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Thanks for the support, Duskheaven. I really wanted to give the automatic marking away for free. It would help a lot of students. It's just really hard to fund it especially if people abuse it. However, you've given me a lot to think about. Thanks Duskheaven.

Hey guys, There was a malicious attack on my website. There've been 1262 short answers marked since this morning and not nearly that many page visits. My website's been marking 4 short answers every minute for what must be many hours. The person responsible was probably trying to waste a lot...

Thanks for the feedback.

Glad you like it! Depending on how this goes, I'll definitely look into it.

Great foresight! This is actually something I experimented with. I created a feedback loop that ended up creating the perfect English essay.

I'll definitely look into it.

Good question. I tested the first version of the marker on 19 short answer responses marked in past HSCs, across all bands, and from different subjects. I marked each short answer 5 times, and took the median mark. If that median mark was in the correct performance band range - the same...

Holy cow! I didn't expect it to be so popular. The English Standard short answer marker has been used 23 times in the last five minutes alone. Don't forget to let me know what you guys think :)

Hey guys, I made a website that marks your short answers for you, and I tested it on real, marked HSC papers (the first version predicted the HSC marker's assigned marking band with 73% median accuracy). If you want to use it, check out: https://hscpal.com.au/shortanswer Right now it supports...

Sure. I can't give out all the details, but I'm starting a business to hopefully help teach HSC students how to do better in HSC exams. Having these papers on hand could hopefully help me do that.

If you've finished a HSC subject and received your exam back from NESA, I might be interested in buying it. I'm willing to consider any exams you might have. If you're interested, send me a DM.

The syllabus specifies we need to "calculate and interpret Pearson's correlation coefficient" but the formula itself is not written in the syllabus or the data sheet. So do we have to memorise the formula? Or do any questions that involve this formula just provide it for you?

Implicit differentiation questions have explicitly appeared in some hsc past papers. Are they assessable for our hsc year?

In a reflection you're supposed to make comparisons between your MOD C texts and how they inspired you. How are you meant to link a discursive and compare it to MOD C's poems and short stories? They seem way too different for any stylistic features or similar symbols to pop up.

Wouldn't advise this method. In my junior years (didn't count for anything and was before HSC) I didn't outright get tutors to write my essays but they helped a lot. This was a terrible strategy. I learnt almost nothing on how to write essays or answer comprehension questions. This last year has...

I've tried searching for past forums about this and checked websites and can't find any opinions. Long story short, how many minutes would you guys spend on each section of the English advanced paper 1 and paper 2 exams?

I agree wholeheartedly with you on the fact that practicing at one type of problem will reduce the time taken to solve similar problems (as you've said from 3 hours to seconds) as you learn what special strategies work best and refine technique. All I was explaining was that to the speed at...

Responding to your point about IQ, unfortunately IQ itself can't be increased. While practice at one problem improves performance in solving that same problem or similar problems (giving the illusion of a higher IQ), in actuality these exercises have 0 impact on the speed of problem solving when...

They won't penalise you as long as you write within the page borders. However, if you consistently write more than what questions recommend it might be hurting you more than helping. It could mean you're not writing concisely meaning you put in more effort for the same amount of marks while...

Cambridge exercises are designed to build up from incredibly easy questions to questions that are unnecessarily difficult. I'd say cambridge questions are great for building up answering techniques but the last questions in the chapters (extension questions) are usually just not even worth...