Recent content by jodongo

Yeah, there's no option for tutors here. I am trying really hard. I looked up some sample responses for the exam and how to write them, and I saw that you have to write a "thesis". My teacher has never even mentioned that to us. Where can I get information on writing essays? Also, I feel like...

Ever since my school picked up the HSC curriculum, no student has ever achieved band 4 and above in English! And they only offer standard! My teacher is pretty nice but she sucks at teaching English. I feel like it's affecting my marks. I barely managed to scrape an A in term 1. My...

Shakespeare uses alliteration.... Alliteration is used by Shakespeare.... Are they not both present tense? It's just that one is active and one is passive. But I've been told that it's better to avoid using the passive and to use the present tense, as that is what the "academics" do.

My school does Shipwrecks but the teacher said that if we want to choose another one then we may go ahead.

HELP!!! Which option topic should I choose? I'm leaning towards Shipwrecks and Industrial but also like Forensics... Is it true that Industrial "scales" better? What reasons are there that I should choose one over the others?

Does school rank matter? UAC claims that it doesn't...

BTW I saw someone on this site with 99.80 who did English Standard so I guess IT IS POSSIBLE... ???

tan 30 = x/18 .:x = tan 30 * 18 = 10.4 (1 d.p.) But that's only from the person's head. You still have to add two metres (the person's height) .:h = 12.4 (am I right?)

For me in2 PHYSICS is my favourite because I started reading it in Year 10 and it made me love and enjoy physics. The Jacaranda one is not bad and Physics in Focus follows the syllabus precisely. So any of them are good.

But the Maths Extensions are the highest scaling subjects...

There's a girl called Natalie Buckett who got 99.95 with just English Advanced and Extensions and some languages... without maths.

Thanks for the links and all your replies. By the looks of it, though, it looks like I won't be moving schools anytime soon (I'm studying offshore and there's only one school in the country offering the NSW curriculum), so I guess I have a lot of reading and studying to do.

How far into the preliminary course are we supposed to be right now? The exams are supposed to be next term.

So is there any mark that you can achieve in English Standard to practically guarantee an ATAR of 99.90+?

Okay. But suppose you're not that good at English Standard (or you're stuck with a terrible teacher) and you just manage to scrape a HSC mark of 80. And in the rest of your courses you get high band 6s. What are the chances of getting 99.90?