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  1. nhoustonrocks

    Having a job

    Wow, that's heaps of hours, I hardly do that during the school holidays! And thanks for everyone else for your advice!
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    Having a job

    Hi everyone, I'm still tossing up whether I should keep my job next year, I'm not sure if it's going to affect my performance or whatever. I would really like to go travelling after the hsc and obviously I'm going to need money for that. If you've had a job during the hsc, can you tell me how...
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    How many people are in your class?

    English Advanced: 22ish. General Maths: 23. Geography: 14 Economics: 10 Biology: 15 Ancient History: 16
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    5 Things You Like (And Dislike) About Your School!

    5 things I like about Abbotsleigh: 1. the new water taps to fill up drink bottles.. 2. the fact that since its private, school finishes like 2 weeks earlier than others. 3. can access your school documents and emails from home without needing to carry a laptop. 4. school camps (but over...
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    Year 11 vs Year 12

    Year 12..because all my courses have gotten so much more interesting, more free periods, year 12 privileges (common room, lunch leave etc.) and i dropped 2u maths :)
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    Option topics

    I don't think they cover any options in Biology in Focus.
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    Subject Selection Help please

    Are you going into year 11 next year? If so, you can’t do English Extension 2 until year 12, but you will need to do extension 1 english in year 11 to be eligible.
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    Physics or Geography

    geography!!
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    2009 Preliminary Yearlies Discussion Thread

    re: Preliminary Yearlies Discussion Thread my exams started last week: monday - english advanced tuesday - geography wednesday - maths thursday - ancient & economics and next week: tuesday - biology. 5 day weekend, woohoo!!! :D
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    Future Plans (UAI/Uni/Tafe/Job)

    Re: What UAI&Course are you aiming for? b business @ UTS - don't really care if i go to kuring-gai, since I live closer to there anyhow. b commerce/b arts @ macquarie b commerce/b arts @ UNSW b business/b arts in international studies @ UTS. would like an ATAR over 90 :)
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    What subjects are you doing for Year 12?

    english advanced. mathematics biology economics geography ancient history
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    Best Subject in Half Yearly Report Year 11

    Best was Ancient History & Geography. Worst was Maths....
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    Ancient V Modern

    I do ancient and when I found out that my class was going to be doing Egypt for pretty much the whole HSC course (except the pompeii topic), I was pretty bummed because I wanted to do Greece or Rome. But we've done a little bit on Egypt for our first Ancient Society and I love it! I don't regret...
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    swine flu..

    turns out that all our assessment tasks have been postponed until next term :) its funny, because all our assemblies, chapels and any special functions have been cancelled for the rest of the term and since there are so many people not coming to school, we don't do any work. so i've decided...
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    Subjects that you ace but hate

    Year 10 Aus. Geography. i hated my teacher to bits and i found the course content to be quite dull. but i managed to top my class for all the tests/assignments.
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    swine flu..

    I think there's going to be a LOT of complaints tomorrow in our grade. There's quite a few assessment tasks this week that obviously the boarders won't be doing this term including a modern history essay, drama performance, extension english essay, english advanced speech and some studies of...
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    swine flu..

    umm, in the email we got today it said that "due to the close community living arrangements in Boarding and the highly infectious nature of this influenza, we have decided to close the Boarding houses for the remainder of this term." this is like the first time ever that i want to be a boarder...
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    swine flu..

    yeah.. i guess so. god damn, i hate monologues. + swine flu.
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    swine flu..

    ..has come to our school. 2 boarders have gotten it, so now all the boarders are going home. but for all the day girls (including me), we still have to stay at school and do the assessments we have for the last week. i have an english dramatic monologue due on tuesday, and we still have to do...
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    Free Period?

    haha, I don't really give a crap about it anymore, I just go to the library and get my name marked off and then sneak out and go home. Done it since the beginning of the term and haven't been caught :)
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