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  1. Tangoto

    Mark disparity?

    Man, I've been asking a lot of questions in this forum as of late. Anyways, the average of my school's English half-yearlies was around 65%. I managed to score around 71%. From a direct standpoint, 71% is pretty shit. But does that matter entirely when the low average is taken into...
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    School scaling?

    From what I've read, it seems that for students in schools not ranked in the top 150, their marks don't really get scaled up. So is it true that their score will remain closer to their actual raw marks? Correct me if I'm wrong.
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    Determining rankings?

    Hey just asking. Obviously our rankings in school aren't consistent because of varying results throughout the year, so how exactly how are they finalized for the HSC? Do they take the average, look at your ranking for your last assessment or something? Sorry if I'm not making much sense...
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    Dropping Ext 1 Maths?

    I'm currently doing Ext 1 Maths. Biology, Anc History, Mod History, Adv English, Adv Maths, SDD, so 13 units in total. Thing is, I tend to do terribly in Ext 1, mainly because I'm a lazy bastard and so I'm on the fence on whether to drop it or not. On one side, I want to do better and actually...
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    The Graveyard Book - Related Text

    Yeah, sorry about another question concerning choices of related texts, but I'm wondering, has anyone considered 'The Graveyard Book' by Neil Gaiman as an option? I read it awhile back, and in my opinion there's quite a bit of themes in it in relation to belonging, sense of place and etc. Any...
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    Cramming.

    [First topic, so hey ya'll] Hey guys, my school certificate exams are up on Monday, as well as my yearly's. I've been putting off studying for a couple of days... well, months, and now I'm going to cram like hell. Pretty much I'll be devoting 5 hours after school to study like hell. I'm...
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