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Ok judging by everyone's reactions, tutoring is not absolutely essential and is most beneficial for students who are struggling. However, it is quite alarming how many of the top performing kids actually attend tutoring. For instance, I spoke to a former james ruse student who admitted that he...

Greetings fellow Bosers. I have a mate who is unsure on what to do atm. He is 23 and failed to enter medicine during year 12 through the undergraduate pathway (ATAR+ UMAT+ Interview) because of his low UMAT score. So he went to uni and did a med science degree at ANU in order to try out for the...

Hi everyone, a friend of mine who is currently doing the HSC is looking for people's opinions on the importance of tutoring. I have never had tutoring personally so I told him I will ask around. What does everybody think? Does it help to a sufficient degree? I mean let's face it, HSC students...

Hey, did anyone else's school ring their bells during their HSC exams? Mine did, like non-stop. It's really quite annoying cause its hard to think. The weird thing is that my school never used to ring the bell in past years, and any kids caught making noises near the exam room got instant...

Hey, has any of past umat students used this umat ease or gone to their tuition? http://umat-ease.weebly.com/ If so, what do you reckon about it, did it help you get a high umat mark? is it worth it? There are so many umat companies claiming that their material is the best for preparation, and...

what does everyone reckon about the difficulty of this exam compared to previous years? Reckon it will align well or shit this year? It seems MC tripped some people up. According to the raw mark database, 2013 bio seemed to have aligned really badly but all other years, 80% + aligned to band 6.

Hey guys, anybody out there who repeated the hsc? Could you please share your story. e.g how much did your atar increase by? How did you cope with all your friends gone? When did you go back to school? right after your hsc exams or after the Christmas holidays. Cheers! before anyone ask, I am...

do i go back like right away, e.g. my exam finishes in week 4, so would i go back week 5 or something?

Hey everyone I am aiming for an atar of 95. I was just wondering if this is possible with my marks. The following are my raw marks for the trials and overall rank: English Advanced: 90% 1st Maths 2u: 87% 1st Mathematics Extension 1: 67% 2nd Chemistry: 81% 1st Physics: 80% 1st Biology...

Hey everyone, I was just wondering how to repeat year 12. I am not definitely going to do it and I know everybody will say it's a bad idea, but how does it actually work? Like, because you don't get your ATAR until December, would you start in January, hence missing out an entire term. Also, how...

Hey guys, so if i rank first in my cohort in say physics, and i rank first in my hsc external, does that mean my internal will become the same as the external. For example, I rank first in the external with a mark of 90, does that mean my internal will be 90, therefore i would get an overall HSC...

Yeah but if she does horribly in the external, but she is given first place with a high internal, then that drags the entire class's marks down due to the moderation process.

Hey folks, just wondering if any of you have come across teachers being biased towards their students. A mate of mine does drama has been complaining to me lately about how her drama teacher is being biased, because she put another girl as equal first with her despite receiving lower assessment...

dropped it... yeah i know, a bit of a shame. But the amount of work that i ended up having to do to manage 6 units of science, 4u maths and Advanced english, and to stay competitive was too overwhelming. The girl that was in my extension 2 class devotes all her time to extension 1 & 2 maths...

Thanks, but those are just conversions from raw to hsc marks, they dont really give a good idea of the atar. I was hoping that someone who achieved an atar of 95-98 could share their HSC marks to give a general idea

Hey guys, I am currently doing my HSC and aiming for a 97 atar. My subjects are 3U Maths Advanced English Chemistry Biology Physics I am currently ranked first for all of them except extension 1 maths (behind by 0.2% apparently due to some weird assessment moderation program :vcross...

Re: How to identify if sodium carbonate and sodium phosphate is present in a solution we dont have any barium chloride, would barium nitrate suffice?

How to identify if sodium carbonate and sodium phosphate is present in a solution? Say if i had several compounds including lead nitrate, copper nitrate, barium nitrate, sodium carbonate, and sodium phosphate in different solutions. We are asked to identify which two solutions contain the sodium...

Hey guys just a really quick question, how would you convert the concentration of an element in ppm (mg/L) to mole/L (molarity)? Say if i had a concentration of 0.8 ppm. How would you convert this? Thanks! :)

Hey all. I am a school captain and SRC member at a country school with about 600 kids all up, and I really want to do medicine. Just wondering if universities even care about school captaincy? Please note I didn't become a school captain for the sake of university entry. But I would like to know...