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Yeah I was thinking of probably the entry level 13 inch. I heard that they had to remove a screen component (I think the glass cover) for the retina display model so it might be even more prone to damage and harder to repair.

I've only ever used PC's before and my last computer, a Dell more or less snapped in half from the years of constant lifting and closing of the screen. The plastic on the hinges snapped and the audio output stopped working. I liked that the macbooks have the unibody aluminium structure instead...

I'm hoping that it will take me at least to graduation which is 3.5 years away and I don't really like changing laptops so hopefully a while after that as well. At the moment I use my laptop everyday, but not for anything vigorous, mainly just downloading/watching videos, doing...

I'm confused as to what worries you with the bonus points? If you do the subjects that are applicable and get the marks you should get up to 5 which will put you over the cut-off (assuming it doesn't change). I got in to advanced science with a main round offer, which was 95 with a 91.15 because...

I'm planning on buying a macbook pro (my first one) and I was wondering if it's worth paying the extra $350 for a 3 year warranty. I asked my friend if she bought one and she didn't because they're reliable, but my family's ipad broke and when we went into apple, they replaced it for free...

No. If every other HSC student has to suffer through writing a shitty creative piece on belonging then you should too. You're going to have to write one eventually for the external exams so you might as well write it now. If your teacher said you could take the ideas, then use the story for...

For the area of study paper, I'd suggest refreshing your knowledge of visual and language techniques. For all the essay questions, that's essentially what my English teacher told us to do. It's impossible for them to teach you every theme in relation to every question they can possibly ask, so...

He made a post on the tutorial forum about a student that wrote an email about what they thought of the course.

Just quietly, what did you guys think of the email Julian got where someone anonymously bagged out the entire course and how he ran it?

Woah. True, I would have had to make it work somehow. Good luck with all of those exams!

Technically we still have the prospective biography to do (which I'm peer reviewing right now) but I don't know how I would have handled 4 exams, so definitely thankful haha.

Haha I know, I've already gone back to study the concepts I didn't get so that I do now, I've almost finished up the tutorial sets, and am halfway through the practice paper, but I'm still not confident

Getting stressed at this point. I'm so screwed for chem since I haven't done any study since mid-terms and I'm paranoid about psych since I did shit on the last 2 assessments. Though bio will be easy as.

The scaling for all of those subjects is really good. For workload, you can get by on the bare minimum for english and SOR, but you'll obviously have to dedicate a larger portion of your time to the others. I found that my stress levels were more linked with how well the teacher taught the...

I was pretty much choosing between UNSW and USyd. UNSW had the course I wanted with great structure (they already had the honours year added on already), they offered me 5 bonus points for just doing well in my subjects (which I don't think USyd offered and so lowered the atar I needed), seemed...

I assume you mean only the prescribed texts but not any of your related material? It's not recommended, and I don't want to instil false hope but yes it is possible. I only read 3/5 of my core texts and one of my related texts and I managed a band 6. Just keep in mind that you have to make up...

I agree with pretty much everything that has been said so far. I used a song, but only as my secondary back up text, which I didn't end up having to use. As a primary related text, you do need a text with a lot of 'substance in it' since with English you want to pack in as many different...

Actually since we were also on the topic of general college admission in the US, I just read this article posted in the Washington Post. I think this highlights the benefits of our admission system, since if you put in the hard work and get the results, there's no question if you'll get in.

Well as far as I know the acceptance is based on all of them, but it really depends on the individual. There's always stories about people who are perfect on paper but screw the interview or people who apply but don't think they'll get in, getting in.

Just briefly looking at the SAT on wikipedia, the HSC looks way harder. Each of the three sections is only just over an hour and since it's standardised it doesn't seem to be testing any specific content in each part. Also, I remember a relative saying you can take the SATs as many times as you...