Recent content by saberbladexx

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    Written a lot of notes these holidays?

    Doesn't school start on Tuesday? I did nothing. Gotta finish my homework for history; ~2 pages of notes and 3 essays :eek:. And i was supposed to do 2 pages of creative writing for English on belonging, I'm screwed lol. I'm too lazy to do it, i just wanna sleep.
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    Physics vs. Chemistry.

    Chemistry owns Physics.
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    what's ur ATAR aim and why?

    90+ cause it looks nice
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    Thoughts on the Half Yearly Exams

    Depressed and demoralized.
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    School Rankings

    It is ranked, at 455. check the second link by Iruler
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    Subject you like/dislike most?

    Like the most: Biology and Chemistry The rest are ok.
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    Music while you study.

    I like complete silence If theres noise around me i just drift off lol.
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    estimate my ATAR???

    Exactly, but try telling that to shadowdude, he has no clue on how to estimate ATARS.
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    estimate my ATAR???

    Yeah, people should at least wait till the half yearlies are done and your semester 1 ranks are given.
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    sleep

    Lately been sleeping around 10:00-11:30 on average, and waking up everyday at 6:30, for some reason i'm having trouble sleeping early this term... too much stress LOL.
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    Advanced English vs Standard English

    There are capped subjects, and yes sadly IT is one of them. 2009: 50-->40.4 Which means the student who got 100 got 100 reported on his HSC report, but when calculating his atar the aggregate score contributing for 1unit X2 was 40.4 Edit:(i.e. a 80.8 contributing if it was in his best 10 units)
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    Advanced English vs Standard English

    Oh God.... 2008 Biology: 99-->100 2009 Biology: 98-->99.8 The scaling for the subject is the same however they aren't going to unfairly award a student who scored 1 less % than last years max 100 scaled mark. Yet even though the max wasn't 100 in 2009 for Biology, BIOLOGY IS A NON-CAPPED...
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    Advanced English vs Standard English

    The HIGHEST mark was 94, you cant scale a 94 to 100, if someone in standard later on in the years got a 99-100 then yes his HSC mark would scale to 100. Standard is not capped. E.g. Biology is a non-capped subject however in 2009 the highest mark was 98% and it was scaled to a 99.8, in 2008 the...
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    Advanced English vs Standard English

    http://www.uac.edu.au/documents/atar/2009_table_A3.pdf English Standard HSC 47.0 43.0 38.5 scaled 46.4 37.9 28.7 English Advanced HSC 47.5 42.5 40.0 37.0 scaled 46.9 37.8 32.1 25.7 Standard: 43-->37.9 Advanced:42.5-->37.8 Standard 38.5-->28.7 Advance: 38.5--> 28.9-30.4
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