2009 Earth Science Students

[ConquerDiscover]

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just though i'd post sum tips/ advice for people in year 12 doing the subject.

I think its nearly the half yearlys?

well, i dunno about other skools, but the half yearlys is pretty easy.

since its only the half yearlys, just revise the topics that you've covered so far.

if you've written up notes, go through those, or if not, just go through the textbook. study guides are pretty helpful for revision too.

also remember that they will only test you on what is written on the syllabus, so it would be good to just check that out as well.

with the actual exam, read the questions carefully.

multiple choice is pretty much straight to the point,

with the short response questions, try and answer it as succinct as possible and get to the point.

i think for the half yearlys in earth, most of the questions will just be short response which are worth like 3 or 4 marks each. there might be 1 or 2 long response questions,

you will get the marks for logical, detailed responses that makes sense and answers the question.

also look at how many marks is given for a question, u dont wanna spend too long answering a 2 mark question.

and get a good rest before the exam

thats all i can think of atm,

good luck guys

[Sprattboy]

Thanks

[amyianson]

Hey there
I was wondering if anyone could refer me to a tutor for HSC EES?
I am on the Central Coast of NSW.
Kind Regards

Amy I'Anson

[ali xD]

Heyyyyyyy
Wow first post!
I do EES. We have a pretty small class & its awesome!
We have always run it at our school, & the classes are always small. Donno why. I heard that it didnt scale that well, which would seem right since its not as acedemically rigorous as say physics (which i dropped-even tho i was topping lol)

Anywho, just wondering how ppl are finding the course, like easy or hard, what options you are doing etc.
=]

[ConquerDiscover]

Originally Posted by ali xD

Heyyyyyyy
Wow first post!
I do EES. We have a pretty small class & its awesome!
We have always run it at our school, & the classes are always small. Donno why. I heard that it didnt scale that well, which would seem right since its not as acedemically rigorous as say physics (which i dropped-even tho i was topping lol)

Anywho, just wondering how ppl are finding the course, like easy or hard, what options you are doing etc.
=]

hey Ali, glad to hear you're liking the subject.

Yeah my school always ran EES too and the classes have always been small. I think its because most people are not into Earth-science stuffs lol.

And the people who say it doesn't scale well are wrong. I think that with Earth as well as with any other subject, it would only scale down if the mark is less than 70.

But I know that earth scales well because I got a Band 6 in it last year in the HSC and when I used SAM, it showed that getting band 6 in earth contributed the most in my UAI calculation so yeah.

I think getting 80+ in Earth and in most subjects would tend to scale fairly well, getting 85+ would definately scale up high.

Well if u have any other questions, just post it in the earth forums

Good Luck!

Cheers

[Sprattboy]

Originally Posted by ali xD

Heyyyyyyy
Wow first post!
I do EES. We have a pretty small class & its awesome!
We have always run it at our school, & the classes are always small. Donno why. I heard that it didnt scale that well, which would seem right since its not as acedemically rigorous as say physics (which i dropped-even tho i was topping lol)

Anywho, just wondering how ppl are finding the course, like easy or hard, what options you are doing etc.
=]

Our class is fairly big, and yeah the word isn't really that hard. I'm also doing Biology and some of he topics overlap a little bit, which makes it even easier.

[carribee13]

hey i do ees too
only 5 ppl in my school
but ummm im in yr 9...
and its a pretty good subject cept the teachers a bit... vague
hey do u know how this scales?

[Sprattboy]

About the same as Biology i am told.