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    Is this possible in the HSC?

    Ok so i had my ancient history trial this morning and i open the paper and find these two questions from Pompeii staring at me: 1) What was the name of Strabo's book? (1 mark) 2) According to a 64BC inscription which emperor restored the Temple of the Mother God at Pompeii? (2 marks) Only...
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    HSC Tearing Homes Apart...

    Ok so today my shelf fell down from the weight of my folders. Literally ripped right out of the wall. It nearly collapsed on my head while i was studying. Anyone else's homes suffering damage from the hsc?
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    Struggling with Pompeii?

    Is anyone else having problems with this topic? The actual information isn't that hard cause its all just content, but my teacher spent so much time doing our period study that he's left five weeks to cover pompeii. There's 150 pages in our book and EVERY lesson our teacher sets around 20-30...
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    Democracy and the Delian League

    I've got an assesement next week on the tranformation of the Delian League to the Athenian Empire and i was wondering if someone could help me with a point of confusion... I've written some practise essays for my teacher to mark and he keeps writing on them "dont forget the establishment of...
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    Extension English Students- how many hours?

    Ok I was wondering how many hours of lessons you have each week? I was reading the syllabus for the extension course the other day and it said that students should do "60 hours of indicative study". At our school, we do one and a half hours a week (although this is closer to one hour seeing at...
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    Use of personal voice in english

    I was wondering if any of you could help me with a question i have in relation to both Advanced English and Ex 1. At the moment, both my teachers are saying that the rules of HSC english have changed, and now all essays have to be written in a personal voice, i.e. "I belive..." "we can see..."...
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    Ways to Improve at Ex English

    Ok basically my question if for anyone doing extension english, or has done in the past. So far in our extension lessons we have been given one piece of work, and our teacher is one of those really young teachers who's never taught the hsc before and doesn't really know much about the subject. I...
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    Modern and Ancient Research Assignments

    So what's everyone doing for their research assignemnts? Unfortunatley i do both ancient and modern so i have two to do....at least their not due for a while tho! Anyway thought it might be interesting to see what everyone else is doing.
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    English Texts Relating to Identity

    Ok so our english AOS is 'identity' and we have to find three different texts that relate to this. I've been looking all day but can't seem to find any that look like i could write a fair amount on in an essay......just wondering if anyone has any suggestions?
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    Are you ready??

    Ok so the school cert is tomorrow, who feels prepared? who's cramming? and who just doesn't care?
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    Suggest a Course

    Speaking to a friend who has decided to drop out next year, she explained that her reaosn for leaving was because the hsc didn't offer many courses that interested her. So if you could include any course in the HSC what would it be? Personally, I've always thought a course in politics or...
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    Geo Question

    I was looking through my geography outline yesterday and i found a question i wasn't really sure how to answer. the question is: "identify and discuss government population policies in relation to growth rates, migration, and refugees." At the beginning of the year our geography teacher...
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    This makes me sick...

    I just heard that the random girl who places sky on neighbours (stephanie macintosh i think her name is??) will be releasing a single in the next few days...personally i find this a tad pathetic...what do u guys think about people on tv shows becoming 'singers'? Personally i think that there...
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    Only NSW??

    Hey, i'm currently picking my subjects for year 11 and am considering doing legal studies, however something one of social science teachers said the other day sort of put me off...he said that the course was based entirely on NSW, which too me sounds a tad...well boring:sleep: Is this the case...
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    Do you like economics?

    Hi all, i'm in year 10 at the moment, and am choosing my subjects for next year, and am considering taking econmics. My quetsion is...do you like the subject? Is the content interesting, are you glad you took the course? i realize everyone had different likes but i thought i'd see what people...
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    Continuers- Will I be at a disadvantage?

    Does anyone here do japanese continuers? I am in year 10 at the moment and am making my subject selections for next year...i really enjoy japanese although i have only been studying since the beginning of year 9. Some people in my class have been studying since they started primary school (they...
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    Journalism

    Hi all, i've just finished doing work experience at SBS and for all my efforts i couldn't drag any information out of the people there about which courses are best to do to get into journalism. Half of them said CSU and the other half said UTS. And ideas which course has the better reputation?
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    What To Do??

    Just need some help about a problem i have with one of my teachers. English is my best subject at school, however my teacher is an absolute dud. I am in top year 10 class, although he has been my teacher since i started year 9. In that year and a half we have done no work. For example, this year...
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