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    What technique is this?

    Struggling with the techniques for these two quotes, can someone plz help? 1. “They believed, in short, that they held in their steady hands the candle that would light the world” 2. “So their self-denial, their purposefulness, their suspicion of all vain pursuits, their hard-handed...
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    General Maths Marathon 2014

    Thought we could start a marathon for GM! Answer a question then post another one, preferably questions that are very hard OR easy to make silly mistakes with. I'll kick this off with a wordy question I stumbled on: The earth has a radius of approximately 6400km. -use the formula...
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    How to make English notes?

    Currently I'm thinking that for each text I will do: -background/context as well as purpose and form/medium -relation to unit e.g. people, power and politics would be the political views in the text etc. -themes/ideas based each aspect of the syllabus and quotes as well as their techniques...
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    How to make English notes to analyse a text?

    So now comes the point where I have found a bit of motivation and I am about to get serious with English. Any advice for making notes? Currently I'm thinking that for each text I will do: background/context as well as purpose and form/medium relation to unit e.g. people, power and politics...
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    swagmeister's HSC journey

    Thought I might start one of these, been reflecting offline but this hopefully means I can get some more support. I go to a rank 200ish school. My subjects are: English Advanced (goal 85+) - 17/45 and 70% in prelim, working on it haha mainly trying to find the motivation [emoji26] General...
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    China case study bad idea for state rank?

    Hi guys, I have to do China as my case study for the first assessment this year, but was thinking particular to avoid it as I am aiming for a state rank and want to differentiate myself. It sounds like others agree including mreditor16 who state ranked and said in his guide: "Also, please...
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    dropping to 10 units to bring up english?

    I know it's another 10 or 12 unit post but I haven't found any people in a similar situation to me, any help would be heaps appreciated. Aiming for an ATAR of 90. School rank: 200 Subjects in prelim: Adv English (rank 18/45, average 70%) General Maths (rank 1/60, average 95%)...
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    dropping to 10 units to bring up english?

    I know it's another 10 or 12 unit post but I haven't found any people in a similar situation to me, any help would be heaps appreciated. Aiming for an ATAR of 90. School rank: 200 Subjects in prelim: Adv English (rank 18/45, average 70%) General Maths (rank 1/60, average 95%)...
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    Word that covers goods and services?

    Does anyone have a word that I can use instead of 'goods and services'? My textbook uses product, but that doesn't sound correct... Thinking of 'outputs of the production process' but that is even longer :( Thanks!
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    What's up with 'contemporary business issues'?

    So I get that we have to know case studies for business, but I am a bit confused on what I have to known about contemporary issues - for example looking at the syllabus for operations: examine contemporary business issues to... ...discuss the balance between cost and quality in operations...
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    ATAR Estimate Please :)

    School rank: 198 Subject ranks: IPT: 1/12 (Average 95%) Software: 1/24 (Average 90%) General Maths: 1/78 (Average 96%) Economics: 1/23 (Average 93%) Business Studies: 1/34 (Average 94%) Advanced English: 18/45 (Average 71%)
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    How many resources for notes?

    Hey guys, first of all lets get keen for the HSC next year :headbang: How many resources should you be using at once to make your notes? I saw some tips from this guy who got 99.95 on the Matrix education blog and he said you should always have 5 resources in front of you that you read...
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    Which option topic?

    I am a 2015er so just starting HSC work now and wondering what option topic people recommend. Evolution of Programming Languages OR Software Developer's View of Hardware Any thoughts would be much appreciated :)
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    Discovery: it begins!

    Yes the 2014 HSC is about to kick off but for those of us who are 2015ers, Discovery is about to begin. Does anybody have any useful resources, any thoughts, any related texts ideas, even any puns? I'll kick this off with a set of generic quotes on discovery for use in essays or to give you...
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