2008 Higher School Certificate

[DragonPunk]

Awesome my exams go from next Monday to the Wednesday after with only day rest

 

[Mr. Fahrenheit]

yesterday someone mentioned to me that we were doing our trials this time last year and it was like yeah, shut up. Good luck to everyone enduring that this year

by the way, inner journeys is where it's at lol, a funny thing about HSC english for the last few years is that it has ruined the word journey, last semester in Literature, we came across one of the poems from the stimulus booklet, it just makes me think how sad would it be if I was teaching the same poem after I graduate?

one thing which makes uni so much better than high school is that passing is always good enough P = degree
in saying that, I had pretty good results last semester, no HDs, but I will live, how was everyone else's (everyone else in uni of course) first semester results?

i should have technically absent failed all my units, went to 1 lecture each and half the tutes and studied about 2hours each for the final? I love uni so laid back. got S, C, C, HD

 

[NK Arsenal]

Awesome my exams go from next Monday to the Wednesday after with only day rest

haha I didnt even get one day break

but it was worth it!

my evaluation

English Paper One - not too hard. Comprehension was harder than what I thought it would be, creative writing was easy but I didnt finish it and the journey thing wasnt that hard.

Business Services - not too hard, not too easy!

English Paper Two - easier than the first english paper which is something I wasnt expecting. Telling stories was ok, wilfred owens poetry was pretty easy and the into the world sh*t wasnt too hard either but I didnt finish that part.

PD/H/PE - should of spent my time studying in the 1.5hr break between english and pe instead of going to maccas lol but I did a good cramming sesh. The exam was pretty tricky at times but I think/hope i didnt do too bad

General Maths - the multiple choice was pretty easy and I was thinking for a while that this is the easiest test ive ever done until i saw all the other sections. Some parts were pretty basic things while others parts had questions which really f**ked me up such as changing the subject of formulas and interquartile range so I just had to make it up as i went along. I forgot the formula for how to find the area of a triangle though which really bugged me so I made something up.

 

[simmo1]

I forgot the formula for how to find the area of a triangle though which really bugged me so I made something up.

Your kidding, right?

 

[NK Arsenal]

no hahaha.

i just made up some sh*t like A = 1/2 h x l

 

[Apey]

What formula for trying to find an area of a triangle did you forget?

The one you learn in primary school; A= 1/2 x b x h

or the one you learn later in high school using trigonometry; A = 1/2 x a x b x SinC

 

[NK Arsenal]

yeah there was the sin on the formula sheet but there was no degrees so i wasnt sure what to do, lol

thanks for the tip though!

 

[Hallatia]

i should have technically absent failed all my units, went to 1 lecture each and half the tutes and studied about 2hours each for the final? I love uni so laid back. got S, C, C, HD

what's S?
I got:
Education - pass
History - pass
Economics - credit
English - distinction
Philosophy - distinction

 

[sportive cupid]

Halla,Mr F, and anyone else here just starting uni- I do hope you are embracing what university really has to offer. It is not just about classes and grades .
It is about Learning with a capital LLL.

I hope you have been joining ;
clubs
protests
all night drinking competitions,
your fellow students!

Please tell me you are and I will be satisfied that the next generation is not wasted

 

[madunit]

yes, the main thing about uni is being brainwashed into believing some greenie bias bullsh*t and protesting about dopey things and make an absolute moron of yourself.

Afterall, whats life without regrets?

 

[DragonPunk]

Halfway i think i've done alright in them all besides Maths next up the second English paper

 

[Mr. Fahrenheit]

Halla,Mr F, and anyone else here just starting uni- I do hope you are embracing what university really has to offer. It is not just about classes and grades .
It is about Learning with a capital LLL.

I hope you have been joining ;
clubs
protests
all night drinking competitions,
your fellow students!

Please tell me you are and I will be satisfied that the next generation is not wasted

haha omg... hahahah i havent been to classes in 2 weeks whilst i have been to uni. Got absolutely sh*tfaced last wednesday at uni. If anything, i need a bit of the opposite advice coz trust me... i barely do any work as it is and only getting worse. Will be going to a protest on the 26th now that you mention it Sportive

 

[Mr. Fahrenheit]

what's S?
I got:
Education - pass
History - pass
Economics - credit
English - distinction
Philosophy - distinction

hhaha f**k doing 5 units... 4's a happy medium.

