Pros: Competitiveness, if you hate being beaten, you end up striving to imrpove yourself; easy to get help, someone i bound to understand concepts; smart friends encouraging studyig; you will know how smart the 99 ATAR kids are and how you compare to them (99 atar kids occur every year at most...
All you need to do is pass. High STAT scores don't count for anything for Pharmacy at Usyd. You have as much of a chance as someone who say got 180 in STAT.
Get a private tutor or a past HSC student(that got a high band5/band6) to guide you through what you're doing wrong.
It sounds as if you don't know how to write an essay moreso than not being good at english. You have to express your ideas in your essay.
still possible, but you have to study really really hard.
its not your marks that count so much but your ranks matter more.
you only have another 5 months then you're done. mind as well go hard out.
I don't think it would work out.
I believe that most people will already know the content by the time of the HSC.
It is more to do with how you answer the question and how you can word it so that the marker knows what you are trying to communicate.
Plus, in short, the notes on BOS don't allow...
Girls are allowed to have ear piercings. I don't think he approves of it anywhere else on the body. It is pretty 'radical' to have it somewhere else. Just make sure he doesn't see it then. =p
Here are my overall ranks at the moment.
English Advanced - 33/124
Mathematics Ext1 - 25/94
Mathematics Ext2 - 20/35
Ancient History - 5/24
Chemistry - 27/80
School ranks around the mid20s each year.
Thank you.
Whenever i write,
i like to try pick something random, usually an object and use it as the central symbol of my story. My story somehow comes together by expanding on that symbol.
Ranks and your school rank matter the most.
Each school sets their assessments different. Some schools who find their overall cohort is weak, may set easier tests, hence the good students will get 80% + . Some schools, and most selective schools, set harder tests, to create a larger spread...
Wait. Don't give into early pressures. I took the whole of Year 11 to really understand how to do essays well and everything and that was just in time for Year12.
Don't take early assessments as a true indicator of how well you will go in the rest of the year. After three - four assessments...