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Except for 2008 where the shoved a newb Year 11 into Math 1...... Me!

Thanks for the reply. What about Epping Boys'? Does anyone know the schoo zone for it?

What's so great about Fermat? 1. Euler 2. Sophie Germain 3. Nash 4. Wiles 5. Taniyama-Shimura (for coming up with the conjecture proved by Wiles) 6. Frey (transforming the Fermat equation into an elliptic curve) 7. Gauss 8. Perelman 9. Ramanujan 10. Galois

My brother is either going to Carlingford High School or Cumberland High School next year. Which one is better and why? Thanks in Advance.

Re: Olympiad letter Do you guys get training materials? When I was in NZ, after I got invited to the NZIMO Camp we got sent training materials. Just wondering.

You are not year 12 in term 4 though. You are just year 11's starting the year 12 HSC Course. Hence sport is technically still compulsory in term 4.

Re: Olympiad letter Man, if they didn't restrict the people that can get into the camp to people with Australian passports then I would have gladly sat it. I didn't sit it because I don't have a chance and since I don't have an Australian passport I am even less bothered with it.

But most of the science subjects are pretty much English based anyway (I mean, what's with the HSC Physics course).

Today, the Head of Science was asking me if I want to do the test because someone decided not to on the last minute but I said no. Doesn't sound very easy.

I am not sure what you mean but all I did was assume that all the water has condensed back into a liquid at 298K and that 0.8 atm is from the carbon dioxide so you can calculate the moles of carbon dioxide and hence the moles of water.

Go through a 4 unit text book and you can find heaps of inequalities where you can elegantly solve (AM-GM, Cauchy, Rearrangement) or else bash (Expand everything out, Majorisation).

When actually making up a buffer solution however, we add the acid and the acid's salt (which generates the desired conjugate base) or the base with its conjugate.

Ah yes, very nice. Can easily be proved using Complex Numbers (try it).

Oh well, Projective Geometry is not so popular among Australians (I mean it's not like Euclidean Plane or Solid Geometry).

Hope you don't mind me saying but Question 4 is just so pathetic I can't believe it. It's like last year's question 1. Plus I am shocked that Iurie Boreico only got a silver (now his rank is third in the world after Reid and Christian I think). Question 3 is just....... SCARY!