S is 'Satisfactory', in this unit there was only 'S' and U (unsatisfactory)... no C, D, HD, P, F

 

[Hallatia]

hhaha f**k doing 5 units... 4's a happy medium.

S is 'Satisfactory', in this unit there was only 'S' and U (unsatisfactory)... no C, D, HD, P, F

I am not doing 5 units anymore yay! Four is so easy, I am a fulltime student and I only go to uni 3 days a week. I also have the easiest timetable ever, my week starts on Wednesday and I am only at uni from 9 til 11 (and it is only for 2 lectures which I could avoid attending if I didn't feel like it because it's not like they mark attendance), Thursday 9 to 4 and Friday 9 to 1

I get you, a lot of tafe subjects are like that too, it is more about completing them then getting marks and stuff

 

[sportive cupid]

yes, the main thing about uni is being brainwashed into believing some greenie bias bullsh*t and protesting about dopey things and make an absolute moron of yourself.

Afterall, whats life without regrets?

That's hilarious Madunit.

 

[Bulldog Force]

It's not the end fo the world. The hsc is just a petty test.

 

[Bumble]

passes in everything last semester - not bad seeing as i went to about 25% of lectures and did all my assignments the night before

Anyone who thinks uni isn't waaaaaaay easier than high school was is lying to you.

 

[Mr. Fahrenheit]

passes in everything last semester - not bad seeing as i went to about 25% of lectures and did all my assignments the night before

Anyone who thinks uni isn't waaaaaaay easier than high school was is lying to you.

depends really. I didn't go to any lectures apart from week one, and missed about 5 tuts each, and did my assingments the night before and exam study for a few hours the night before. i did ok, only because the stuff i was learning about i was interested in, and had a grasp of the concepts. What ALOT of people do in both HS and uni, is that they learn/memorise the content instead of understanding and applying the concepts... i find the latter alot more productive, as evidenced by my lacksadaisical attitude and decent results both HSC/uni... (although uni one was surprising)

I would say for anyone who used to learn/memorise the content, uni would be harder as there is ALOT more content, but for those who take the other approach, uni might be easier as alot of it is the application of ideas rather than the memorising (like most would have done in HSC english)

 

[Johns Magic]

depends really. I didn't go to any lectures apart from week one, and missed about 5 tuts each, and did my assingments the night before and exam study for a few hours the night before. i did ok, only because the stuff i was learning about i was interested in, and had a grasp of the concepts. What ALOT of people do in both HS and uni, is that they learn/memorise the content instead of understanding and applying the concepts... i find the latter alot more productive, as evidenced by my lacksadaisical attitude and decent results both HSC/uni... (although uni one was surprising)

I would say for anyone who used to learn/memorise the content, uni would be harder as there is ALOT more content, but for those who take the other approach, uni might be easier as alot of it is the application of ideas rather than the memorising (like most would have done in HSC english)

Yeah fo sho.

It was always funny at school that your teachers would tell you "we can tell who's just regurgitating memorised essays or stories word for word straight away, and we deduct marks heavily for this".

The fact was, at school and in the HSC exams, you didn't have time to come up with three new, well-written, intelligent essays in two hours. I found that out the hard way.

Students who memorised their pieces beforehand always got the better marks without fail. Kids would even write up pre-prepared essays a week before the exam and hand it into the teacher to mark and "advise on".

I only ever memorised stuff before the final HSC exams, and of course, did way better than in my assessments. Eight pages of memorised stuff will always look more impressive than four pages of carefully constructed thought on the question(as long as what you memorise is good stuff).

I would say that it was unfortunate that I only figured this all out so late, but I'm more than happy with what I got and where I am now(which is exactly where I was hoping to be), so I'm not bitter. I just think it's a stupid system that rewards students who can copy what their teacher tells them.

As you said, uni is far more suited to students who actually understand and appreciate the stimulus. If you know your stuff you'll always do well.

 

[Apey]

screwed up my maths extension 1 trial and left some easy sh*t out

think I just gave up my 1st position