Dan2008
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Apparently the Sydney Morning Herald already knows whats in this years exams ... (umm very looks familiar to an article published before the HSC last year ... )
HSC on a roll for Lithuanian continuers
THEY say the HSC is not the most important thing in life. But for those battling through the trauma, we have this short primer on some of the tougher subjects.
English The collected works of Shakespeare can be summarised as follows. Parents who call their children "Gonerill" usually end up regretting the decision. Prospero was a silly old bloke. Hamlet should have padded up before his duel. If Bottom was performing today, he'd struggle to land a gig at the local RSL.
Economics The point of the current account is to be in deficit. Real GDP should be contrasted with nominal GDP, because Ken Henry said so. Australia's terms of trade give us the ratio of putrid milk products received for every cow we export to China. Trade will be mutually beneficial between the two countries when Australia's opportunity cost of producing cows, expressed as the ratio between the number of units of cloth England makes and the price of the average Portuguese vigneron, is greater than one, or two, or something. The consumer price index is a Laspeyres index; the GDP price deflator is a Paasche index. In today's language, we would say that both are "a bit of a pain in the bum to calculate". As for the rest, Adam Smith was right. Unless he was wrong, in which case Jeremy Bentham was right. If in doubt, ask for a bail-out. Everyone else seems to. By the end of the exam, everything should have been nationalised - students included.
PDHPE The focus of this year's syllabus is on forward and backward rolls. In the first part of your exam, you will have to execute a series of rolls. In the second part, you will be asked to discuss the impact that a renewed classroom focus on rolls could have on state education policy. After that there will be a short break, in which you will be encouraged to do some more rolls, before the final part of the exam, in which the emphasis will, again, be on rolls. Chin-ups may also be introduced for variation, but please: don't overdo it, kids.
Modern history European history between the wars can be reduced to a series of puns on the main protagonists' names: when he was kicking back by the side of Lake Geneva with his League of Nations chums in the mid-1920s, Gustav Stresemann was not as "stressed" as he should have been; Georges Clemenceau would have done better to show a little more "clemency" towards the Germans; Calvin Coolidge was cool; and David Lloyd-George had a surname that was singularly resistant to having any pun constructed around it. Thisexplains the decline of the British Empire.
Lithuanian continuers If you're a continuer, this implies you've already begun. Tant mieux, as they don't say in Vilnius, because there's next to no advice I can offer on this subject. As I've said on this page on so many occasions in the past, you're on your own, Lithuanian continuers.
HSC on a roll for Lithuanian continuers
THEY say the HSC is not the most important thing in life. But for those battling through the trauma, we have this short primer on some of the tougher subjects.
English The collected works of Shakespeare can be summarised as follows. Parents who call their children "Gonerill" usually end up regretting the decision. Prospero was a silly old bloke. Hamlet should have padded up before his duel. If Bottom was performing today, he'd struggle to land a gig at the local RSL.
Economics The point of the current account is to be in deficit. Real GDP should be contrasted with nominal GDP, because Ken Henry said so. Australia's terms of trade give us the ratio of putrid milk products received for every cow we export to China. Trade will be mutually beneficial between the two countries when Australia's opportunity cost of producing cows, expressed as the ratio between the number of units of cloth England makes and the price of the average Portuguese vigneron, is greater than one, or two, or something. The consumer price index is a Laspeyres index; the GDP price deflator is a Paasche index. In today's language, we would say that both are "a bit of a pain in the bum to calculate". As for the rest, Adam Smith was right. Unless he was wrong, in which case Jeremy Bentham was right. If in doubt, ask for a bail-out. Everyone else seems to. By the end of the exam, everything should have been nationalised - students included.
PDHPE The focus of this year's syllabus is on forward and backward rolls. In the first part of your exam, you will have to execute a series of rolls. In the second part, you will be asked to discuss the impact that a renewed classroom focus on rolls could have on state education policy. After that there will be a short break, in which you will be encouraged to do some more rolls, before the final part of the exam, in which the emphasis will, again, be on rolls. Chin-ups may also be introduced for variation, but please: don't overdo it, kids.
Modern history European history between the wars can be reduced to a series of puns on the main protagonists' names: when he was kicking back by the side of Lake Geneva with his League of Nations chums in the mid-1920s, Gustav Stresemann was not as "stressed" as he should have been; Georges Clemenceau would have done better to show a little more "clemency" towards the Germans; Calvin Coolidge was cool; and David Lloyd-George had a surname that was singularly resistant to having any pun constructed around it. Thisexplains the decline of the British Empire.
Lithuanian continuers If you're a continuer, this implies you've already begun. Tant mieux, as they don't say in Vilnius, because there's next to no advice I can offer on this subject. As I've said on this page on so many occasions in the past, you're on your own, Lithuanian continuers.
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