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I can ask DS about Yukeembruk, but from our general chats, there seems to be more social activities and networking at the traditional colleges of ANU - Bruce (new buildings, but established alumni, including NeMeSiS ex students), Burton & Garran, Burgmann, John XXIII, Ursula and Wright.

Yes, Ursies is the cheapest catered hall, fairly small, friendly and currently punching above their weight in the interhall comps.😁 My son originally applied for Wright as it is the only one with the option of catered or self catered but he really enjoyed being at Ursies last year and returned...

I recommend Pearson as well. My youngest was using other textbooks recommended by her teachers, but when my son came home between university semesters, we realised he is tutoring from Pearson and his sister liked it so much, she got Pearson for both physics and biology.

I suspect many people in the education depts confuse equity (which the media and public demand) with equal outcomes. It would take a lot more resources to improve the performance of the bottom students, who often are in the lowest socioeconomic quartile, so they simply drop benchmarks and that...

Physics isn’t taught well at high schools. My son’s physics teacher readily admitted he didn’t understand the equations my son used in his physics assignment beyond the high school sheet, which DS used to account for friction in the real world vs frictionless reality, so gave him 100%. Probably...

In between the prices of the generation 10 and Pro is the iPad Air. I bought my youngest an Air at the beginning of last year for Yr 11, with the full Microsoft suite. It is also fine with Geogebra software which her school uses for maths extension 1 & 2. I’m sorry if it’s still out of your...

Is the Yr 7 student at JRAHS? Curious why you’re specifically requesting an ex James Ruse graduate. In the pre-digital era, I actually received the JRAHS maths master’s medal and was his ‘trailblazer’ for Olympiads etc, but my son, who chose to attend our local public school, is a far better...

My eldest was 16 when she finished her HSC and because she wanted to do medicine, I encouraged her to take a gap year to make sure it was what she really wanted. She volunteered at a nursing home and loved helping the elderly residents and she was well loved by them and their families, which...

There are plenty of explanations on the internet, so unsure what you are seeking specifically. https://www.chemistrylearner.com/mclafferty-rearrangement.html Essentially, it was a phenomenon discovered specifically with mass spectrometry, a method used to identify molecules by their overall...

DNA is amplified before the sequencing step. Thirty cycles produce about a billion DNA templates, so for example, if the ddNTP:dNTP ratio is 1:1000, then a million fragments would be the ballpark number for each terminating ddNTP representing any particular position, so the probability that a...

Glad to hear you got into the extension maths class.

HI Yunhong, I messaged you privately a couple of weeks ago. Just checking that you got that message. Best wishes, EM

Music 1 is a bit disappointing in how poorly it scales. My son, a self taught musician, scored 96 in Music 1 but it scaled so poorly, it wasn’t included in his ATAR. Ah well, at least he enjoyed taking it as a subject. @Life’sHard, so what do you think of the dynamics of his latest arrangement...

R & D Engineering student with straight HDs At Uni, including adv maths, adv physics & adv programming (previously scored 98 in HSC adv maths in Yr 9, 98 in MEx1 in Yr 10, 97 in MEx2 in Yr 11) available for 1 on 1 online maths and/or physics tutoring ($65/hr). Offering one free trial lesson.

A lot of schools offer compacted programs for individual subjects in Yr 11, so there must be ways to cover preliminary & HSC content in the one year, but no way they can enrol a student a couple of months before the HSC.

I agree with you - I don’t think they can since the school has to submit assessment marks. The student wouldn’t have completed the tasks (assignments, tests, trials), so they would have to give them zero for all the assessments that they missed.

I’m not trying to elicit identifying info, but is your child already at Beecroft Public? Beecroft Public ranked third overall in the last NAPLAN (https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/naplan-year-5-results-the-state-s-top-schools-revealed-20230222-p5cmls.html). That sort of result suggests that...

You might find this previous BoS thread useful: https://boredofstudies.org/threads/difference-between-evaluate-and-assess.316123/ ‘Assess’ and ‘Evaluate’ do overlap a fair bit; in an ‘assessment’, you’re generally given some criteria against which given data should be compared, whilst in an...

I did include ‘but this might be too early for you OP if you are doing stage 5 maths.’ It actually sounded like OP might be doing Yr 11 maths even though they are in Yr 10. Generally, I think it’s a better approach to teaching to say ‘yes, you’re right, but that’s something you’ll learn about...