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    USyd rejecting deferments?

    Has anyone heard of someone who's application for deferment wasn't accepted? I'm trying to come up with a reasonable and understandable reason to write on the form, and I'm wondering how big the chances are that they'll refuse it
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    Can anyone explain this to me?

    Can someone please explain this one scenario to me before I go mad trying to work it out? For Textiles&Design, my marks go something like this Exam Mark - 82 Assessment Mark - 88 HSC Mark - 85 Now I know the HSC Mark is just the average... but I'm wondering where the other two came from...
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    Worst Things the Supervisors Have Said

    Our supervisors are all pretty nice... despite being slow with the books... and learning our names... that's just creepy. But they were handing out our exam papers for Textiles yesterday, when they told us that they were debating on the answer for the first multiple choice question, and...
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    Maths + Textiles

    OK, so I'm stressing at the moment cause they put Textiles right in the middle of my 4U and 3U Maths exams, but then I saw that General was that morning :D So the Board has obvious got some strange reasoning as to why Textiles is amidst the four Maths courses, so yea, just out of curiousity's...
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    Prelim Work in the Exam

    Just a q- how much Prelim work should we know for the actual exam? I checked the syllabus and all the supporting docs, but none of them clarify. I mean, not just things like fabric structure, but like the value of textiles, certain parts of the industry, etc. I suppose they could ask it, right...
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    Raw Marks to Band Cut Offs

    I know that we know the exact data for some subs as to what the highest band cut off point was for the last two years, but was wondering if anyone could just make a fairly general prediction as to what I should try to get to make it into those band 6s/E4s. Subjects I'm doing are English...
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    UAI Prediction please

    I posted some sketchy results on a post a while ago, but I can't seem to find it anywhere, and it won't bump even if I edit it, so I figure I should just start afresh with my actual report I think my school's 35th... it's public... about 300 in grade... Subject----------------Trials...
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    Is this OK?

    I did last years HSC and got 92/120 ~ 77% for it, is it a reasonable mark, above/below average, or should I just work heaps harder?
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    Should I drop?

    I'm really considering dropping EE2... I've just realised that my thesis is more focused on social stuff than my text itself... and I can't seem to snap it back into place, so I pretty much have nothing... And I really don't want to spend any time these holidays on it if I'm just going to...
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    UAI Prediction please...

    UAI Prediction please... **updated with Trial results** Can someone please predict a range of my UAI from my half yearly results... I know I'm aiming for 99, so tell me how much harder I have to work to get it? School: apparently 35th - it's public No. in Grade: approx. 310 Subject -----...
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    Where do you read?

    Where do you read? Just curious, seeing if there are any strange and unique places that I should try reading as well :D
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    Financial Support

    Does anyone know or have heard of someone who got financial assistance from Centrelink (or anywhere else) because they chose to go to a uni in another state?
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    Resources for T&D

    Does anyone have a good site or book that they get their info from? My teacher continually gets her notes from hsc.csu, and otherwise makes her own up... but if you know of a proper source of info, or still have your notes lying around, would be very grateful :D Thanks
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    Integration problem

    I'm really not getting this section on Logs and Exps... can someone tell me how I should do this question? Find y, given that y' = 2^-x, and y = 1/(2log2) when x = 1 I've spent so long on it, and I know that when someone shows me it's going to be so obivious... Thanks...
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    Thought this was interesting...

    The student who dared February 15 2003 (from SMH) The HSC exam topic was revenge tragedy. So a character with a plan to disembowel the PM would be a creative fit, right? James Giugni could not have been more wrong. Late last year I received an unusually succinct letter from the NSW Board...
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    Should I appeal?

    My school's assessment weightings are: Proposal - 30% Viva Voce - 40% Report - 30% But the syllabus lists it as: Proposal - 20% Viva Voce - 40% Report - 40% And says "While the allocations of weightings to the various tasks set for the HSC Course is left to individual schools, the...
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    Hyperbola question

    Coroneos asks this a lot, and I thought I had it, went back and realised that I'd made it up :p The tangent at P (a sec , b tan ) on the hyperbola H: x/a - y/b = 1 meets a directrix in Q and S is the corresponding focus. Prove that SQ is perpendicular to SP. So you find tangent eqn, find...
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    How do you work at home (for ppl with siblings)

    Lately, I've been getting so annoyed, I have two brothers 10 and 7, and they don't stop talking, it's physically impossible for them... the latest technique I have is bringing the youngest in to sit on my floor and sit in silence while I work, but I hear every sound in my house, does anyone have...
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    Ran

    Is anyone else doing Ran as a study of interpretation for King Lear? Or is it just me, and my teacher just likes it cause his wife is Japanese and he spent two years there? :p
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    Am I about to make a big mistake?

    I think my argument's changing again - but no longer branching off an old topic, but completely changing... It's gone from Exploring How The Media Influences Children With Stereotypical Notions of Witches Through Television and Literature to Exploring How a Composer's Purpose and Target...
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