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I think the best thing would probably be to pick a few topics that look really interesting, and just start learning about them for fun, I guess. Really delve into them in ways that won't be possible when there's the HSC coming up and you have to study what's going to be on the exam. That way...

Just finished the Elita series by Kate Jacoby

Take back what I said before. My dad just told me that if I don't get 99+, I'll be shot. There's my motivation, I guess...

My parents just expect me to do well on my own, so they never bribe me. My sister, on the other hand, slacked off most of her life, so whenever she brings home an A they're all "oooh $$$ shopping spree, well done sweetie!" This may or may not have anything to do with the fact that my sister...

you got that from Jess, right? :D

Re: Mindmaps for everything?? Yup, it really depends on finding out what is best for you...no one solution is an automatic mark-booster...etc, etc... With that disclaimer, I find using mind-maps is good to get an overview of the subject, sort out all the ideas in my head, summarise the...

Just out of interest, what will you do if you get into the course, but you don't get 90?

The ANU website says that a bachelor of commerce there only needs a UAI of 75... Personally I wouldn't repeat year 12 - there are better ways of getting into the course you want, like transferring (as others have pointed out). And if you just want a UAI of 90 for the sake of it, well... it...

Private girls school - it's nice, I guess...

Our school gave us this whole lecture about how we should just go with our surnames because it's classy and we won't regret it when we're older... ...and then turned around and said that we couldn't have surnames because we might get stalked or something!

On grade 11 camp: our physics teacher walked into our cabin to tell us to go to bed, and saw we were eating lolly snakes. We offered her one, and she started talking about how she used to be really good at tying knots in them with her tongue - so we dared her to do it. After struggling for a...

We get book prizes for topping subjects, plus prizes for coming in the top 10%, and a prize for coming first in the grade. In year twelve there are a gazillion more prizes (as in, there is something wrong with you if you *don't* get a prize, because practically everyone in the grade gets...

I love stationery lists :D I bought most of my stuff the other day, and now I want the next six weeks to be over already so I can go to school and use it all! The only thing left to buy is a new toolbox to keep all of this stationery...

I've already started studying... ...if by studying you mean spending hours looking up that perfect course and the fantastic uni lifestyle I'm going to have if I get a UAI of 99, instead of actually doing the work required to get said UAI of 99...

Re: Future Plans: What UAI/course/job are you aiming for? Aiming to get into the Bachelor of Engineering (Research and Development) at ANU, which is 98.00... but I want 99.50 to get a scholarship so I can afford to actually go there...

I love the parts of maths where you have to prove things, and where you can see all the interlinking concepts which join to create a whole web of maths which you can use to find different solutions to problems, and different reasons why something is true, and different proofs and such. I love...

Re: What UAI/course are you aiming for? UAI...99 or so? 98? OP1 would be good. Anyway, I want to do some combination of physics and computer science, and right now ANU sounds awesome to me (I have a friend who goes there)...but that's all I know :D

1. age gender religion 16, female, none 2. do you selebrate any religious holidays I celebrate Christmas/Easter and that, but not because of the religion 3. what do you beleive is the meaning of australia day To get together with all your South African mates and have drunken...

I don't have the commitment, time or money to have a tutor...which is just as well, because everyone I know thinks tutoring is for dumb people. Nobody does tutoring just to learn cool stuff...

How can you guys remember 10-day timetables? I find it hard enough remembering 5-day ones :) I like our system, every week the same, every lesson the same length...I'd get so confused if it didn't follow that very easy pattern! I have 5 frees a week, but I have to do maths in them coz it's...