Idiot's Guides....... (1 Viewer)

[MissMacbeth]

they aren't made specifically for the hsc - the main purpose of getting them is to gain more knowledge about your history subject and be able to pad out your final hsc exam essay and gain more points than the other school students who simply read the excell books.
Markers look for extra stuff, not how much you can recite from the excell books - besides those books are aimed at ppl who have a lot of difficulty with the course (band 4 kind of material - speaking from an experience with a friend in my class who memorised the excell books.....)

 

[enter~space~cap]

i wasted like 26 bucks buying the excel book, such a crappy book!

 

[Sarah168]

hahaha sucked in! u should have had a quick flip through and realised that it was crap!!

 

[MissMacbeth]

enter-space-cap,
Don't feel too bad:
A - the excell books were good for when our teacher 1 1/2 months before the exam (!!!!) sprung the Indochinese war on us - his quote:"I fogot we had to learn this core too! Quick! Here are some read outs from the internet!" (Grrrrr!) It's good for getting a general overview of what you have to know - that book did help me in that sense, but it didn't get me a nice mark.
B - there will always be some new to the game yr 12 next year dying for a copy that you can sell it to.

 

[life4_rent]

lol.. always zoom in on unsuspecting year11's.. lil suckers.. i noe.. i was one.. *grumble grumble*

i'll chek into the idiot guides.. thanx much ms.macbeth

-maggie xox

 

[ChoppedLiver]

Which online guide would you recommend?

 

[blam_babe]

I'm so getting this idiot's guide book now.

I hate excel books. They're shit. For all subjects. Esp maths.

The Macquarie Revision Guides are also really good and there's one for modern but I dunno how specific it would be. They're good for chem.

For online stuff I love sparknotes, spartacus, johndclare, trenches on the web (for WWI - duh) and the history channel site is also ok I think.

 

[Aussiechick]

Tenille - Wollongong has the Excel History books, I have both the text book and the revise in a month. I bought them from Collins in Figtree. If they don't have any anymore, you can order them in, I ordered in the Frontline one

 

[MouNtY]

is there "idiot's guides" for other subjects as well?

 

[Sarah168]

depends. they are not hsc specifically related. they just happen to have topics that match up to certain subjects.

 

[Tenille]

Originally posted by Aussiechick
Tenille - Wollongong has the Excel History books, I have both the text book and the revise in a month. I bought them from Collins in Figtree. If they don't have any anymore, you can order them in, I ordered in the Frontline one

yeah i know im talking about the idiot guides