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I got placed on the Scholarship Reserves List...which means I can only get a scholarship if someone ranked above me is unable to take up theirs :( Hopefully I get a smoking ATAR so I can increase my chances....

Re: Hsc 2009 bio exam It was worth 3 marks not 1, assessing the validity of the student's claim that the inheritance pattern was that of sex-linkage.

I did: electric drill - electrical energy >> rotational kinetic energy of the drill bit a kettle - electrical energy >> thermal heat energy of element a toaster - electrical energy >> thermal heat energy of element a hair dryer - electrical energy >> thermal heat energy + rotational...

I thought it was both easy and hard. Extended responses were easy, calculations I just stuffed up terribly. Not unlike maths extension a week ago; there were just things in there I had never seen before.

I am english inclined, so I absolutely ripped up the extended responses and my option topic (quanta to quarks), but choked miserably on most of the calculations.. so hopefully it evens out!

Um, not sure. Depends how in depth you went in to them all. I only did three as well (tyranase in siamese cats, BB/Bb/bb brown/blue eyes and roan cattle), but i wrote a whole page in midget writing.

It was okay. I thought they were both a little vague, but at least that gave you room to move a little.

But the stimulus text specifically said as temperature returned back to 20C or whatever it was, i.e. cools, heart rate decreased and sweating stopped. I assumed that the question begged both parts of the negative feedback mechanism.

Thats all fine and dandy, but as HSC students weve been told a million times to look over the syllabus, study the syllabus, know your syllabus inside out. NO ONE SAYS " check out and analyse every comment in the marking criteria it gives hints into what questions you will get next year " I...

I did NTG. I was expecting the essay question to be harder, but I still had to scram in 5 minutes reading time to figure out how to reshape what I had prepared. Turned out really well, and I think I added extra depth to the question. Stimulus for creative was a little weird though. I put it in...

I asked my teacher the exact same question today. He said extremely unlikely that they will, if you look at all past questions they have said at least two prescribed and at least two related texts. Especially since my module has changed, i.e. retreat to navigating the global, I don't think...

Aren't cut offs determined by a panel after the exams have been marked. That's my understanding, anyway...that they look at the top mark and the bottom mark and moderate from there.

I know what you mean! I thought the key terms in this paper were off. I thought they mixed up outline/identify/explain a few times throughout the paper relative to the marks awarded

It's in the syllabus :( The syllabus is my bio-bible

I also drew 3 diagrams in an effort to try and trick the marker into giving me the 5 marks. haha.