Re: New english syllabus for 2009 hsc??
the good thing for me is that in English Extension unlike other schools who are doing utopia we did the OUTSIDER - which means ill have essays and texts which i can contrast with
Re: Preliminary HSC Yearly Exams
Yeah!
I just finished my exams today
I had:
Monday: English Advanced
Thursday: English Extension and Economics
Friday: Chemistry
Monday: 2 UNit Maths
Tuesday: German Continuers
Wednesday: Maths Extension
I think i did alright...
Hey im about to finish year 11 German - and i was wondering if someone could give me an insight into the difficulty of the course, whether it is better than the prelim.
I havent enjoyed german at all this year
At my school there is only like 6 of us doing german and there is no real...
Re: Folders or Books?
I use one big folder for Economics, English advanced and extension, Maths and German, using dividers between each subject of course.
Then when i have finished that particular topic in class i will shift all my work related to that into a specific subject folder. So...
Maths is all abou understanding the concept and being able to apply this knowledge to various questions of varying dificulties. Therfore if you are finding the Ext1 course relatively easy that means that you are understanding the concepts just that u havent been able to apply them - whihc means...
Yeah i feel that school marks are generally not important ather the ranks, in that if u place urself in the top ranks of your school it helps immensely. For example if i came third in my school for Chemistry, but in the final HSC i came 20th out of the people in my school who sat the test - then...
For me the most intellectually stimulating is probably Economics - concepts are unique and original
The most intellectually challenging is Mathematics Extension 1 - just really hard
The most interesting is definetely Chemistry - the ideas are related to the basics of thing around us
The most...
people at my school were wanting to find a program that could predict their UAI - word spread around about SAM - so i just had a look around the site - then here i am today
My School is ranked 76th which is where it usually has been except for 2005 when it was ranked 54!!! - which is great
The previous Duxes have gotten
2007 - 99.90 : This guy topped the state in SDD
2006 - 99.75
2005 - 99.95: This guy came second in Ext 2 English
2004 - 99.90
We usually have 4-5...
Im not sure how many people get around 99+ but if say 65000 people sit the HSC then it is probably somewhere close to 650 people. I think last year there were about 66,000 students sittin the HSC
So its pretty hard - u hav to be in the top 650