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tbh my studying wasn't very structured at all. i did almost all essay subjects and for those the main thing was scaffold and practice essays, rinse and repeat. make sure you have a solid idea of what you would write for each possible question or topic. i didn't really have a set study schedule...

this document contains one paragraph for each individual poem for eliot, and an additional synthesis paragraph per poem comparing it with journey of the magi. got full marks for the internal mod B assessment and 94 external in adv, hopefully these can be of use!

full set of crime notes for legal. received 97 external, and got full marks in multiple choice + crime essay in trial exam. alongside using the notes i'd recommend creating scaffolds for each issue you want to talk about in your essays - feel free to pm me if you'd like any sample essays etc.!

feel free to use this as a starting point for your own critiques. pm me if you'd like a copy of my lit review (19/20) or my major work and/or reflection (47/50 external, 1st internal)!

anyone else unable to download their hsc credentials off students online yet? there's no button to generate the pdf for me

anyone else get an email from usyd about the info day that included a ticket to visit the scholars' lounge?

i got a bit lower than uac's atar calculator but still above 99 so made it in the end!!! super happy

eng adv 95 ext 1 48 ext 2 48 legal 97 french beg. 100 polish 97 bro that's so much better than i thought especially for ext 1 holy omg

ours didn't bother LMAO we have a thing in jan/feb though

yeah same i'm not as anxious as i thought i'd be but i'm definitely interested to see my results. scared asf for polish especially bc the scaling is so variable

literally went down as i was about to give into temptation and check mine. seething

I think you're right in saying that 'something only has meaning when you give it meaning'. But that line of argument, which you use to disparage arts, can equally be used to disparage STEM subjects, capitalistic systems, etc. Without societies having created these sorts of systems that...

i came out of the exam kinda panicking cause i didn't get near the end of the booklet, our head of english was like 'as long as you got to around 7 pages you'll be fine" so that was a relief

25 marks felt like way too much and i don't think i properly adhered to the stimulus :,) but the electives question was actually pretty nice, at least for homelands

yeah same our school made us do two relateds for our assessment so i have vague knowledge of another, but i would not be able to confidently recall much of my paragraph lmao

here again to say i might actually implode if they ask for two relateds, i should not have left memorising my essay skeleton this late

if it helps i wrote three paras for crime and the options and did really well in trials - i think it's less about quantity and more about quality/how well you answer the question :)

just had a thought regarding crime - one of my biggest fears before trials was that my school would ask a question specifically on juries lmao, do you think something like that is possible? they've asked about super specific issues before (like post-sentencing considerations and transnational...

cannot express more strongly how much i don't want this to be true

at our school we've been using quotes from literary theorists, but it's not essential and if you forget the quotes you can just use the theory itself in your argument and it should be fine. they've been telling us heaps that lit theory should only come at the end of your paragraphs and not form...