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    Chem Help - Trends in the Periodic Table

    http://www.boredofstudies.org/courses/science/chemistry/1120212602_2003_Chemistry_Notes_*katie*.doc 3rd and 4th pages. What textbook do u use? It should be in all the prelim chem textbooks. It's in context and conquering.
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    selective school

    Yeah i've heard like most the asians get tutored for science and maths at fort st. Dunno everyone keeps saying fort st's full of druggos
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    Biology Olympiad

    Is anyone doing the bio olympiad this year? Past olympiaders got any advice on: study, textbooks, notes, weblinks etc
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    media in HSC exams

    From the Board of studies: http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/bos_stats/hsc05_mediaguide.html#nine "In the interests of students, journalists intending to contact schools to obtain television footage, photographs or student/teacher interviews during the Higher School Certificate examination...
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    chemistry olympiad??

    Hey im currently doing bio olympiad training at usyd. The chem course got cancelled lastweek(lack of numbers) http://www.science.usyd.edu.au/school/olympiad/chemistry.shtml Ring Louise you might be able to get the notes. Also: It is recommended that students purchase the textbook...
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    Nysf

    National Youth Science Forum 2007: Has anyone made it to regional interviews yet? www.nysf.edu.au
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    Changing school

    Ring Sefton high ASAP, selective exam does not count for post yr 7 entry. Only school based exam if they have one and reports etc. http://www.schools.nsw.edu.au/learning/7-12assessments/selective8_12.php
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    which school?

    Hey i changed schools in yr 10 to a selective one, i recommend that you go to a selective high school, or a really good well ranked private school if u can afford it. PM me for any advice. 2005 Complete NSW school rankings by region...
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    help--? why use potato in osmosis experiment

    Correct Survivor "It is cheap as well" Im currently doing biology olympiad at Sydney Uni, we did osmosis yesterday with live human blood. I asked my lecturer why is the potato most commonly used, the answer was "because its cheap".
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    dropping subjects

    Please list all of your current subjects and list the subjects that you are considering to drop and results + rankings if possible and why, but ultimately the decision is up to you and your teachers.
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    selective school

    Personally i think fort st is a better school, considering school rankings fort st is 19th from memory and sefton came around 27-9th, but i heard some of fort st science and maths teachers were crap and some students are druggos.
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    Mr. Waldron @ North Shore Chatswood

    His yr 11 classes are working from those stupid north shore english work booklets and most of them will prob be irrelevant to your current module(s) or AOS.
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    Stuck with the same subjects till the end, any regrets?

    Current Subjects: (stuck with for yr 12 except picking up ext history 13units!!!) Eng Adv Eng Ext 1 Modern History Chem Bio Maths Adv Maths Ext 1 Dream Subjects : Eng Adv Bio Legal Modern Ext Hist The Art of Scientific Explanation Cosmology(I wish i was accelerated:()
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    What are you currently Reading?

    'Vanity Fair' by thackery
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    majorwork structure

    http://www.htansw.asn.au/publish/publish.html I think shes refering to: SALE: "2001 HTA Extension History Prize - the essays", HTANSW, 2002
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    Mr. Waldron @ North Shore Chatswood

    Im trying to get a place with Mr Waldron im on a waiting list but they said i'll definetly get a place next year. I live an hour away near the blue mountains it takes me around an hour to get there. But i currently get tutored at the English Teaching Academy in Chatswood its by Alan Nerva it's...
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    Chemistry- Metals

    Aluminium is not mined but extracted from its ore Bauxite which is mined. http://www.australianminesatlas.gov.au/info/aimr/bauxite.jsp http://www.aluminium.org.au/Page.php?d=1007
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    Olympiads

    Past papers: http://www.aso.edu.au/www/index.cfm?itemid=31 Airie, Soulsearcher if your going to undertake the olympiad i recommend that you undertake the training program at Usyd or buy 'University Physics (11th edition, with Modern Physics) by Young and Freedman', and is available from the...
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    Mr. Waldron @ North Shore Chatswood

    Yeah, hes really good, but its hard to get a place, and he only tutors people for a maximum of 1 hour. A family friend who owns a north shore centre told me to go to Mr Waldron because her son got a UAI of 99 after only being in Australia for a few years.
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    Olympiads

    You dont need that much time to study for the olympiads since there are only a few topics in the test.
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