basically if you have a certain idea and the extract relates to that idea, you merely just use the extract like a quotebank to further support your idea (i.e take a quote, analyse and explain, do the usual basically)
Advice from my nsb 23 friends (who do TS eliot, they got 96 and 97 exteral in english) as well as talking to a HSC marker: you only need to include it as PART of your essay (i'm assuming you have one prepped, with 3 main ideas), no need to dedicate a whole body paragraph to it (mention it for...
many top selective schools have the worse students pretty much copy the essays of the top kids so they all do better as a cohort so it's not uncommon at all
In my opinion, you should be checking as you do the test (i.e if it's a question that involves calculating values, check it with a calculator and add a tick on the question to indicate that you don't have to check that question), with this method you should have 30 mins left (definitiely not...
It was the very last question of the hsc paper last year, i forgot to account for the fact that the inside of the quadratic could not be negative, which just goes to show that you will probably lose more marks from silly mistakes than actually marks from questions you can't do, so for anyone...
as someone who state ranked last year as an accelerant last year, i think the hardest topic is definitely algebra, especially inequalities for that cost me my #1 state rank :C