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whats the best way to go about it ?
its mostly sorta just common sense like i know it since all the copper ones are green/bluey (kinda like copper), iron 2 is a weird green brown half half thing because its like halfway to iron 3 which is just brown because rust and then silver is all creamy and stuff bc it is
 

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readout questions and calcs and stuff is fine, its just memorising how shit works and biofuel/fuel stuff etc. etc. that sucks
 

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also general question; how much theory should be memorised for spec questions? like to what extent do we need to know the physics behind aas, nmr etc? would u be asked questions arnd the theory component or is it mostly analysing graphs
 

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also general question; how much theory should be memorised for spec questions? like to what extent do we need to know the physics behind aas, nmr etc? would u be asked questions arnd the theory component or is it mostly analysing graphs
yeah you need to understand the theory component for sure. I just did a jrahs paper that had a 5 marker on how mass spec worked and you needed to talk about every step the sample goes through from having the electron knocked off to the m/z being found and the readout produced digitally. its so annoying because I reckon I'll get 90-100% of the calculation marks in hsc but drop some stupid rote learning ones
 

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yeah you need to understand the theory component for sure. I just did a jrahs paper that had a 5 marker on how mass spec worked and you needed to talk about every step the sample goes through from having the electron knocked off to the m/z being found and the readout produced digitally. its so annoying because I reckon I'll get 90-100% of the calculation marks in hsc but drop some stupid rote learning ones
yeah i thought as much bc i saw a 4marker on explaining aas and uv-vis, ugh that sucks id rather put energy into skills questions than memorisation
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