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  1. smartalec

    i can't open my examination responses?

    so i got the email, opened up the document and it won't show my responses? any help would be greatly appreciated! also, in case it helps i have a mac.
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    early february round question?

    hey guys, so as my preferences I stupidly put the course with the higher atar as my first preference and the course I really want to do as my second preference. there is a good chance I might get into my first preference (although I'm scraping by with bonus points) and while I wouldn't mind...
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    smartalec's raw marks!

    don't judge me guys, I'm just contributing to the raw marks database which gave me ao much hope during the hsc :) I'm just going to post my raw marks: English advanced: short answers: 15/15 creative writing: 12/15 (I went in with a pre prepared story and it made a crap link to the...
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    happy but want to kill myself?

    Anyone else want to kill themselves for getting an 89/79/69 etc? I think my situation may be one of the worst. 3 x 89's in food tech, adv english and maths + my 2 band 6's = missing out on a premier's award. kill me now! however, still stoked! feel free to vent your frustrations!
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    Lose marks if?

    I just realised when I was writing something in an exam, I used more examples than what was required for the marks of the question. I just realised one of my examples was wrong, but the others were right. Question is, will I lose marks if SOME of my answer is wrong but the rest is right and is...
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    important question!!

    hey guys, so in my biology exam and my sor exam, i went over the lines...does that matter? will it still be marked? it did not exceed the black things on the bottom of the page though. I was never informed we couldnt write over the lines until someone brought it up today!
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    Communication Elective?

    Theres a thread for every elective except the most popular - communication (unless im blind haha.) how did you guys find it? what did everyone say about the LASEK thing? Also did everyone find they gave us way too much space to write? especially for C. so much for helping us to limit our...
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    75 raw ?

    what band/mark would that align to? thanks!
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    urgh. it was right in front of us.

    Extracted from BOS 2009 supportive documents - Examples of different questions: Section II Example 2 (15 marks) – question with dependent parts (a) Outline ONE significant practice within Islam drawn from the following: 3 • Friday prayer at the mosque • Funeral ceremony • Hajj (b)...
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    It"s my birthday

    WRONG THREAD BY FAR BUT WHATEVER IM 18!!!!! oh and good luck 2unit + extension students :)
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    Module A 'context'

    so the question asked specifically about context. did this mean we had to put MORE context than usual? Or could it just be a generic response and in doing so, placing emphasis/answering the question?
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    how many marks would I lose?

    well for the creative writing, my link to place wasn't that obvious - I more or less said remembering belonging to people formed her a sense of place...I also had another bit similar to that but not sure if it was obvious the it was a memory type thing. how many marks would you lose for a...
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    Estimate for a friend

    English Standard: 12/120 General Mathematics: 50/107 Studies of Religion 2: 9/35 IPT: 2/24 CAFS: 2/45 Senior Science: 3/30 School rank ~200
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    raw marks for a band 5?

    lol so i know a band 6 is totally out of reach after today. so was wondering what the cutoff for a band 5 would be ROUGHLY? would ~70/105 be enough?
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    what would be the worst possible belonging essay question they can ask us?

    anything that could make someone reconsider their preprepared ideas?
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    another random: are you allowed to thread

    haha so i dont know if anyone has thought of this, but we all know the supervisors are totally clueless about the type of exam we have to do. so my question is...if we need to memorise statistics, could we put them in our calculater, then in the exam, press the 'answer' or 'memory' button and...
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    short answers question?

    hey guys, I was wondering if they asked us to say, identify an 'aspect' of belonging for 1 mark, does this mean the TYPE of belonging? e.g. belonging to place, to people, etc? Coz i saw a question on it, but then the next question said, 'explain how the persons connection to place..." so...
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    raw marks for CAFS/General Maths?

    What raw marks would I need roughly to get an aligned mark of 85+?
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    belonging essay structure?

    hey guys, for the belonging essay structure, (im doing skrzynecki) can we have an underlying idea/thesis: that belonging is all about the development of ones identity and throughout the essay explore how this through different examples from the poems/related text? E.G. for half my essay I...
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    Estimate for a friend

    These are his ranks, school rank aprox early-mid 200's. English Advanced = 14/30 Biology = 8/35 Modern History = 5/12 General Maths = 5/110 Studies of Religion 2 = 17/35 Visual Arts = 4/15 He 'reckons' his cohort is stronger though. He is looking at commerce degrees and wants to know...
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