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Overall I liked the paper. 1-7 were fine except for 3.a, which I over-analysed and found my own 'misprint' in. I really liked the bird population one, but I could've sworn that exponential decay with a limiting factor was 3U material. 8 was challenging but I got it all done eventually, with...

If it doesn't ask specifically for the area you do the integration or the Simpson's approximation in one part. It's just a value, not a physical thing.

My maths teacher has said it's entirely possible to get full marks if you just make a calculator error, as long as your working is clear enough to show the markers that that's where your error came from. My answers (which I cunningly wrote down on my paper) were $1439.18 and 94 months.

If I haven't lost the paper in the pile of stuff on my desk. Here it is: 33. Option H - Greece: The Greek world 500-440 BC a) Assess the contribution of Miltiades and Leonidas to the course of the Persian Wars. OR b) Explain the origins and organisation of the Delian League.

Just got my letter of confirmation for the University of Sydney Scholarships today. I think it's just a standard thing that everyone gets, but has anyone scored an outright rejection? I seem to recall reading somewhere that people have been rejected before the HSC results came out, which could...

13. Option J - Greece: Athenian society in the time of Pericles a) Name TWO commercial centres of Athens. (2 marks) b) What was the polis? (2 marks) c) Describe the main features of marriage customs in Athenian society. (5 marks) d) Outline the role of the military in Athenian society. (6...

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There's no preset number of people who get into each band. The band divisions are based entirely on how well you meet the performance descriptors for the course. So it's entirely possible for everyone in the state to get Band 6, or everyone in the state to get Band 1. Other people's...

I thought it was the easier of the two, because the Civil War's origins are really very complex. You can actually trace the civil war back to the conflict between the optimates and the populares, although that's probably not what they were aiming for. I assume the differential in the difficulty...

How is it difficult to teach? We seemed to go fine with it. And what difference does it make whether it's been on there one year, five years or thirty years? If schools don't want to do it, there's about a million texts they can do instead. What they should be doing it getting rid of the...

Cities of Vesuvius: pretty good. Food I didn't know much about, but I aced the forum (why did they call it 'the Eumachia'? It's the Building of Eumachia - it's named after a person, for god's sake) and to a lesser extent the Lady of Oplontis (thank god for Sara Bisel and Estelle Lazer's bone...

Caesar's reforms I couldn't remember anything about, so I sort of fudged it. The Gallic Wars was great, I got several pages talking about how it led to an increase in his influence and popularity because of the land he captured and the money he sent back, as well as giving him a very strong and...

Mod B was essentially evaluating lots of factors with one specified, so it wasn't too bad. Mod A was worse, because you had to specifically talk about one thing and one thing only, in depth. Unless, like me, you twisted the question to suit your own thesis.

I thought it was great. It was really far less specific than it looked - it was looking for a lot of factors, but specified one to evaluate against the others. Even better, I knew a couple of scenes that showed how Lear's character affected my interpretation. (My interpretation being a mix of...

Module A: How does a comparative study of <your two texts> bring to the fore ideas about <a topic>? In your response make detailed reference to your TWO prescribed texts. The topics being: Emma/Clueless: the quality of relationships in society Hamlet/RosGuild: the nature of moral order...

Hear hear. Any question with 'To what extent' in it is all right by me, because you can totally ignore what the question specifies, do your own thing and just do a little bit on the actual topic at the end. I thought this module (I did Lear) was the best of the three.

I interpreted 'relationships in society' very broadly for Emma/Clueless and talked about how charity is a consistent value between the two, but expressed in different ways. The fact that the value is shown to be continuous highlights it as an issue. (And charity is about relationships because it...

BAC, strongest to weakest. That's King Lear, Emma/Clueless, Frontline. Damn you, telling the truth.

Module A, for Emma/Clueless, was weird: what does 'the quality of relationships in society' mean? I just took my prepared ideas and tried to relate it by talking about how maintaing underlying values highlights them or something. Module B, for King Lear, I thought was really good. Because it...

As people have pointed out before, English is not designed to develop your ability to deconstruct texts. It is to develop generic analytical skills and enhance writing ability. Advanced English is an advanced course. The idea (I think) is that Standard is more language-based, whereas Advanced...