there have been miracles (per se) in English Advanced - last year a student who got a raw mark of 67/100 (Band 3) got adjusted to an 80/100 (Band 5) since the markers understand that the underlying concepts are harder to grasp they tend to be extremely lenient during marking(check out https://rawmarks.info/english/english-advanced/).

If you are generally struggling in English Advanced, Standard is a good choice, but just note that if you trust the process and stick with Advanced (assuming you try and put in effort) You may see your C's get inflated to a high B mark by the end of year 12.
Do take my advice with a grain of salt though.
Also, SparkNotes is a lifesaver, especially for Shakespearean texts (summarises the key quotes/thems + puts the text into a more modern friendly tone).

Your teachers are more than likely willing to give you extra support since they like having students.
Anyway, you do you - it's your life after all .
Hope this helps.

 

[its_ace21]

This is all a bit complicated but what I am trying to say is that if you are a C-average student in English Advanced, you will probably get C's in Standard

yr11 i did adv i was literally failing and yr12 i was put to std and i was getting way higher so not rlly

Should I drop down to Standard English? I wanna do Architecture later on but I genuinely despise Advanced English at the moment but everyone Is telling me to keep to advanced. I'm doing my assessment at the moment and I genuinely feel like the maximum mark I would get is a C.

sorry for the rant

ik ppl doing architecture now who have done std eng so its fine if u drop but personally i would stay in adv

 

[anonymoushehe]

does anyone here do physics and have done like an in class first hand investigation yet for their assessment??

 

[sakinluvo]

English Advanced and Standard have the same exam requirements (Paper 1 is almost identical and Paper 2 has the same structure but different texts).
If you drop down to Standard, it will be easier but only by a trivial amount. Less than 1% of the state who take Standard manage to get into the top band 6 compared to English Advanced (which normally reaches the double digits) which may work against you considering the competition for a spot at architecture school. Also, know that your final exam mark is not your raw mark, it is adjusted in terms of performance descriptors (i.e -> they mark leniently and categorise responses into different levels of sophistication/knowledge).

This is all a bit complicated but what I am trying to say is that if you are a C-average student in English Advanced, you will probably get C's in Standard, since the requirements are more or less the same (minus the higher-order concepts of Shakespeare or Jane Austin e.c.t). You should speak to your teacher and head of department before you move down. I will say that there have been miracles (per se) in English Advanced - last year a student who got a raw mark of 67/100 (Band 3) got adjusted to an 80/100 (Band 5) since the markers understand that the underlying concepts are harder to grasp they tend to be extremely lenient during marking(check out https://rawmarks.info/english/english-advanced/).

If you are generally struggling in English Advanced, Standard is a good choice, but just note that if you trust the process and stick with Advanced (assuming you try and put in effort) You may see your C's get inflated to a high B mark by the end of year 12.
Do take my advice with a grain of salt though.
Also, SparkNotes is a lifesaver, especially for Shakespearean texts (summarises the key quotes/thems + puts the text into a more modern friendly tone).

Your teachers are more than likely willing to give you extra support since they like having students.
Anyway, you do you - it's your life after all .
Hope this helps.

Thank u sm <33

 

[sakinluvo]

yr11 i did adv i was literally failing and yr12 i was put to std and i was getting way higher so not rlly



ik ppl doing architecture now who have done std eng so its fine if u drop but personally i would stay in adv

i just gotta thug it out then 🥲

 

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[aqwerty13402]

I HATE THE HSC. Oh my god I actually can't do this anymore [/TEX][/TEX][/TEX][/TEX][/TEX][/TEX][/TEX][/TEX][/TEX][/TEX][/TEX][/TEX]

 

[gmenoza]

thats for the 2024 chat