yes absolutely
in fact my friend ranked 39th had an internal mark of 91
my school (unfortunately) didnt get more than 25 Band 6's even though we were definitely capable of getting way more this yr
this is another thing
for hsc national studies and peace and conflict u can get away with studying just 3 out of the 4 parts of the syllabus bc u get a choice between 2 questions (u can study 2 if u can predict the question but that's risky considering we're in the 4th year of the current...
btw i did:
national studies - russia and sov un
peace and conflict - cold war
change in the modern world - apartheid
my favourite topic by far was russia and sov un
make regular class notes --> this is more or less how ur going to learn (its good to talk abt the content with a sibling or a friend - helped me a lot with remembering the content tbh)
when studying for core and change in the modern world i would summarise my typed notes such that they fit on...
afaik this is mostly a private school problem and sometimes a comprehensive school problem when they have limited resources or not enough students doing a particular subject
go to basically any govt school in the top ~100 and u have some kids of a standard maths level taking 4u maths
i only felt disadvantaged by english bc the internal marking seemed very unfair
it was super dodgy (which tbh i always suspected) but i never really had concrete evidence of this until the recent hsc results when i had somehow managed to get a b6 despite being ranked close to 60th in my cohort...
i dont wanna make this an english rant thread bc we all know how that goes but yes istfg that english only exists so english teachers dont end up unemployed and homeless
welcome to english my friend
despite working as hard as i could for the subject i most hated i ended up with trash internals for the subject bc the stupid bitchy english teachers at my school had no clue what they were doing
i pulled a 94 external (not bc of my shit english teacher who was...
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