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HSC English resource available for current Area of Study. Detailed analysis scaffold of Robert Frost's 'Mending Wall' (including specific techniques, the effect of these techniques (possible topic/thesis statements) and sample analysis statements based on these techniques/effects (that is, how...

I think you misunderstand the circumstances a little. They wouldn't give instant access to students who, say, failed the course. But access to a uni degree is not unfair given that the stress and anxiety of the situation could very easily result in these students failing their exams. Special...

Qualified English teacher running HSC preparation workshops on the following English topics: - AOS short answer analysis skills [written texts] and practise. - AOS short answer analysis skills [visual texts] and practise. - AOS creative writing workshops +critiquing service - Frankenstein and...

Watch the version of Hamlet with David Tennant - It's brilliant. Besides, Shakespeare never intended for his plays to be read in class. If you have trouble understanding it, you should definitely try watching a few productions. I'm personally not a fan of Kenneth Branagh, but others have enjoyed...

Qualified and experienced HSC (and prelim) tutor available in Newcastle. Limited availability (prelim students can book to ensure a place in 4th term). Online places still available (contact me for details about online tuition). Please register interest either by private message or email (see...

They're not bad at all, particularly for subjects like maths and the sciences, where it's mainly repetitive practice and addressing weak points. For English I would be inclined to say it would be better to get tutoring or create a study/discussion group etc. to come up with some more original...

I agree with Blue Suede, but it also depends on where you've been volunteering. I was volunteering with Life Skills students and they offered me a reference very soon after starting. What kind of volunteering do you do? Also, if you're volunteering for the purpose of improving your resume you'd...

Unless you know the people you're tutoring, it's highly unlikely that you would get a job as a tutor before university. I've worked as a tutor for five years, and have worked as Assistant Manager at a tutoring centre for two of those five years. I know that it would be highly unlikely that I...

You can download the course guide for each of your subjects, email your tutors or go to the University bookshop website (if they use co-op) and type in your course code. The required books should come up. But if you don't have books for the first week, it should still be okay.

I think it depends on the people. If everyone in the group is there because they want to do well, and everyone can work well together, then yes it is a good way to study. However, it's usually the most beneficial to the person who takes the lead and fills the position of 'tutor' to others in the...

Rote learning is the memorisation of information from which point students can then begin to understand and engage with the information critically. I agree that it doesn't work as the dominant strategy in the HSC, but the original post suggested its removal from the school system in its...

Re: Online tutor: HSC English (all subjects) and History (all subjects). Also editing Affordable study guides also available in English and History subject areas.

Rubbish. I mean, I'm not at all surprised that we are removing it from the curriculum, but in my experience, rote learning is extremely valuable and reducing its use in Australian schools (they've been teaching teachers the evils of rote learning for a while now) has been extremely detrimental...

YES English needs to be compulsory, but I have several issues with the way we do things here. We need to have a strong literacy and numeracy program running in every primary school and re-educate parents to understand that it is absolutely vital that their children learn to read (and write...

Look, it really depends - I've seen students when I've worked in schools who are really that bad at English (the fault of society and the school system in this country for not giving them the help they needed all the way through - one of my pet hates, but I'll try to resist that tangent) who...