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  1. smartalec

    im sure you would be great at advanced! im only get 14-16's in advanced -.- but figured unless...

    im sure you would be great at advanced! im only get 14-16's in advanced -.- but figured unless you would be good at standard and would persist at it (such as yourself) then it would probably drag your atar down. but like i said, it will be fine for you, you might even get a band 6 coz those...
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    wow thats very good! why didn't you do advanced?

    wow thats very good! why didn't you do advanced?
  3. smartalec

    hi! i saw a post you wrote in regards to you using ferghsc marking. I'm not sure if I like some...

    hi! i saw a post you wrote in regards to you using ferghsc marking. I'm not sure if I like some of there marking. Just wondering, what types of marks do you get from them out of 20? reading posts it sounds like you are an excellent english student so just wanted to know if they are significantly...
  4. smartalec

    how many pages do they expect you to write in 40 minutes?

    YOUR WRITING IS MASSIVE! I went and counted how many words on average I fit in a line and it was around 8-10. lol.
  5. smartalec

    How important are preferences on UAC application?

    UAC gives you your preferences BASED on preferences and your atar. What they do is this: say you get an atar of 80. if preference 1 needed an atar of 87 then they say, nope. next preference. preference 2 is an atar of 79. So they give you that atar.
  6. smartalec

    raw marks for CAFS/General Maths?

    What raw marks would I need roughly to get an aligned mark of 85+?
  7. smartalec

    Having a pre-set belongings response:

    when you say for example, Felix Skryznecki: cultural aleination from lack of background People and places understanding can lead to an increased identity is that one paragraph and you are intertwining all of those ideas under one topic sentence? or separate?
  8. smartalec

    Estimate for a friend

    thanks guys ill let him know.
  9. smartalec

    belonging essay structure?

    hey guys, for the belonging essay structure, (im doing skrzynecki) can we have an underlying idea/thesis: that belonging is all about the development of ones identity and throughout the essay explore how this through different examples from the poems/related text? E.G. for half my essay I...
  10. smartalec

    Having a pre-set belongings response:

    question about what you said about the three ideas...they all interrelate? E.G. connections to place enables understanding and hence, identity to be evident. How can you separate those ideas then?
  11. smartalec

    Estimate for a friend

    These are his ranks, school rank aprox early-mid 200's. English Advanced = 14/30 Biology = 8/35 Modern History = 5/12 General Maths = 5/110 Studies of Religion 2 = 17/35 Visual Arts = 4/15 He 'reckons' his cohort is stronger though. He is looking at commerce degrees and wants to know...
  12. smartalec

    Raw Marks for lower scaling subjects?

    I just want to know what raw mark I need for a band 5 or 6.
  13. smartalec

    drop to gen or keep maths?

    DONT DROP. most think: 'oh ill drop to general and will automatically get a band 6' WRONG. without a doubt, 90% of mathematics students dropping laugh at the 'ease' of general math, don't study, dont get their band 6.
  14. smartalec

    Raw Marks for lower scaling subjects?

    ok well i mean the mark that is reported to us, so alligned marks.
  15. smartalec

    Raw Marks for lower scaling subjects?

    For low scaling subjects such as general maths and CAFS, does this mean that their raw mark would be similar to their alligned mark? Or does it go up a little bit. The 'mean' scaled mark thingo is aprox 20-21 (im aware, very low.) e.g. If I got 85% raw. Would that be enough for a band 6 in...
  16. smartalec

    Essay marking

    I can help you with hamlet, I did that text last year and received a band 6
  17. smartalec

    Umat Results

    Re: Umat someone in my school ranked 250+ got a umat in the 98th percentile. he is certainly an outlier. he dosent even do any extensions - just shows he'd be a good doctor.
  18. smartalec

    How high does hsc mark has to be?

    http://www.matrixeducation.com.au/atar/atar-calculator.html
  19. smartalec

    How to study for the SC?

    you don't need to. its sc. Its pointlessness is even evident through the board of studies' abolition of it for 2012.
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