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I have no idea what the SAC is :) You'll have to explain what that means... Queensland has the Core Skills Test at the end of the year, but it doesn't have anything to do with any subjects and you can't really study for it, it just makes sure you know the basics of english, maths etc from...

Haha, that's really awesome about the 666 thing

It's alright, it's just fiction, nothing special. But my maths assignment is based on it, or the mathematics in it anyway :) Just thought I'd add that...

Books, because illiterate fools don't deserve to know the story... Haha, I'm not that harsh. But it annoys me when people start talking about the story and think that they're so awesome because they've seen the movie, but they can't be bothered putting the effort into reading the book. Oh...

So I got my Maths C (maths ext) assignment yesterday, and it's really odd :confused: We have to research an option topic that we each got randomly assigned - mine is the pentagram. And then we have to teach it to the rest of the class, in ten minutes, and include relevant activities and...

I see, that makes sense then :) But it would still make sense to me to at least give it a try, like you did. I have a friend who was really good at maths in year 10, but then this year she dropped down to Maths A (=general maths) because she figured she could just do a bridging course or...

We have a system in Qld, I'm not sure if you have it in NSW/wherever, with field positions. Basically, every subject is given a ranking from 1-5 (5 being highest) in 5 different fields, eg Field A is like extended written response, another one's for practical performance, another for short...

If the course requires english, then the kids can choose english, but if it doesn't, why make it compulsory? -- I have no idea why I'm arguing this. I like english. I really don't feel that strongly about it, but oh well :)

When my parents were growing up that's what they had at their schools. They were english language and english lit. They were both rigorous subjects in their own right, eg language wasn't just the dumb subject, you had to learn all this linguistics stuff. But if you are going to have a...

Exactly. If they can do all humanities, others can do all sciences. --- Year 10 should emphasise basic skills. You should learn all the main things you need to know for your everyday life, like english language, maths, etc. Year 11/12 should be whatever you choose. Most people I...

Move to Qld. There's no such thing as HSC externals.

But year 11/12 is essentially post-compulsory education (yes I know that's not really true, but you don't have to be in school, you could be at TAFE or something), so why must you have a wide range of subjects? I can understand at year 10 level, making you do english/maths/science or whatever...

I have no evidence to back up this position (sorry, lyounamu!), but if you found the 2U course too difficult in the first place, wouldn't you find the uni bridging course in itself difficult, and the rest of the course which required it? Obviously there are special cases, but as a general rule...

Qld's turn, just because I feel like it :rolleyes: QCE=HSC OP=/=UAI (but *roughly* equivalent) OPs are about the only part of the Qld system which is inferior to NSW's. And back on topic: I study by discussing and arguing everything I learn with anyone who'll listen, and by teaching...

I don't think that English should be compulsory (except possibly, as foram suggested, for people who didn't do well in previous years and haven't developed the basic skills, but then should be developing basic skills like sentences and grammar). Every subject has skills that will help in other...

Yeah but think of all the movies which have been made of books, they are always *one* person's idea of what it should be. That's alright if it is a book that is just "alright", so it doesn't matter if it's that good or not, but I love these books so much... And also, I don't like movies...

Yeah, that's the same with me. Pressure doesn't really affect my marks so much, but when I do mess up an assessment, people are always all, "don't worry, you're so smart, I'm sure you did really well" and then when marks come back I feel really bad because everyone was expecting me to do so...

Mmm. I much prefer doing that, because it doesn't rely so much on time ("I must study maths from 6 - 7" when you might just sit around doing nothing for an hour) but on actual tasks ("I must do this, that and the other" so you actually complete the tasks you've set for yourself). And also it...

Very true! Very important! Also don't try and study *every* subject *every* day. After doing any assigned homework, I find it easiest to just focus on one or two max subjects a day, and really getting into it. Doing homework exercises for each subject ensures that you don't let yourself...

NEVER say that. A movie would kill it. Movies always do that to books :burn: