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Don't you hate people who say they got bad results and then continue to hold up their head and say they could've got better or beaten you if they studied? It's not about if you could've done something, it's about what you have done.

My teacher said that playing grade sports or showing that you have other committments other that academic during your final year shows, in addition to a high UAI will demonstrate that you are more able to use time efficiently. He said that this quality will increase your chances of gaining...

And has anyone started getting together a portfolio for University admission? I wonder how you can put sports in there...

Depends what you read...if you just read novels i dont see how that helps you mathematics. And then theres the reading branches - do you read for fun or do you read books that your teacher suggest you read? By that i mean do you read Tom Clancy and David Gammel or do you read Jules Vern?

Writing hand notes is probably better for remembering contexts. But there are several disadvantages, such as if you have really bad writing, you can barely read the notes. Also when your writing notes you tend to be really lazy and try to cut down things to a minimum and wont be bothered...

I was wondering what everyone else is carrying in terms of committments other than doing well at school. I play grade sports for my school, Rugby Union for Winter and Basketball for Summer. This takes up about 6 hours of training on weekdays and just about the whole of saturday (helping out the...

My motivation is that i am horrified of being mediocore at something, and being lost in the dense of the 'dark masses'. I believe this is quite common amongst asian students and asian families.

The part that worries me is that your chemistry teacher does not know to work out the oxidation state.

Really what you should be doing is as the first poster said, summarising class notes before you go to sleep, briefly everyday or even on the weekends. I heard from a teacher that is was unwise to cram for subjects in senior years, because you get tested on the same stuff again and again and...

I am currently doing HSC modern history in year 11. We are currently studying Russia, particularly on the period of the russian revolution, and the civili war, now moving onto the new economic policy. I wanted to buy some books of different historians to get some different perspectives on the...