Recent content by jon0_o

I'd recomend the ICAA evening .. the talks wasn't that helpful but it's good to talk to ppl n ask q's, individual info nights I went to once I got an interview to meet the people (EY and PwC have a pre-interview mingling day) ... and definitely spend time on your application, you can tell if...

My impression was they look for a certain standard of academics and if you reach that cut off then it's down to your extra curricula and your interview. say for finance I think someone said they look for 97+ but as long as your above it then it's how unique you are. but actuaries definitely need...

it depends which course, it varies a lot. Like Accounting and BIT have 20-30 each, but finance marketing and most of the various engineering streams have btwn 4-8, although it does vary alot. I think overall it's roughly 100.

i thought it was fairly hard, definitely compared to previous yrs .. but a good test, I quite liked it .. altho I droppd marks all the way through .. there were questions early on which I couldn't do .. but I got most of q 6 n 7, I could do them but made a few careless errors along the way so...

yep during my reading time i was thinking that about 1a .. can't believe they repeated a question ... and there was a growth and decay i think .. something about (y-3) .. but it was really short 3 marks overall i think

i spent agesss on this q saying z=x+iy .. but im really pissed cos i wasn't sure if the major axis was a or 2 a .. so i just put 10 . but was unsure for the tie i spent .. and for one part i didn't put it as a complex number :S .. i put 5,3 instead of 5+3i ... n the time there costs me lyk 6-7...

yeah i got 31/81 but im pretty sure it's wrong now ... i think it's 43/125 now. I got the probability of an overall draw .. then the probability of not a draw and then that divided by 2 since both teams have an equal chance of winning. but i didn't take into account the fact that certain...

also from the syllabus it's an event, personality or situation which means if you're doing Frontline your personality is 'the media' which means your related texts strictly speaking by the syllabus should be talking about the media, although you can get away with non-media texts if you can...

yeah i agree Telling the Truth is supposed to be the (conceptually anyway) most simplistic module in terms of ideas. The whole thing is about 'telling' the truth and about the techniques used to misrepresent it. but this question was too philosophical about the whole significance of the truth in...

mm yeah i thought in the wild was really generic ... Lear of course sucked ... although I wasn't confused, I understood it just didn't know anything about his characterisation. Frontline is the one that did stump me at first, I didn't know what they meant by different perspectives. Like if they...

like if more people working there are from pvt schools they're more inclined to hire private school people. Like their parents have contacts, they might know some old boys/girls etc who are from their school, or in general have friends of friends. Say if one day when I'm older if I have to...

mm i think it's kinda true about selective schools and PwC, because that's the company that gave out the most interviews to people in my school (and it was the same last yr), whereas EY was only 1. But they also said not many selective school people take cadetships cos they all want to do law...

i talked to a guy on the open day and he said actuary is the 'hardest' to get into but I think he meant academically. There are more places in actuary though so i think finance is harder bc there's lest places and also the candidature of applicants I'd imagine would be more all rounded (better...

they are companies, just not listed companies ... so in terms of shares, they don't have traditional ASX listed shares but I think they mean just a share of the profits, rather than part of the company which you can sell off.

i don't think work social life can even come close to uni social life. i know i havent' been to either but from what i've heard and what i expect, no comparison .. but i guess it depends what your looking for. Firms don't have thousands of clubs and extra-curricula activites even if they do have...