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The Kaiser said:
Get the Young Writer's Showcase series, if you're thinking about doing Extension 2 English. It has works from the best Ext 2 English students across the state across a wide range of texts, plus their reflection statements, which you can use as a basis for your own reflection statement.
Is it useful for Advanced or EX1?
 

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Aerath said:
Is it useful for Advanced or EX1?
Only really in the creative writing element, for Ext 1, but it only can be used as a guide for creative text types in that area. Not useful for Advanced at all.
 

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Only really in the creative writing element, for Ext 1, but it only can be used as a guide for creative text types in that area. Not useful for Advanced at all.
But don't we have creatives in Advanced? Remember Identity one for the half yearlies?
 

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But don't we have creatives in Advanced? Remember Identity one for the half yearlies?
Extension 1 is about half and half Esaay and Creative. I don't think it will help with Advanced, because the creative tasks aren't as weighted as much. (Plus I had YWS 6, and read it, understood the techniques that composer was using, but I only got 16/20 for that particular task).

If you're not doing Extension 2, then I wouldn't recommended it, because it's the closest thing to an English Ext 2 Textbook as you can get, and doesn't have any real tips for improving writing skills, just works to give you examples and ideas of major works.
 

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Extension 1 is about half and half Esaay and Creative. I don't think it will help with Advanced, because the creative tasks aren't as weighted as much. (Plus I had YWS 6, and read it, understood the techniques that composer was using, but I only got 16/20 for that particular task).
The essay component of Extension helps alot I reckon. If you master how to write an essay using a proper thesis and everything, it's basically 20/20 for everything after that. :p
 

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Yeah, no kidding. I do well in Essays, not so well in Creatives. :)
 

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Yeah, no kidding. I do well in Essays, not so well in Creatives. :)
You can bs your way through a creative task :(
 

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You can bs your way through a creative task :(
Yeah, I keep thinking that you can't really prepare for it (which you can't really, but yeah).
 

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Yeah, I keep thinking that you can't really prepare for it (which you can't really, but yeah).
That's why lawyers and such have to be good at English type subjects. BS artists :)
 

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That's why lawyers and such have to be good at English type subjects. BS artists :)
Wooosh, there goes my chance for law.
 

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lyounamu said:
QFT.

The contents provided by most Excel books are not just sufficient.

However, some Excel books really stand out among those rubbish series. I am referring to Mathematics, MX1, MX2, General Mathematics, Physics and some other books that I may have missed out.
Excel Mathematics Textbooks are the only ones I've heard of which have fully-worked answers.
 

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Excel Mathematics Textbooks are the only ones I've heard of which have fully-worked answers.
Yeah, but the questions aren't as good as those in books like Fitzpatrick. Also you can buy extra worked solutions for books like Coroneous (or be like me and borrow them off the library).
 

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The best study/ revision guides for english are MacQuarie (best) then York Notes if you can get them.
 

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Yeah, in addition to that, I think Get Smart are pretty good, too.
 

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