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It's not impossible to get Band 6 in Standard. around 60 students get Band 6 in English Standard so how is that "impossible to get"? You just have to work hard!

Also, 90+ ATAR is definitely...

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For Story of Tom Brennan, I used Freedom Writers movie and Big World by Tim Winton short story.
$5 each essay. Okay, will email you :D
and sorry for the late reply.. I had uni exams :(

low 90s

I got 93 in English Standard - State rank in 2010. pm me if you're interested

dont procrastinate
follow the syllabus
read to understand not to memorise
etc
basically use common sense :P

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^In 2010, an English Standard mark of 92 didn't get a state rank so I guess it also depends on the candidature in the certain year

I did Distinctively visual for Standard English too

I did war poems. tbh, it doesn't really matter what supp texts you choose as long as they have a distinctively visual focus.
Your thesis in...

Thanks :D btw, congrats again for doing so well in Ancient!

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haha thanks! I didn't think 93 would get state rank either but Standard English does align poorly..



For 3u + 4u, do as many past papers as you can get your hands on :D Other than that, do...

Howdy BOS'ers!

I graduated from a school in the top 50 in 2010 and I will be selling my English (Standard), Ancient History, Economics and SOR1 notes and essays. My final ATAR was 99.80 which...

okay, I do law at UNSW

USYD takes the traditional approach to teaching where they chuck all 300+ students in a lecture room. UNSW is more interactive. Class sizes are around 40 where you get to...

I assume your first Industrial Technology assessment task was weighted like 10%? First assessment tasks aren't weighted a lot. Thus, don't sweat if you didn't do well in your first assessment task....

yeh, do 2 related texts. From immigrant chronicle, study all 7 poems but select the 2 that you like the most.

as for other related texts, I did Freedom Writers movie and Short Story Big World by...

I did Standard English and I hated English in Year 12. I'm doing Law at UNSW now and I'm getting Distinctions.

There is a lot of reading and writing involved in Law but HSC English is not a good...

apparently it's good for finding a job but the workload is heavy and its expensive

it depends on the person. mx2 is overrated. if it were up to me, the hardest subject would be one of the Englishes.

Dux College is also doing this

lol I wrote in this thread a year ago on Page 1 "I'm aiming for Band 6"
I ended up getting state rank.

so guys, it is definitely possible! Good luck!

yeh I did this too lol

time sure flies. i remember graduating a while ago and now you guys are graduating!

I had a look at some of them when I did HSC Standard English. They were quite useful. They show what is expected of a high quality essay. I do have a feeling though they are High band 5 essays and...

I really dislike the writing paper. The lines are so thick, forcing you to write big and slow.