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I was doing pretty badly memorising essays because I wasn't answering the question enough (in the feedback I got), so I started just memorising quotes and making the essay up in the exam and ended up making a comeback and getting a 91 in english. Basically if you're not good at english like...

It's also cos most of the people who would easily get jobs are the ones that went to USYD/UNSW so it just seems like it's easier from that uni

I'm gonna say the distinction > pass just because if your marks are low your uni isn't magically gonna make you look like an amazing lawyer, idk about the credit though it might be close

Comp sci alone is fine, there's so many fields in tech already. You don't take a double degree to stand out, you should just do one only if you want to study that extra degree. Reason being is that if you study that extra degree for 2 years to 'stand out' you probably could've built projects...

Makes no difference just skip class and watch the lectures online 🫡

Understand the content then practice via past papers pretty much. Also don't just read solutions and be like "yea makes sense", try develop a better problem solving method and thought process so you can tackle any future questions. Understanding the content also helps with tackling any question...

No the textbook questions aren't necessary. Our school taught us using Terry Lee's textbook which was pretty basic then I pretty much studied off past papers till the end. So basically I'd recommend just learning the concepts/basics then moving to actual relevant stuff (trials/past papers)...

that's the secret to 99.95

Oh yeah I still mean you should study content in-depth and understand it rather than purely memorise without understanding, I worded my original post badly. I should've said that I kept re-reading stuff then asking my cohort's biology group chat for any in-depth questions I had in order to remember.

For the stuff that was pure memorisation it was pretty much just reading it over and over. However quite a lot of stuff in bio can be related to real life so you can understand the content instead of purely memorising it which helps a lot. E.g. red kangaroos sweat when it's hot to regulate body...

Gonna have to agree, uni is 1000x more chill than high school except the day before assignments and finals

My study method for bio/phys (bio wrote my own notes, phys used tutor's notes) was just purely memorising them by printing the syllabus out and crossing each dot point off 1 by 1 as I memorised it. In saying that, which study method works depends on the individual.

Uni's pretty chill u just wait till the day before assignments are due and all nighter to finish them, and for exams u wait till the day before and cram the entire course (another all nighter)

A positive is that in a lower rank school it's easier to rank 1st so no one takes your mark in the HSC if you get the highest

Most of my subjects were statistics and I don't remember doing statistics in high school so I wouldn't say it's that similar. The only thing that SLIGHTLY carried over was financial maths from doing 2u maths, but they teach you that in uni anyway (it made way more sense in uni I think) Also I...

Imo the drop rates are mostly caused by people realising that they don't like the course since a lot of people pick it due to liking 3u/4u maths - whereas the course is more statistics/financial maths/probability

Actuary has a relatively stable career and the progression is pretty simple, just pass your exams and get promotions/payrises (simplified version). Imo tech is more fun since the field is always changing and I just find the work more exciting which is why I changed fields.

English is a useless subject and is years later, all it teaches you to do is to BS in your essays (btw uni essays aren't even the same quote-technique format)

Sigma Science (i went there)

I went to a UNSW actuarial society event and there was so many people so I only got 1 slice rest in peace