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    Medical Physics

    What textbooks do you recommend as use for this option topic ? I got excel and physics in context. i feel that isn't enough for some reason. Jacaranda doens't have it and i don't think surfing hasn't made a medical physics one. ( wish they did )
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    does adv. count if doing ext.2 ?

    with the situation of 4 units maths where the 2 unit won't count for them is this the same for 2U advanced english ?
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    What option topic did you pick ?

    What option topic did you pick and why ? im deciding between Industrial Chemistry and Shipwrecks. Got no idea what i want to do. Ideas ? Suggestions ? Reasons ?
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    The HSC exam.

    From what i hear is that the majority of SDD exams are based on algorithms. Hearing from peoples respones in the 2002 one however i checked the past paper and saw a 5 mark question to write an algorithm and 1 question to identify stuff in an algorithm they provided. But that isn't that...
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    Explanation of HSC Marks (Moderating)

    Explanation of HSC Marks (NB: We've developed a prototype which simulates the moderation of assessment marks - www.boredofstudies.org/moderate.php) Explanatory document from the Board of Studies: http://users.on.net/unix/HSCmarks.pdf This answers a LOT of questions to do with moderation...
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    orbit question

    What maintains a space station in orbit around the earth ? i know gravitation field is one but what is the other ? i was thinking centripetal force ?
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    Learning Algorithms

    Anyone know a good book/site to learn just plain algorithms ? im really struggling with this especially from a very bad exam mark
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    Smaller Classes

    Seeing as ranking seems to be more important in determination of the moderated marks, would having a smaller class of like 8-12 be of any advantage ? assuming you are doing pretty bad in a subject that has a small class
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    Effect of school towards your UAI

    how large is the effect of different schools towards UAI ? like say you get the same HSC mark as another person, but that other person goes to a selective school while the other a public school that doesn't go too well. How large of a margin is it ? in terms of UAI points. 5 ? 10!! ?
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    Dropping extension

    well right now im doing 3u extension maths and i don't think i will do fairly well. i do 11 units and dropping it will make it 10 however as i see it, if i still continue to do 3u but don't care about it. like if i stuff it up it just wont count. is there any bad side to this ...
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    What was in your halfyearly ?

    Well i got my SDD exam tomorrow and our stupid teacher didn't give us any past papers and i got no clue of the types of questions he will ask we have to learn only the first 4 chapters of the sam davis book and only the intro of chapter 5 what type of questions did u guys get ?
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    quotes on changing self

    anyone got some interesting ones i can use in my upcoming essay ?
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    pop ups

    well i don't really mind the popups but the one that keeps asking me to make my homepage this is quite annoying :( any chance of getting rid of that ? :)
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    what is given during exam

    During chemistry exam what are given ? Periodic table and anything else ? because i seem to have trouble determining where a substance is a strong acid/base or weak acid/base. Is there any easy way to tell without just remembering off by hard ? And same goes for valencies of certain...
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    little helpon acids

    acid + base --> salt + water say u got NH3 + H2SO4 --> (NH4)2SO4 the numbers are little ones. how do u get that equation ? the (NH4)2SO4 bit ?
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    Getting into UNI

    say for UNSW the requirements for a certain course is 85 UAI if say i got 86 would that guarantee me in it ? if not what factors make it not true ?
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    UAI Seeker that accurate ?

    Well currently i am doing these subjects 3U maths 2U maths Physics Chemistry Advanced English Software Design and Development I input the details of my percentile prediction and my UAI just seems a little too good to be true ? i got English Adv - 80 Chemistry - 80 Physics -...
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