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    What do I do?

    I had a similair situation for software. Can you give me your subjects, marks and ranks in y11 as well as your school rank and then I can help think through reasons and how you could explain it to your parents.
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    General Maths Marathon 2014

    Thought we could start a marathon for GM! Answer a question then post another one, preferably questions that are very hard OR easy to make silly mistakes with. I'll kick this off with a wordy question I stumbled on: The earth has a radius of approximately 6400km. -use the formula...
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    i need a example of services that has negative externality

    Hate your definition but electricity is another good one cause it has a negative externality, namely the pollution from power generation stations and use of non-renewable resources
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    i need a example of services that has negative externality

    You could talk about casino's and the risk involved that post people don't worry about, causing many people to lose their lives and their homes and unnecessary redistribution of income. Also with the distinction of goods and services, as retail is a service, you could talk about the sale of...
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    what is market failure?

    It's a big thing in the prelim course, where we look at it as more than related to the environment. This is from my revision prelim notes, hope it helps to some extent: Market failure is when the market fails to take into account the social costs of production as well as the private costs. In...
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    How to excel in senior year studies (yr 11/12)-99+ ATAR graduate

    Re: How to excel in senior year studies (yr 11/12) Would you be able to give some advice on making notes for English? What did you do - I didn't see it already in your posts. I've started a thread here: http://community.boredofstudies.org/7/english-advanced/329400/how-make-english-notes.html
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    How to make English notes?

    Yah hoping she see's this thread :)
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    How to make English notes?

    Ok yup so I think I get the general idea, notes on context as well as thesis and quotes based on themes. Thanks so much for the help!
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    Assignment Fonts

    Doesn't really matter, just use an image your name and the title and make it look professional and simplistic. First impressions count.
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    How to make English notes?

    Currently I'm thinking that for each text I will do: -background/context as well as purpose and form/medium -relation to unit e.g. people, power and politics would be the political views in the text etc. -themes/ideas based each aspect of the syllabus and quotes as well as their techniques...
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    Assignment Fonts

    You'll stand out on the content not the font, also my tip would be if it is IPT make a title page that stands out
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    Em's HSC Journey

    heaps more productive than going on FB, easy to get distracted though by constantly pressing the refresh button on a thread you want an answer to (like the one on English notes I just setup haha)
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    swagmeister's HSC journey

    I've developed a base system for text analyse based on stuff I have read online (Matrix blog) as well as a book called 'science of student success' and what students did there as well as other's english notes (all not relevant for me cause of the new content, but just looking at the structure)...
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    How to make English notes to analyse a text?

    So now comes the point where I have found a bit of motivation and I am about to get serious with English. Any advice for making notes? Currently I'm thinking that for each text I will do: background/context as well as purpose and form/medium relation to unit e.g. people, power and politics...
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    swagmeister's HSC journey

    Finished the crucible, so happy about that! Now setting up how I will analyse it and making a list of the main characters. It's amazing how doing a bit of work makes you feel so much better. Also contacted and English tutor that said 'affordable' in a Gumtree add nek minut he says to me $80 an...
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    swagmeister's HSC journey

    I'm not ahead in the current topic but like with algebra and trig for example I've alredy covered everthing. I dropped 3 days before the yearly and topped the grade, there was a bit of jealousy with that. It's going to be hard to stay rank 1 this year with all the hard work people are putting...
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    swagmeister's HSC journey

    In general maths so covered heaps of the hsc stuff when I did 2u for most of prelim, not really trying to get ahead with maths but there are so many resources I find it easy to learn by myself, then I just ask the teacher if I hve questions.
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    13 units for HSC?

    This makes me worried haha, but I am upping my game as well
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    swagmeister's HSC journey

    Probably about to get 1, we are starting with topic 2 so going to be making a database. We have only had 2 lessons of the HSC course so far though, and in the 1st one we chose our option topics (decision support systems and multimedia) and the the 2nd one we worked together on a basic database...
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    swagmeister's HSC journey

    So I didn't get that much done yesterday except debating which country to use for my case study in Eco, thinking Ireland if I am not still forced to do China. I also started compiling a list of notes I have found online, and had a look at some things for IPT. No real hard work though, was quite...
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