Seriously dude? Let's get a few things straight here. You asked me for my notes at the end of 2008. I had one hand written 300 page set of chem notes which I had set about making for the whole year. I had put hours of work into those and had no electronic copy. I was adamant they were not for sale and you could have offered any amount of money and I would have rejected it. The reason for this was my brother was still to do the HSC. I'm sorry if you think choosing a family member over a random bloke who you meet on the internet is not consistent with a 'desire to help people'. The reason I gave you for the English essays was my polite way of saying "don't go down the path of plagiarism" as some close family friends were using similar material in the year you did the HSC. I don't even tutor English mate, I have nothing to gain from them. I simply passed those essays onto my brother too.
You've got some nerve to think that repeating the HSC has in some way given you a right to comment on the motivations and desires of other people mate. Go as far as you want in life but there is no need for that. I can't bring myself to continue to highlight the issues in what you have said are for reasons you probably won't understand. There was no need for me to talk to you when you approached me as an anonymous username on MSN, but I still did mate. Just with the desire of helping out if I could. I'm starting to wish I just deleted your name instead?
If you think repeating the HSC is in some way 'sticking it to the man', you're in for a shock in the world. But still I will say all the best for the future.
Lol, here we go, trying to justify his previous actions to come off as being innocent, instead of growing a pair and atleast admitting to 1-2 mistakes, its becomes 'random bloke', 'plagiarism' (pretty sure you never had 6+ previous essays from your ex-peers), 'didnt even tutor english, nothing to gain' (lol pretty sure your very a big-hearted person, that loves to help people out of free-will).
Also I dont "comment on motivations and desires of others, mate", i just like skipping all the philosphical bullshit and gets to your real intentions. Keep lieing to yourself, and keep selling those magical notes of yours, since you got heart and all.
PS: you were going to sell me the notes, you just had to ask your mother first remeber? by that time i had deleted you from msn because i had always knew you were tight-ass, i just made sure i had to suck up to you to get what ever i wanted, didnt really work to my favour now that i think about it.
Well I did go to some of these tutors myself but they didn't show off or anything, in fact quite the opposite. They were very encouraging and even considered me equal and able to achieve what they achieved.
I can't speak for all of the tutors that originated from my school but for the most part they do do a good job and pass on what was ground into us. Some benefit and some don't as you have said but that's when you need to be proactive and say thanks but no thanks. I admit, many people have said this to me in the past and continue to do so. Others, like yesterday said keep giving me the life lessons because I'd rather prefer the motivation. (In fact, I actually mentioned this thread but he entirely disagreed about motivational speeches being useless)
For maths, is it leeching or is it being resourceful? I think the latter. These are resources that others might not even be aware of because they are so old. Can't blame a tutor for that. If you don't like his style, speak up or leave.
I entirely agree with you that 100 UAI kids don't necessarily have the skills to teach and thats sometimes what I play on when promoting myself because I do believe I can convey concepts in a simple, relatable way. People keep coming back and thank me for my efforts.
I don't dispute your notes are not comprehensive. I've downloaded them myself. Their great. You've done BoS and the student community a great favour. Now take the complement and show some respect to others that have made you who you are.
Lol, just having a general look on this post, you actually need to learn a few valid pointers before jumping into the world of debating, notice how you stray 360 degrees off topic, blabber about a million different things and still cant provide a complete and coherent answer?
Only thing i will reply to is '
Now take the complement and show some respect to others that have made you who you are.', they didnt make me to who i am, they just showed me that they were fulled with enough bullshit, for me to see and follow the right path. You know the sell yourself 'im the state ranking tutor and i can garuntee you to suceed in hsc' yadad yada, people love to hear that, your signature proves it nicely.
Goodluck.
I read ALL of it, i wouldn't had written that it was a good post if i didn't read the WHOLE thing. Even your following posts. I just really believe (in my honest opinion and i think this is a good and inspirational post) that it was incredibly irresponsible and you should not in any way provide people some kind of enthusiasm to copy such a thing. To gain an ATAR of 90 and not feel good enough while at one point seems admirable considering the goal, to achieve a number on a pointless stage designed to discriminate people and not teach you any real skills, to not feel good enough with a 90 is just highly un-healthy. You should re-evaluate the events and aim not to do such a thing again. I read this out irl "Osmaelias, who ever you are, you are GOOD ENOUGH: a really smart and motivated individual, you got an ATAR/UAI of 90 in your real attempt, despite not being in Australia before Year 11, you managed to place in the top 10% (you managed beating 90% of candidates) of Students in New South Wales (the largest state-population in Australia with over fifty thousand candidates). You must be a very impressive and exceptional human being. I am sure this means you will do great in what ever your aspirations are in life." i think that's all you really needed to hear before you waisted that year also keep in mind that you could have had the same result in another year and gotten 100UAI because of the way these things are calculated. 96 ATAR does not necessarily mean you did better than when you attempted it the first time, had the candidates been different your 96 ATAR attempt could had been 50 or 80 ATAR.
I was also getting at the lack of textual integrity of your argument against tutors and tutoring, "because they haven't helped", since you yourself has obviously benefited with such a financial advantage. Your argument that kids can do really well by themselves is really inspirational and a hard thing to teach anyone. But still not everyone would need to go through such un-healthy lengths to achieve a great result nor someone who really cannot perform should debauch their lifestyle if they really cannot. Because by process of induction comparing Terrence Tao and Ramanujan with their their hardworking and privileged counterparts whom they can naturally out perform at younger ages or little resources, proves that something else is being played at hand. Pascal and Fermat did not need a high ATAR to create the foundation mathematics that formed modern Economics its self. This is a finality that the HSC "stage" as i like to think of it sought to cater for and this is why i think to value the ATAR or UAI is such a pointless competition, it is just a number that justifies discriminating between students enrolling in to University because it would be more unfair if it were on a first-come first-served basis, financial basis or the politically incorrect "IQ-testing", and interviewing every single candidate would really achieve the same thing but is physically impossible. I don't think the Board of Studies educates students enough on how these things are actually calculated, because if you really understood it, it would illuminate that the results are highly "Abstract" and are hence pointless. Please do not interpret this as me discounting your intrinsic motivations, but your lack of mentioning what you wanted to get into and what you wanted to do in the future with that ranking says something to me. Isn't that more important? Steve Jobs and Bill Gates achieved their goals for technology and fostered businesses that were at least at one point considered the best or most valuable in the world without any degrees at all. There must be something more to some one's focus on their admission ranking than the actual number it self; Their Dream.
Point of all the above? your view that what i did was irresponsible? good thats my choice,thats not the point of my OP, it was there to reinforce some points that i had made, not for you to comment on why i had repeated.
Not hard to understand brother.
