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Double post again -_- really sorry, BoS is lagging for some reason.

I really wouldn't worry about the rest of your cohort tbh. As long as you are up there, the lower people shouldn't drag you down. How your cohort goes as a whole is something the school should concern themselves with.

Sorry, double post.

LOL yes, pretty much the same. My school went to extreme trouble to procure the latest HSC textbooks. All year they have sat there, pretty much untouched. I guess the people are just so enthusiastic about their learning they went and bought their own *sarcasm*.

Well your consistent ranks certainly say otherwise! You would be considered one of the stronger students. Trust me, this board is by no means an indication of the majority of the state. Most people at my school (ranked in the 100's) use the excuse of scraping the top half of a course to go out...

Wow, the marks on this show that BoS is popular with two main groups of people: selective high school students and the upper end of non-selective. Very strong marks everyone :)

English Ext: 34/40 (1st) Music Extension: 49/50 (2nd) Music 2: Many marks for various aspects of the course (1st) History Extension: Project 27/30 and exam 41/50 (1st) Ancient: 90/100 (1st) Mathematics: 81/100 (5th) English Advanced: They lost my creative but if I do well-1st if not, probably...

While that may be advantageous prior to taking up the course, but its not something that is necessary. It's a course where getting an E4 (at least in the examination) would certainly require for you to read outside the textbook and the blue book of readings (its basically a compilation made up...

I believe your core piece HAS to be Australian and composed in the last 25 years. I don't think you would be allowed to choose and the American one. I had a similar problem and had to stick with my Australian one :(

Short answer: No, don't drop.

Of course, being 1st in everything is the ideal for anyone, that way your cohort's performance will not impact you and you will end up with the top external mark. More realistically, I reckon being in the top 5 would give you a decent chance, especially in subjects with the larger cohorts. Not...

I know it might be different for each module, but would someone be able to tell me some general aspects that differentiate a high band 5 or low band 6 essay from a work that gets full marks? My last English Advanced task is a hand-in essay. Throughout the year I have gotten a few low band 6's...

Or you can just incorporate general quotes by well known people on the art of rhetoric. However, remember that direct quotes about the speeches are safer to use in the introduction and conclusion. They may look clumsy in the body paragraphs if you don't use them well.

Those are great ranks :) Remember its your rank that counts not your mark. So if you do really well in externals, 90+ should be within your reach.

Depends on your rank. However, since you are at a top 30 school, your cohort should pull you up.

I know :( Like, I am just finding it difficult to decide whether to go or not because it might make me seem petty, being disquieted over two marks if my result is already adequate enough to get me 1st place. I'm curious about though (but relieved to know it will probably have no impact on my...

Sorry..I do not understand. The second ranked person has 36/50, so 8 marks behind me. Also we do not have 100 people in our class. So most of you saying its not worth going? I've been speculating a bit, and maybe he changed the marks to lessen the gap between 1st and 2nd? Would this be...

Hmm I don't think he would, considering he is on the whole, a very fair teacher. I doubt the reason for the change in my marks was a personal one. It won't loose me my position, but wouldn't the fact that I got an E4 at school boost up my external and overall marks in any way?

Today, I went to see my History Extension teacher to get my project and trial exam marks back. He showed them to me first and congratulated me on my results (42/50 for trial and 28/30 for project). Then, he went over to the computer to record them. He took quite a while and I was waiting and...

I would personally never do this and its very risky. If you learn your historians, you wouldn't need to do it. Yes, you may not remember exactly what idea goes with what historian but you are much more likely to get away with attributing an idea or quote to Herodotus than to a made up historian...