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Thoughts on scaling this year? - Felt like it was harder than 2023?

Predict your atar: 99.3 hopefully Predict your band 6: All or I bomb physics How r u going to fill the void in ur life: Travelling How r u burning ur notes: Probably gonna save them for others lol R u doing schoolies? If so where: Terrigal

Yeah had to be tetrahedral

Well hopefully they don't mark too harshly for that - sucks since I got everything right just forgot abt doing that stuff

real I have phys aswell and at this point i dont even care abt my hsc I just wanna be free - everyone else is alr out celebrating smh

Hopefully they mark leniently but they would want you to use all the given data imo

Damn nice, gunning for sr? I'm hoping for 92+ depending on how they mark the 7 marker and my writing

What do you reckon you guys got raw?

Yep - hopefully its just two, I think my explanation for everything else was solid

How harshly penalised would I be for the 7 marker about XYZ, if I didn't calculate the moles of each and use the molar mass? - Got order right and used all the other data kinda just forgot about the mass rip

Thoughts on scaling/difficulty compared to last year?

How was it? - General consensus I've heard was that it was much easier than 2023?

As someone who did the e1 hsc last year, don't place too much emphasis on the previous years testing - everyone was weary of another large sample proportion question but we got hit with a nasty vector proof - also look at areas which NESA hasn't tested as much since theres a high likelihood...

There are still quiet a few rote learnings in chemistry but I find that their much better planned - I think physics is extremely dumbed down since it caters to all math levels so questions which once required a deeper mathematical understanding have been replaced by memorisation/content dumps -...

To each their own, good luck with the rest of your exams :)

I think you're misunderstanding me - by imaginative elements I mean like incorporating a central motif, metaphors, similes etc. based of the stimulus. If your entire piece is a narrative it won't be rewarded but OP said they tried a "hybrid" which could be leniently marked based on how...

I prepared for a discursive + info is from a hsc marker - ig we'll see on the day - I'm not advocating for imaginative writing, rather saying that the vagueness of a "discursive" allows a much greater overlap than if it were forced imaginative

Agreed that you can't just put in your narrative and expect to be rewarded but the vagueness of a "discursive" gives a greater leeway to students imo - in the HSC, hybrid discursives with imaginative elements weaved throughout tend to do better than a stock-standard discussion over a generic...

I'm sure they will, discursives in itself can be very vague so as long as you touch on a topic relating to the stimulus, and discuss it through a variety of perspectives even imaginatively I think it will be rewarded.

Discursives should discuss a topic, but given the large amount of students who underprepared for a variety of reasons ie. not taught properly/unaware etc. I'm sure the marking guidelines will account for the discrepancies.