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I'm pretty decided with my major. I have my queestion, I have my books (by that I mean I know where I can access the books and I have access there), I've handed in and gotten back my proposal and I know that I can get pretty decent historiography on my historians. My topic is Oliver Cromwell and...

Wow, some people have made a very productive start to the holidays. As for myself; how much study have I done...Not enough considering that I'm leaving for Europe in less than two weeks (pretty exciting) and have an 1500 word english essay to write, around 10 books to read (For english advanced...

Yeah I thought you misintepreted what I said so I attempted to clarify. First in the state in anything (and notably even in one subject) is a formidable achievement while coming first in state in two or more subjects would be astonishing. Hopefully her parents will acquiesce to the giant teddy...

She's awesomely smart and does go to a very good school but we seem to never get many state rankings. Our school had a total of three this year I think, though we did OK overall in the HSC. As smart as she is getting first in the state in one subject let alone all of them (if she's aiming for...

One of my friends has this deal with her parents: -If she tops one subject (i.e. comes first in the state in something for the HSC) she gets a giant teddy bear -If she tops two subjects she gets a kitten -If she tops three subjects she gets a car -If she tops four subjects (or all of her...

My parents subscribe to the idea that my education is purely for my own benefit and thus it is my own responsibility to motivate myself and do well. My parents probably leave me alone because they know they could never motivate me as much as I can motivate myself thus essentially making them...

Though I do make the point now that cut-offs will vary from year to year the general cut-offs for law (combined law in most of the universities) are: USYD: 99.55 UNSW: 99.3 Macquarie: 96 (or so) UTS: 97 (or so) UWS: 90 (Last time I looked but I'm not exactly sure) ANU does straight law and has a...

I wouldn't say that doing something on Obama would be seen as 'History' rather than 'Current Affairs' and that distinction is something that you need to be careful with regarding the project. I would personally recommend that you pick a person (if you decide to do an individual) who has been...

I initially wanted to do something to do with the Cold War but had to change due to inability of doing somthing contained within the Modern History Syllabus. Instead I decided to do Oliver Cromwell and my question is: ‘How have varying contextual backgrounds contributed to changing...

Re: Typed or Written Study notes? I've always been in favour of typing notes rather than handwriting them for a few very prominent reasons. Firstly I often crush/lose/make mistakes in my notes and having a soft copy always avaliable on my computer allows easy access should anything happen to...

Just to expand on this point, the 'Country Party' was the previous name of the 'National Party' and this coalition has essentially continued till this day but no longer under the name of the Liberal-Country Party/Coalition. Menzies who was the leader of the Liberal-Country Party (and I have seen...

They don't allow it so that if you decide that you can't cope with the degree of work required by the two extension 2 courses you have the option of dropping one or both of them instead of being forced to do them for your HSC. Think about it logically, if you thought that you would love e.g...

I felt pretty shattered when I dropped German, probably because I had done German for 4 years and I absolutely loved my class and teacher. I think it's harder to drop a subject when the cohort taking it is small, because you end up knowing your class so well and being very close-knit. I don't...

I would never base a decision, as important (well contextually) as my subject choices on what a teacher supposedly would or would not do. If I did, I would have never done maths in the first place. I picked my subjects because I enjoyed them, wanted to do them and felt that they would be...

lol, That wasn't the only reason I chose it. I think my longwinded rambling about the merits of the course for not only my understanding but also for my envisionment of society as a whole was more the basis of my decision. History is one of my favourite subjects and I chose Extension because I...

If you think about it, the major work is no more than 2500 words, that you get several terms to do and on top of that it is marked internally so it isn't as bad as it sounds. I just find the idea of the course fascinating because it is a major development of the classical high school study of...

I'm going to be in Europe on Orchestra Tour, so that should be fun and take up the bulk of the long summer holidays. I'd also want to get some preliminary reading done for History Extension. I have some vague ideas about the topic I want to do but considering how many times I changed my...

I thought it looked weird too; but you can't just assume that it's Cl2O; that defies the law of conservation of mass if you look at the equation. I looked up Cl2O7 and it does exist; substances can have different oxidation numbers. I might be wrong; but if you make an equation it's the only...

Well for the first question you would use Avogadro's Law (equal volumes of gases under the same condition of temperature and contain the same number of particles). The easiest way to do this is to construct an equation and notate the number of Cl and O atoms as x and y respectively. I.e. 2Cl2 +...

It's just part of the course, essentially so that the Board of Studies can say that the NSW syllabus teaches people to be good and helpful citizens. The questions are essentially along the lines of: 'What is an example of good citizenship' with pretty obvious answers i.e. Getting involved in the...