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The only important thing about your internal assessment is your rank. Your actual mark counts for nothing in the HSC mark calculation. If everybody had the same conditions and all did poorly and so you ranked all right you should be okay. How'd you rank?

For biology, I found watching videos, making my own notes, drawing up diagrams and teaching myself in the mirror really helped. With Italian, I found some websites were you could communicate with people who speak the language you're trying to learn who are trying to learn English. It was...

Sure! I studied in different ways for particular subjects. For example, I did ancient history, and there were a lot of quotes by historians involved. I'm quite creative so I found a good way to remember the quotes was to draw the historian and stick the quote they said in a speech bubble beside...

Then sit down, turn off all distractions, facebook, etc. and tell yourself that you will study for only 10 minutes. It's so much easier to get started and once you're going you can keep going. Facebook and other sites were a HUGE distraction for me, so I made myself a new computer log in on...

Our teachers said 15 hours a week absolute minimum. Scared everybody off and very few people studied throughout the year. I may have been a more consistent studier if we'd been told 5 hours :( Anyway, studying tips. Sit yourself down in front of a mirror, read your notes out loud to yourself...

Definitely possible if you got the marks for content

I think you could lose 1 or 2 marks. At my school you could have probably lost 5 marks max for presentation, (that included a mark for going over or under time, rapport, etc. Hardly anybody ever lost all 5. I used to sometimes lose just one mark for speaking too quickly). The content was always...

You were right for a while but then you mixed up the aligning of the HSC marks and the scaling by UAC to get the ATAR. Your aligned mark will not be influenced by other subjects like that. Aligning is individual to every subject because they need to set people into the bands that they achieved...

I did Italian Beginners through OHS and I actually found it really effective. They give you listening tracks so you're practicing your listening every week. I also found practice for the oral was great cause I called my teacher at least once a week and had a one-on-one conversation with her. She...

Ditto with bio :( And I was first all year until a stupid assessment task set AFTER the trials. :(

Okay, THIS makes sense. That's why I was confused, because I read on the BOS and UAC sites that BOS gives UAC your raw marks and then they scale them. If the scaled marks turn out similarly to aligned marks I can understand it now. Thanks!

I don't know, sorry. I'm not sure whether the work begins on the new syllabus in 2013 or if it's implemented then, but I don't THINK that it will be implemented. They're not just overhauling English either, but all the subjects. I know they're aiming for a standardised national curriculum at...

I thought that BOS gives UAC the raw marks and then they scale them, so the scaled marks are different to the aligned marks.

English Extension 2 Ancient History Biology Studies of Religion 1 Italian Beginners Doubt it!

Okay, so the calculator works off aligned marks but the actual ATAR calculation is from raw marks?

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As in do you submit your raw marks or your aligned HSC marks?

Unless you have someone else to give them to or something. But they won't be of any use to your brother.

They won't. The syllabus is being overhauled in 2013 anyway.