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  1. alcalder

    Spiel

    Gern höre ich Deustches Musik! Besonders wenn ich SBS Radio anhören. Ich habe Deutsches Musik für das HSC studiert - meistens Herbert Grönemeyer. Was für andere Sprache kannst du auch sprechen oder lernst du auch?
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    How to think of idea?

    AND, think of a few "What If?" querstions that are related to your area of interest. As everyone knows who studies Specualtive Fiction, that's where it all starts. eg. What if the Nazis actually took Russia? What if no nuclear bombs were dropped on Japan? What if Einstein had not existed? What...
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    NSW Writers Centre - WORKSHOPS

    New Extension 2 student and your teacherss, please consider these workshops at the NSW Writers' Centre in Callan Park, Rozelle. They will certainly help you on your way for next year. If you are interested in membership, follow the weblink on the article. It is well worth it and you receive a...
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    studying 8-10 hrs a day during STUVAC

    Please, please, please, make some sort of physical activity part of your study routine. It will help get you motivated, clear the head and refresh you to sit again. If you play sport, keep doing it! Don't stop doing stuff just to study. And you can study for 8-10 hours a day, but if you do it...
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    Graduation Discussion

    Ah, keep the ol' uniform and see if you can still fit into it in 20 years! It will sink in when you walk out of that last exam and you realise you are free. Then really sink in when you get your UAI and hit home when you work out what Uni you are going to and then you begin to panic - OMG what...
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    Question...

    Can I just say, that as a writer, I have those cheap A5 Woolworths spiralbound notebooks and I just write in those and staple, stick my research into those. I know where everything is and I can refer back and forth through it. It is also small enough to carry with me whereever I go so I can take...
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    Is tutoring artificial intelligence?

    It would depend on the type of tutoring as to whether it is "artificial intelligence". As one who has tutored, but also resisted getting their own children tutored... It was once said to me that I should get my gifted son tutored so he could get into a selective school. He was already gifted...
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    NSW Writers Centre - WORKSHOPS

    Hi All, I thought you might be interested in some Writers workshops for school students at the NSW Writers Centre. It may get you new Ext 2 Students off to a start. Enjoy. 2009 HSC Extension English Teachers & Students ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Do you have a friend teaching HSC...
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    could i teach myself 4unit from the textbook?

    Since most of Ext 2 Maths is work you need to do yourself and most of it is about the process and not the theory, if you know the theory then no one can teach you the thinking process. Learning on your own may be take a lot more time from your other subjects, however, so I would be careful. It...
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    Advice needed teacher has lost one of my trial essays

    Oh BOY! OK, first thing, if the teacher says he las lost it, did he say this with witnesses? Were there others around who heard him say that or that he would look harder for it? Also, who collected the exams when you did the trials? Were the papers handed in as a big bunch of paper or...
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    Teacher discouraging me to do poetry!?

    Do what you have a passion for. To get feedback, join a poets' group (contact NSW Writer's Centre) . You will find it more fulfilling and it's not about the marks, it's about what YOU want to do. I was discouraged to do a certain level of English in High School, I thumbed my nose at the...
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    Self-learning or tutoring?

    Actually, I was reflecting on this again tonight. Another thing that can really help you learn is to tutor others! I know I did really well in Maths (apart from the fact I loved it) because I tutored practically the entire second Ext 1 (3 Unit class) in the common room because their teacher...
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    Study Camps.

    Anyone going to 2B Spring Conference at Waterslea? It's a great time to: 1. Study (6 hours a day, in shorter blocks) 2. Meet people 3. Chill out! 4. Get some good tutoring if you're having problems Anyway, if you go, see you there :D I'm tutoring!
  14. alcalder

    German in Year 12

    Meh! Scaling, schmaling. If you love it, it doesn't matter. For me, it was the 2 units I knew wouldn't count and I did it because I wanted to do it - not for the marks.
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    German Help.

    In both cases "von" and "in" (in this case) take Dative. When Dative nouns have adjectives and such before them, these take the ending "en". Somewhere in the stickies I have posted a German Grammar sheet as an attachment http://community.boredofstudies.org/showpost.php?p=2989307&postcount=2...
  16. alcalder

    Question on Christian Environmental Ethics

    Christianity is the entire Bible, not just the NT. God created this world, he told man to look after it and then everythng flowed from there. You MUST mention OT and NT. It wouldn't be Christianity otherwise.
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    German in Year 12

    Getting good marks in German is about being able to speak it and write it, listen and understand. So grammar and everything comes into it. BUT there is also having the passion for the language, the want to use it, actually using it and having fun with that. If you don't enjoy it, don't do it...
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    Which Medium Scores Better With Markers

    The medium you will do the best in, is the one you have the most passion for. Do that one and no other.
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    Whats a UAI? Whats MY UAI?

    I'd say enjoy yourself in this last year of school. It is never going to be the same again. Do YOUR best, not the best of others. Aim for what you want. Set goals. Try and achieve them. BUT always remember, even if you don't get the magic UAI you need to get into the course you want now, there...
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    Conventions Of Speculative Fiction

    I write speculative fiction and I have no idea. In Frank Herbert/Brian Herbert/Kevin J Anderson's latest book, "Road to Dune" Bill Ransom says in the foreword that Frank Herbert believed that "science fiction was the only genre whose subject matter attempted to define what it is to be human"...
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