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If you go back further, I found 1995 fairly hard (114) and 1993 quite challenging (110). General rule of thumb is the further you go back the harder they get.

Cover everything lightly today, then cover the areas you think are more likely in depth tommorrow.

I got the highest mark in our trial with about 900 words?

Dude, read what I said about criteria and bands and percenages. HSC bands are about the standards you perform to, not about how easy you personally found the exam.Oh and clintmyster your 93/105 would have been 4-5th out of 182 at grammar. Unless you're getting majorly overmarked, that's pretty...

Doubt it. This paper wasn't easy, not by a long shot.Also, remember that BANDS are not determined by the percentage of people over a mark. If everyone else in the state gets 104/105 and you get 103/105, you will presumably still get well into a band 6. The converse, of course, can be seen in...

Meh, I have ancient then maths.A joke subject and then an easy subject.

That's like 60 papers or something over an entire year. It's not really that many.

I'm out of papers. Does anyone know where to get more? (Other than HSC, Ruse, and Grammar as I've done all of those up to about 92)

In our school, people who have come 2nd or 3rd or worse have topped the state as long as the gap is big enough (e.g. Pope was 7th in Latin and topped the state) if that helps?

I think they meant the theme of loyalty/disloyalty.I had to make it up as I went, basically cuttign down my prepared essay and inserting bullshit like "Inaction in Hamlet acts as a vechile through which Shakespeare reinforces the value of loyalty ... *bullshit about not killing Claudius* shows...

Um, how does Sefton go in the HSC for English?Last year we had over 70 people I think over 90 as a HSC mark in English, and 8 over 90/105 as a raw trial mark. This year it's similar. Although for some reason we never score that highly at the top end. It's been a while since we state ranked in 2...

I'm pretty sure they wouldn't be allowed to ignore work like that.Examiners feeding them into the compurer would probably check the hardcopy of your exam to make sure anything isn't on the other pages, in which case they'd presumably photocopy them too. They're not out to get you.

We only have 3 doing it this year ... such a drop from the 6 or so last year.But I'm pretty sure they'll get 1,2,3 in the state. MAYBE thomas wilson or somebody can move into that, but they look as good, if not better, then last year.

Relatively straightfoward I thought. Don't understand why people are complaining about the essay, all it meant was you had to do less work. I actually really liked it because it meant I didn't have to rush my texts.

No, the disproportionate 1 unit is easily History Extension. 4Eng shouldn't be hard as long as you work at it from the very start, and don't have to rush it all at the end.At to the OP's question about why people do it, it's a) quite fun and b) does help your ATAR.The reason it's not SCALED well...

I think I did reasonably well. 6.5 for hamlet, 8 for H+M and F+B. probably about 51-52/60.

How on earth would removing time limits help it NOT be a test of memory? All the skill of writing to the question in a concise response would get bloated into who can remember shitloads of quotes/techniques ect.I know people who can write 3 pages in modules and get 18-19. It's not the time limit...

As my teacher always says "If you think it's easy, that's probably because you answered the wrong question." If you just plowed through your own thesis into the Critical (especially Hamlet, loyalty was a bitch) or Comparative ect. (esp F+B) then your not going to get above a 16 at most. The...

Once again, if you thought the questions were straightfoward and easy, it probably means you didn't answer them properly.

Do 12 units with those sort of subjects. The subjects you have chosen are all hugely demanding. 4Maths is huge, English Extension and Extension 2 are the equivalent of 2 unit subjects in their workload to do well, you've chosen the two big rote-learning sciences, and another big humanity in eco...