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    2023 HSC chat

    you do the prescribed for internals ofc, but then come trial and hsc time it doesn't matter. thats what my HOD said. of course there's nothing wrong with that, just not my cup of tea nor is it the type of reading i enjoy even as a standalone. Each to their own of course as literature is...
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    2023 HSC chat

    Do something else then I reckon. But fuck it's such a shit book created by shakespeare tragics trying to keep his 'legacy' of ghost writing alive. The whole plot reads like a shitty YA novel. Like the character's name is literally 8-handz smh. I asked my head of department, he said I could...
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    2023 HSC chat

    Just something I want to say, if you hate your prescribed English text's you are free to do any of your choosing come the HSC and trials. For example, my Mod A prescriptions were The Tempest and Hag-Seed which I utterly hate with intensity. So I chose to do Camus' The Stranger and Daoud's The...
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    worlds of upheaval related texts?

    Yeat's the second coming works very well too. Still one of my favourite pieces of poetry.
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    Should I drop Ext1 if I can't keep up with HW?

    ngl I don't do the HW in yr12 and am topping it. Depends on your prelim result and if you really enjoy english and if the teacher is good. I always recommend ext1 as a HSC subject to those who ask, I think it's pretty cruisy.
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    worlds of upheaval related texts?

    I do Never Let Me Go (2005) by Kazuo Ishiguro. There's a good paper comparing them: "THE TYRANNY OF PURPOSE: RELIGION AND BIOTECHNOLOGY IN ISHIGURO'S "NEVER LET ME GO". Links pre well with WFG too because of the existentialism.
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    2023 HSC chat

    It's trials you'll be right. Makes up only 10-15% of your mark for that specific subject in the end. That % ends up being even less of your overall atar. Just learn from it and focus on the HSC. Goes for everyone going nuts over trials. You flop, you learn, you do well, you learn. Thus is the...
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