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Should have focused a bit more on finding volume of cylinders and stuff via integration and done a lot more past trial paper esp. Sami El Horsi and I would've smashed 2u.

Just shows the incompetence of our government. They hired IBM out of all tech companies and after the Queensland payroll disaster who probably outsourced it some engineers in India with a project manager or two in America.

Well we did enjoy that half-year or so period when AUD was on parity if not higher than USD and thankfully electronic retailer reduced prices of TVs and computers just slightly. I'm sure those that did online shopping and car imports also rejoiced for that little while.

2 Unit is more than enough.

If the US, China or South Korea wanted, they could have easily dismantled North Korea in hours and secured complete control in a matter of days. The main reason they don't is that they don't want another refugee crisis.

My school ranked ~100 however I think we have the possibility of getting a 99.95'er given he doesn't screw up English. Our school's definitely expecting at least 10 students to get >98+ which could potentially increase to 20 if the boys pick up in English.

HSC-style Physics and Bio are quite similar in some regards that there is extensive rote-learning in certain topics. However, physics application q’s that require your understanding of physics principle in real world e.g. motor effect are definitely harder than their bio counterparts which at...

For the science subjects I recommend going over your content thoroughly (especially Bio and Chem to an extent) and if you get time do Multiple Choice and scaffold long answer/application question from past trials/hsc. For maths, go through the hardest questions from cambridge and do past...

Our english teachers claim creative writing (as well as essays) get marked twice and average given however if there is significant difference (I'm guessing +/-2 or more) then a third teacher marks and so on. Very unlikely they'll recognise an original story from 5 years back, just double check...

How did everyone go at the troll question of core temperature and surface. I was fooled twice by the question and wasted at least 10 mins for only like 4 marks. I guessed around 10 due to time constraints (the axle one and prison re offending stuff) and about 30 overall being informed guesses...

Don't give up man. HSC is a group effort, if you have a small cohort there is possibility of marks scaling down especially for those that are in mid-last ranks (happened to my school in physics last year). And my advice for 2U is practice, practice. Trust me I was in your boat last year coming...

Well this year our trials started yesterday for biology but that was an exceptional circumstance given that the head teacher for bio is going overseas in a few weeks. The rest of them are from week 5 friday till end of week 7. I only have 3 subjects this year and all 3 happen to be on...

I don't know if they got kicked out but I did see one of the exam "invigilator" escort two girls out to the foyer as soon as they said pens down.

Honourable mention to the locked bathrooms. I think there was only 1 disabled bathroom open like a block or two away fromthe hall and I had to wait 20 mins to get in and after I exited, there were 20 more people waiting in line. Can you not... I read it twice and was still puzzled; so i...

I started off well, did the first 50 questions in less than an hour then spent way too long in the middle and had to rush near the end. But sincerely screw that axle question.

There are definitely stuff you should rote learn such as function of diff. parts of motor, AC v DC adv/disav however it's far more important to know and how to apply motor effect, Lenz's Law, eddy currents, back emf in motors etc. as trials love to pick on application/scenario questions in this...

Tomorrow morning at Homebush with probably like 5000 other students. My prep's been horrible but who gives, you're not meant to "study" for the exam.

Yeah I know many kids who decide to do 12 units in the top selective schools but its mainly cause they've done 1/2 subjects in year 11 accelerated (although for the 4 unit kids, the 2 unit maths doesn't count anyway). Many struggle with 10 units let alone with 12 so you're fine as long you're...

Write a mistakes books. Rewrite the questions and its solutions in a spare exercise book probably a question a page (yes it's not environmentally friendly) and whenever you get time and can't be bothered writing or your sitting on toilet or bus etc. you can read through your previous mistakes so...

I use Matador. Not the best, but got a pack of them for free from my mate.