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Down.. IF.. hypothetically if everyone in the entire cohort (including yourself) aced the HSC exam? Lets say person A slacked off the entire year, realized "oh shet"... and then persuaded his 8 man class to all undergo rigorous perfectionist training to get 90+ in the exams. Will the BOS...

Not sure if accident or not, but "atards" could be quite a popular term for describing the system and those who advocate it. Im not taking a side here until i get my ranking, just calling it early.

Not true, DO NOT unstructure, and NEVER humor... i'v had my share of 5/20 speeches, believe me. What you want to be doing is, write your essay, and then write goodmorning, and goodafternoon one line above, and one line below the intro and conclusion, and then maybe at the beginning of every...

I'v just noticed that, in the standard's package, for a question such as "what is your personal understanding of so and so". Unanimously, without fail, the band 1 responses all started with "my understanding" or had some form of first person. Similarly the band 6 responses had no trace of...

Its because the system fails at teaching math and science, and rewards students who have prevailed despite its bad teaching. If math and science was taught better, more people would get higher marks, more people would be interested. Now we see kids coming into kindergarten wanting to be...

You want to A) slow down doing the papers. It could be quite possible if that time you spent going over the exam after you'd finished was used doing the exam right the first time around you'd have got a better mark. This is not to say you shouldn't go over your work. But going over your work...

A good way to treat it is that, your marks reflect how much time you actually benefited doing the course. Eg. 100 hours 2 unit course, if you get 50%, basically a person who attended only HALF the classes could have done what you did. Another way is, to consider it like a living creature, say...

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Im not complaining im just curious as to what it is. It's either the UNSCALED HSC mark (although its pretty misleading named 'scaled HSC mark /100'.... Or it could be, your scaled external EXAM mark. Anybody shed some meaningful light on this please?

How can one make so many spelling mistakes when the forum OFFERS spell-check?!

What does the HSC scaled /100 column represent? (its the fourth column across, its values are unchangeable but set themselves based on what you type in as your HSC mark.)

Well if the whole cohort (everyone that does that particular subject in your school) does well, then yes you've got it easier than if they don't do well. UNLESS your coming first internally. Because that means, you will get the top external mark as your internal mark (so if the whole school is...

HSC is a measure of will power, not a measure of Intelligence. Sure Intelligence helps, but i think technique, and willpower will do you better than Intellect pound for pound.

Perhaps in a couple more decades, learning by implantation will be a reality. And wel'l all walk around with access to Google implanted into our brains. (and with access to google, comes access to redtube:P)

I think calculus's Optimization sub-topic, in 2u is more relevant and valuable to real life than almost the entire General maths course.

English is the hardest to study for, because they don't teach you what you need to get full marks. They teach you what you need to get roughly 75%. The rest is something you've gotta develop.

What I have understood so far is this, they take the cohort's (All the people in your school that do the subject) external performance (The mark they got for the HSC exam), and assign values FROM that external performance to people as their internal mark, BASED on their internal ranking. What i...

What i think writting notes DOES do well, however, is keep the students attention focused on what he/she is doing. Although its still a pretty clumsy and in-efficient way of doing this. My personal "Learning nuggets" include; -Visualising the topic being discussed, read. It keeps attention...

Sure, everyone learns things differently, but there must be some fundemental force that drives the "click" causing a certain concept to be retained permanantly. Im sure we've all experienced, the feeling with a certain concept that just sticks better than the others. "Oh, yeah im pretty good...

Not true, this systems been in place since the dawn of the industrial age. It was used to train armies of workers for simple jobs. They weren't to ask questions, or have any idea of the "why" behind what they were doing, just to press button, put package in hole, press button, put package in...