Attrition - a type of warfare that attempted to wear and grind down your enemy through continuous and large casualties and resource use.
The meaning that you have for a full frontal assault is linked with attrition - the Germans under Falkenheyn thought that as long as the Germans suffered less...
For instance, you could create a powerpoint presentation/speech on your chosen personality, or alternatively, create an assignment where you grab questions from past HSC papers to examine them on the Personality Studies Section (so with the outline of their life and also a historical quote that...
I'm guesstimating most assessments in senior years would either be hand-in essays or an assignment full of questions. You could get speeches or seminar presentations. For WWI, we had 45 minutes to complete an assessment that was similar to Section I of the MH paper.
Writing essays before-hand...
Well, they're generally cheaper and the discounts can go up to 75% off as the SRC bookshop website states.
With the right editions, you can try search up what the latest edition of the book is and compare it with what the bookshop offers.
Membership at Co-op is $20 I think. And the second hand bookshop at Wentworth Building and the Co-op bookshop are two separate entities, so you can use both if you want to.
EDIT: Unless things do improve dramatically and rapidly in the next two years (highly unlikely with all this bitter factional fighting), then my vote's going to the Liberals.