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  1. ZakaryJayNicholls

    HSC Maths Exam Gets an F for Failing Our Students

    Schoolteachers and students often take the exams too seriously. The main thing exams tell you is if you worked hard enough leading up to it, because you get a rank the overall difficulty is irrelevant as long as it produces a clear distribution. In addition, the HSC exams are simply an...
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    Company Tutoring Pay?

    I think Jimmy smiths answer is fairly good. I can add a different perspective which might be helpful. I've been a trainer and tutor for the past 12 years, I have worked with hundreds of tutors and taught over a thousand students, and I can tell you my career is pretty typical of your skilled...
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    The Maths in Focus books by Grove are simpler with good easy/medium difficulty questions. The...

    The Maths in Focus books by Grove are simpler with good easy/medium difficulty questions. The Cambridge books by Pender are excellent, they have easy through to difficult questions, with excellent descriptions. If you are a student far ahead of others, the Adv+EX1 New Essential Math & New...
  4. ZakaryJayNicholls

    Any tips for Year 12?

    If you were one of my students and you asked me what I thought, I would say take EX2 MATH if you like math and drop CHEM, this is because CHEM is notorious for being a time sink (takes heaps of time which could be allocated to something like extension english or extension math). Unless you know...
  5. ZakaryJayNicholls

    Were 2020 and 2021 HSC exams easier?

    I've taught HSC math for the last 12 years, and I am almost certain that the 2020 and 2021 math papers were the easiest papers which have appeared in the past 20 or so years. I was surprised by how straight forward many of the questions were (especially in the Advanced paper), but we were in...
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