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Haha I handed in a 500 word draft and I have the proper one due soon. I tried writing it properly during the holidays and am stuck with 500 words of comparatively higher quality. Oops, finish it later..

My teacher stressed that everything should go into your journal. EVERYTHING. So I've quite literally written and glued everything into my journal. My teacher seems to think we should end up with a stack of exercise books for our journal(s) [plural not because I'm referring to more than one...

How can esl kick you out? =/ If they think you shouldn't be eligible for english *as a second language*, then doesn't it contradict them putting you in Chinese background? Work hard on Ext 2 maths! :) Around 80 is pretty good in ext 2 maths right? :hmm:

I was born in Australia but my parents and family are Chinese. I'm an ABC ^^

Uh.. I don't think you can change from background to cont later =/ Try asking your head language teacher maybe? I don't know but at my school, in Year 11 they just considered as Chinese continuers and told us if we were background or continuers in Year 12...

We already have a thread about economic textbooks but what about workbooks? Do you think they're worthwhile and which ones would you recommend? My class uses the Leading Edge one which is pretty good, although a bit simple at times. It's good for some basic practise after reading each...

Oh sorry, I didn't realise that this was an old post at the time but the information is still relevant to other people, no? I double checked after you said that, and yes, you're right the top mark wasn't scaled down that much. Sorry, I misread the report. But the mean mark of 40.2 was scaled...

I'm an ABC. I can speak a little Shanghainese, Mandarin and Cantonese to varying degrees of fluency. I think I have an accent too =/

Looking at statistics published by the UAC, it seems that regardless of how well you do in Chinese background, you still end being scaled down a lot.

Hmm I don't know if notes are so useful. I tried making notes in Year 11 but I felt like I was copying out the entire textbook at times because the explanations were already quite succint. A lot of my classmates make notes though, although I'm not really sure how they make or use them.

Lol childhood obesity in maths? =/ Haha, what was the exam content like?

Can anyone tell me what the weather's like in Canberra? Sydney's weather is already a bit dodgey, winter one day and summer heatwave the next and it's a coastal city with sea breezes to stabilise the temperature! How does Canberra differ? All I've heard is that it can get pretty cold.

I've read the first of the graphic novels but I really want to see the film version. None of the stores I've been to seem to stock it though!

I think it's better to do some of your own study and analysis of the text so you've got an opinion formed before you read a study guide. You can then use the study guide to create a better more informed position, to think about things from a different perspective, etc. Looking at a study guide...

Yeah.. in class we've talked and stuff but I still feel like we're going over one lesson's worth of work over and over =/ But most students say my teacher's a good one so I think I'll trust that she's taking us somewhere =]

Yes, seriously, don't do Twilight as your related text. It's hard to take a student seriously when they're using something from pop culture that has not proved any literary worth as their related text. And what are you going to say for techniques? Metaphors? "And then I realised that Jacob...

I have an awesome teacher. In her class, I understand the topic much better, I find it interesting and am more motivated to learn. I think that is pretty important to an English class. My marks have improved a lot in her class. Conversely, I've also had some of the worst English teachers...

Haha that's awesome =D Once I was talking to a guy about getting a new internet provider and I used the terms "ISP" and "plugin" and he seemed very surprised that a girl knew those terms. I was surprised that he was surprised =/

Aren't Emily Dickinson's poems one of the core texts? Um, I'm not sure but I don't think we're allowed to use a core text [even if you're not doing it] as a related text.

A lot of you guys don't seem to like our core texts. My class is doing the Crucible and I'm rather enjoying it =D We saw a live performance of the play before beginning to study the play. It was great to see it acted out, and feel the intensity and frustration of the play. I think it got...