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he collaborated with other scientists so that they could get more optimum results in cracking and purifying propylene.
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nit
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the easiet thing is to make up a type of chemist as opposed to any specific names and make up a few roles. It's not that hard. Bsing about chromatography is pretty simple.
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i find it amusing that simply 'identifying' a scientist would get u a mark wen it is obvioius that a lot of people would be making it up. The teachers couldnt srsly be going around trying to verify whether such a scientist exsted.
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I somehow doubt that they would ask for a specific scientist in the HSC exam, for that very reason. And as I said in an earlier post, I think it's the most trivial part of the syllabus...Pointy Ears said:
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lol, i bsed a name, and made him the screener for the water filtration process,nit said:
now i think about it i dun think scientists does that, as screening just remove dead animals and large shit in water...wtf
hope teacher wouldn;t mind...
anywayz what is chromatography. never heard of it. please explain to me
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I doubt you would lose marks, coz the examiners wouldn't go and verify that every chemist mentioned is real...that said, I also doubt that they would ask it in the first place (in the actual HSC exam) for that very reason.ar3nbe said:
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Out of curiousity, what sort of mark in this trial would indicate the possibility of achieving a band 6?
Danni07
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I'm assuming that since you're discussing the exam, there's no 'security' period.To be honest I haven't bothere the wade through the 13 pages, so sorry if this has been asked before, but were you allowed to remove the papers from the exam room. I have my chemistry exam on Thursday (my teacher has compiled it himself) and I'd like some past papers to do, although I've already worked through the past HSC papers, and I think that CSSA papers would be the best things to move onto as they'll be as close to the real thing as you can get. So anyway, can I get a hold of any past CSSA papers from 2003 onwards?
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It's hard to say because the exams change in difficulty from year to year. To get an accurate raw band cut-off you'd actually have to sit down and compare it with the set of standard set by BOS. However, given that the 2005 CSSA paper was quite reasonable I'm assuming that it would be aligned similarly to past HSC papers. The MC section was slightly more difficult than in past HSC papers...so maybe ~77-80/100 would have got you a Band 6. Don't take my word for it though as I have no solid evidence to back my estimate up with...I emphasise this last point.Pointy Ears said:
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Unfortunately I don't have a scanner so I can't post up any papers. Try the Resources section on Bored of Studies...there are quite a few trial papers, though I'm not sure if they're CSSA papers.Danni07 said:
xx__savannah
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Hm, my Chem teacher today was saying that if there was a name of a scientist they hadn't heard before or something, they would check it. So is she bsing? Or is it just a safe thing to say considering the chances of it being in a HSC are v. unlikely, trying to dicourage the slackers in my class from making one up this year and re-using it next year (accelerated class)?
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I would say it's unlikely that they would examine it at all. However, I can't say with certainty that they wouldn't because they could since anything on the syllabus is theoretically examinable. And I highly doubt that the HSC examiners would go and check each scientist...there's just not enough time.xx__savannah said:
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hey guys just wondering what you thoughy was the HARDEST and BIGGEST questions on the paper?
lol, just describe the questions coz i cant remember the question numbers. lol.
lol, just describe the questions coz i cant remember the question numbers. lol.
nit
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have you done the exam yet?
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yeh but i found it very hard, just wona see where other are atnit said:
what did u think anyway?
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Probably >86 would be the 5/6 cut-off, I would judge.Pointy Ears said:
However, a lot can happen in the eight weekends between Trials and HSC.
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does any1 have a copy of the chem paper that can be posted up?
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I'd say less. A student probably wouldn't perform any worse in the HSC exam relative to their performance in the trials. I'd say they would, in fact, improve their question-answering ability and knowledge in the nine weeks following the trials. I'd estimate that ~75-80 raw would align to a Band 6, maybe slightly more. Given the relative difficulty of the MC section in this year's trial paper (my opinion only), I'd say that a student would be on track for a Band 6 if they got around 80-82 in the CSSA paper.Captain pi said: