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I took it seriously, but always kept in mind that it didn't really matter if I failed or didn't do my best. So if I didn't do well in something I wouldn't get hung up on it, and I didn't care about rankings, etc. The biggest motivation I had was to get the stuff finished and handed in on time.

That's right. We should encourage the world at large to be writing responses like this: gday. the movies set in a city in america and the music is good and stuff.the soundtrack makes you think about crime and shit, and how like, weird it can be and stuff. its like the guy in the movie is spying...

Generally pretty easy but a looooooooot of content. It'll probably be shit easy after the syllabus changes for next year though. Apparently they've cut some out. (I can't be bothered to look at how different it is.)

This. I believe this in itself is also an Americanisation. Possibly intentional?

You write well and (at least from what you've shown here) seem to have a great vocabulary. But you should consider that in the HSC, markers are often just looking for you to get straight to the point. Consider that these markers sit there for hours on end and just want to be able to read a...

I dropped down from 3U to 2U maths and took up EE2. So I guess this is true for me.

A full stop on its own will be counted. But if it's a full stop at the end of a word, only the word will be counted. Essentially MS Word counts every character that's "on its own" as a word. E.g. if you had "* . -" they would say this is three words. "*.-" on the other hand, would only be...

Belonging is complex.

boganxcore: I did the same. I really don't even care anymore. I mean, they're going to have to be pretty dedicated to their jobs if they're going to attempt to navigate their way through my journal anyway. :/

My story was 36 pages, reflection statement 5 or something. I handed those in yesterday, my teacher insisted I didn't need to keep working on it because it was good despite my insistence that it was total crap. I'm still not happy with it at all. :/ I'm now frantically trying to get my journal...

Lol at everyone posting on the EE2 threads at the wee hours of the morning. I've been up all night trying to get everything together, my teacher wants everything handed in this afternoon before 5. :/ She actually thinks my story's going to do well. Boy, will she get a shock when those marks get...

I actually read earlier in the notes from the examiner's centre (last year's version) that the markers actually prefer the bibliography in the journal rather than attached to the story / reflection. That's just some food for thought... You can read the thing on the board of studies website.

I'm glad I'm not the only one. :/ My teacher told me nothing about this, so I'm kinda glad I read this thread, even if it IS only like 30 hours before the thing's due...! My teacher did tell me to paste in copies of my internal assessments though, so I guess a lot of my "intent" is included in...

Our school did the CSSA trials but our teacher also bought the independent ones so we have a greater variety of questions for practice essays, creatives, etc before the HSC. We got back our marks (from the CSSA Trial) today and had a look at the independent ones afterwards and I must say I'm so...

Currently have mine sitting at around 1600 but there was more I wanted to add. I may try and further summarise what I have so that I can add more stuff, and hopefully not go over around 1600... I doubt it's going to stick out like a sore thumb being around 100 words over, but something like 300...

Congrats marquelle! I hope that's the way I'll be feeling tomorrow evening. My reflection statement (for a short story) currently contains around 10 footnotes, but I do still need to cut down on my word count so who knows if some of those references might just have to go. Though, in standards...

This crap is driving me insane. I can in no way cull down my entire years' worth of investigation, the writing process AS WELL AS REFLECTION into 1500 words. It just isn't happening. As much as I read examples from showcase / standards packages etc, I just seem unable to get mine to emulate that...

If you're going to make things up, just make sure it's consistent throughout your story, reflection statement and journal as well...

I'm not really talking about individual schools, because many have different voting processes, etc to decide prefects and captains. But chances are the only reason people even get a look-in for captaincy / prefecture at many schools is popularity. I'm not saying this is a good or bad thing, but...

Lol, there's a lot of that going on for me as well.