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Hey there! Im in my third year of a BED/BA at Sydney and I'm teaching Hstory and English. What the lecturer meant was that in fulfuling the Arts component of your degree, it is good to do subjects are are quite varied and cover areas in Ancient History, Modern History and Australian History...

Historiography is examined throughout studying the various timeables, Uni isnt about the lecturers shoving facts down your throat, usually the history readings are sources, in which we discuss historiograph issues in the tuts.

History at Sydney is really intereting and stimulating. I did two histories last semester and 2 this semester. There generally isnt too much work, usually 1 or 2 essays, a tut presenation and an exam. The areas that the lecture look at are interesting and the tutors are really supporting, giving...

Dont get behind on your notes! I got a UAI of 95 in 2003, so my method worked well for me. Every day when I got home I typed up the notes from my classes and the stuff we went over the textbook. By doing this, I got about 40 typed pages per topic. I then went over them constantly, so by the HSC...

With no band 6's, it is most likely that you would get about 90-93. I got 4 band 6's; three 90's and one 91, and i got 94.

B Secondary Education (Humanities and Social Sciences) / B Arts at USYD. I got a UAI of 94.65 so im pretty optimistic ill get into my course. It was 83.25 last year.

Im doing JFK, and its really interesting to look at the different viewpoints. Id rather do Elizabeth the I, that would be cool.

When looking at the public schools, you need to take into account the selective schools, as they are all public and often contain more academically gifted students that the private schools. At my selective school, all but 2 got band 6 results in the 2002 HSC.

I do all three subjects too. History is the best. The order of best to worst is modern, extension, then ancient, as in ancient you need to remember lots of weird names and many sources.

I got 24.5/25, and on average I used about 3 or 4 footnotes per page. You dont want to have so many footnotes that it seems there is more words written in the footnotes than the essay.

I got 46/50, which was the highest. So Im really happy. My teacher said he gave us two really hard questions. Next stop, the HSC! :(

Buy the excel book I bought the RAGAD and Hamlet excel book and i strongly recommend that you buy it. It explains the transformation between the two plays and the various themes, and makes some of the concepts in RAGAD easier to understand such as the theatre of the absurd. :)