Check out this post by EarthSci about halfway down- talks specifically about revised cutoffs.
http://community.boredofstudies.org/114/university-sydney/358388/usyd-dux-future-leaders-scheme.html
Edit: Realised you commented on this post back in December but it seems there is little more...
Thanks for the advice. Do you think it is necessary to cite grammatical and syntactic structure etc as evidence for persuasiveness or is that going a little overboard? Pretty much is all the analysis surface based or can form and structure of the question being used?
So the LAT is tomorrow and whilst I'm not actively preparing for it I still have a few questions for those that did well last year. What sort of structure did you employ in your responses as it seems pretty open? Should the responses be sophisticated or logical or just a combination of both...