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[Etho_x]

Chem and bio, ext maths, adv eng, sdd, and pdh what about you?

Chem, Bio, MX1, Std English, SDD, Drama

 

[valeriexbk]

im doing english adv, extension 1 math, bio, legal, and both histories. low key don't wanna do bio tho.

 

[Etho_x]

im doing english adv, extension 1 math, bio, legal, and both histories. low key don't wanna do bio tho.

How come?

 

[valeriexbk]

How come?

science just ain't my thing. over the years I've become less interested in it. wanted to do business studies, but it aint running next year at my school.

 

[Etho_x]

science just ain't my thing. over the years I've become less interested in it. wanted to do business studies, but it aint running next year at my school.

Was there something else you could have picked instead? What about some of the technology subjects?

 

[valeriexbk]

science just ain't my thing. over the years I've become less interested in it. wanted to do business studies, but it aint running next year at my school.

my school only got 350 students in total so like not much of a choice when it comes to subjects. next year my year group only gonna have 30 people in it.

 

[valeriexbk]

Was there something else you could have picked instead? What about some of the technology subjects?

in that line, there was bio, ipt and slr and i just dislike all of the subjects in general

 

[Etho_x]

in that line, there was bio, ipt and slr and i just dislike all of the subjects in general

In that case, maybe picking bio out of those 3 wasn't the best decision. Bio is quite content-heavy after all. From what I've heard, IPT and SDD aren't as heavy as biology is.

 

[valeriexbk]

In that case, maybe picking bio out of those 3 wasn't the best decision. Bio is quite content-heavy after all. From what I've heard, IPT and SDD aren't as heavy as biology is.

ye i still dont know, ill see how I go with it at the beginning, and if I like it ill keep it, if I don't ill drop it.

 

[Etho_x]

ye i still dont know, ill see how I go with it at the beginning, and if I like it ill keep it, if I don't ill drop it.

Yeah for sure man, do what you feel comfortable with

 

[valeriexbk]

Yeah for sure man, do what you feel comfortable with

i applied for business studies over distance ed, I sent my application a week and a half late so I don't know whether they'll accept it. but if it goes through ill drop bio.

 

[Etho_x]

i applied for business studies over distance ed, I sent my application a week and a half late so I don't know whether they'll accept it. but if it goes through ill drop bio.

Personally, don't know how Distance Education will be. I've had a not so good experience with them this year. Did Year 10 Music externally with them this year since my school didn't offer it as an elective. The teacher I got was unresponsive 90% of the time to both my calls and emails and they took bloody ages to get me on their system. Almost 7 weeks...
Don't know how your experience will be with them but all I can hope is that it's a lot better than what my experience was.

 

[valeriexbk]

Personally, don't know how Distance Education will be. I've had a not so good experience with them this year. Did Year 10 Music externally with them this year since my school didn't offer it as an elective. The teacher I got was unresponsive 90% of the time to both my calls and emails and they took bloody ages to get me on their system. Almost 7 weeks...
Don't know how your experience will be with them but all I can hope is that it's a lot better than what my experience was.

jeez that sucks. cause of what you told me, I high key don't wanna do it anymore.

 

[Etho_x]

jeez that sucks. cause of what you told me, I high key don't wanna do it anymore.

Don't let my opinion get to you, but only hope that you'll get a decent teacher. Surely because you're a Prelim HSC student next year, they should hopefully have their act together to make sure they're prioritising you.

 

[electricityzapper]

Surely because you're a Prelim HSC student next year, they should hopefully have their act together to make sure they're prioritising you.

Dude, my science faculty at school screwed up. Some teachers didn't finish the last module and our school rank dropped from top twenty to top fourty. (or so I heard from the HSC cohort this year.)

 

[Drdusk]

Dude, my science faculty at school screwed up. Some teachers didn't finish the last module and our school rank dropped from top twenty to top fourty. (or so I heard from the HSC cohort this year.)

Ouch really? That's very lousy of them :\

 

[electricityzapper]

Ouch really? That's very lousy of them :\

Because of this, my whole cohort is going to science tutoring.

and,

can you give me study tips for these holidays (and in general) for the following subjects;

-English Advanced

-MX1 (+ Advanced)

-Biology

-Chemistry

-Physics

-Economics

Thanks! (I noticed you're a moderator e.e)

 

[Cherrybomb56]

Dude, my science faculty at school screwed up. Some teachers didn't finish the last module and our school rank dropped from top twenty to top fourty. (or so I heard from the HSC cohort this year.)

Just wondering what topic was this?

 

[electricityzapper]

Just wondering what topic was this?

The last module for the particular subject. ;-;

 

[Drdusk]

Because of this, my whole cohort is going to science tutoring.

and,

can you give me study tips for these holidays (and in general) for the following subjects;

-English Advanced

-MX1 (+ Advanced)

-Biology

-Chemistry

-Physics

-Economics

Thanks! (I noticed you're a moderator e.e)

I can give advice for MX1( + Advanced) and Physics as the other subjects are not really my forte.

Maths:
For this you really want to make sure you don't fall behind because it requires you to understand theory + practice whereas a lot of other subjects you could just regurgitate out the theory and get good marks.

You need to practice a lot for this subject and by that I don't mean finish the homework your teacher gives you every lesson. Usually the homework has questions that are around easy to medium level difficulty in terms of the HSC exam. You really need to do heaps of end of exam type questions. Don't spend time doing questions you already know you can do. What I would usually do for questions in the earlier part of the exam is just mentally solve them and check the answer to see if I was right, and then actually time myself properly with the question 13/14s for 3u and 15/16s for 4u(in your case Adv). When your studying and doing past papers, you don't actually need to do the whole paper every time. Put on a stopwatch and time yourself just for the final 2 questions and see how long it takes and find out of this is going over the time you usually have left or over. This way you can get more harder questions done instead of doing the whole paper each time.

Physics:
For Physics you really need to make sure you understand the content. Even though most of the exam relies on memory recall and regurgitating essays, if you want to ace the MC you must actually understand the content. Really the hardest questions in the Physics HSC are usually found in the MC and this is what is used to separate students. So a good study tip is to try and teach what you've learnt to someone else or even just in your room because "If you can't explain it well enough, you don't understand it yourself". You might have one of those "Ah" moments where you realize you were mistaken or didn't truly understand something.

For the long responses you could spew out all the content related to a question but if it doesn't answer the question you won't get the marks. So you should practice writing long responses as it's a skill that does require you to practice. For calculation questions there's not much to it just do any you can find.

Then there's graph questions. These questions are usually a bit 'tricky'. A lot of the time what your going to be asked to do is observe or sketch a graph based on some data points and be asked to calculate something. 99% of the time this means your going to need to use the gradient of the graph. It takes a bit of practice to see how the gradient of a graph can relate to an equation, you may also need to manipulate the equation so make sure you spend time with these kind of questions if you don't get them.

In HSC Physics the 'hard' calculation questions usually come down to equating two formulas. This usually requires you to understand what is going on to realize you can equate them. However if you don't understand it just equate the two formulas that seem like they apply to this question as a last resort.

Another note make sure you pay attention and write up your pracs because you CAN be asked questions about pracs in the HSC.


As for these holidays, I would say enjoy them! I didn't do anything in the year 10 holidays and I went fine. If you feel as though your a bit behind in Maths then maybe revise some of the year 10 content. Other than that have a great holiday, because the next time you have it you'll be studying everyday.

Thanks! (I noticed you're a moderator e.e)

Only just became one lol