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WHERE ARE YOU UP2? (take 3) (2 Viewers)
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lol.shafqat said:
Looking at the HSC papers, it seems pretty hard though.
Was Ext 2 Maths a bludge, or was that more intense than the other subjects?
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You dropped Adv English?
ME2 is bludgey, IMHO. Just read over things in class, maybe do some exercises. Then at home you just do maybe a few revision/practice questions each week and ensure you don't fall behind. For exams, do lots of practice Q's. Only 2 classes per week, more favourable student-teacher ratio, et cetera.
Something like Chemistry is not a bludge for me. Lots and lots of dotpoints summaries to do, some hard concepts, lots of details, lots of homework...
Obviously this does not correlate with perceived difficulty. It'd be interesting to find out how much time most people actually spend on ME2 compared to chemistry. Then comparing this with band 6 results between subjects you could get a rough indicator of real difficulty.
ME2 is bludgey, IMHO. Just read over things in class, maybe do some exercises. Then at home you just do maybe a few revision/practice questions each week and ensure you don't fall behind. For exams, do lots of practice Q's. Only 2 classes per week, more favourable student-teacher ratio, et cetera.
Something like Chemistry is not a bludge for me. Lots and lots of dotpoints summaries to do, some hard concepts, lots of details, lots of homework...
Obviously this does not correlate with perceived difficulty. It'd be interesting to find out how much time most people actually spend on ME2 compared to chemistry. Then comparing this with band 6 results between subjects you could get a rough indicator of real difficulty.
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I think he means he dropped extension English.
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I find maths extension 2 easier than chemistry, this could partly be due to the lack of homework I have been doing lately, and not bothering to do the work (in chemistry). I find I get alot more work in chemistry than any other subject, it seems hard to keep up with the homework you get for it (and I haven't been keeping up), let alone complete dot point summaries!Slide Rule said:
The chemistry part of chemistry is pretty easy, it's just knowing the historical developement of a concept, the implications of that concept for industry and then the effects of that implication on society which is the killer. Even if it's an easy question those long answers always manage to be 5 marks and there's always that little detail which, while it seemed insignificant at the time you were learning it (or not learning it as the case may be), comes back to bite you in the marking criteria. Dammit...
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lol...as Trev said, I dropped Ext 1 English...Ext 1 ---> StandardSlide Rule said:
I'd say MX2 is the least bludgy of my subjects...about 40% of my time is spent on doing MX2 questions when my teacher gives our class hard exercises...2.5 lessons/week for me.Slide Rule said:
True...I seem to spend less time on Chemistry than MX2, but it does require some time to learn the dotpoints - at least the syllabus is easy to follow.Slide Rule said:
MX2: 40%, English: 20%, Eco: 15%, Chem: 10%, Business: 10%, SOR: 5%Slide Rule said:
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I don't know that MX2 is easier than Chemistry...imo it's more interesting than Chem. But I do like the Chem syllabus (as ishq said).Trev said:I find maths extension 2 easier than chemistry, this could partly be due to the lack of homework I have been doing lately, and not bothering to do the work (in chemistry). I find I get alot more work in chemistry than any other subject, it seems hard to keep up with the homework you get for it (and I haven't been keeping up), let alone complete dot point summaries!
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Just to add to this conversation, MX2 wasn't hard as such, but required a drilling in of all the concepts to make sure that I was as fully prepared as I could be for the final exam - ie this meant a fair few questions each night and constituted maybe 1.5 hours' worth of work. Chemistry, which was simply the regurgitation of the dotpoints was generally 0 work apart from exam-time, when I prepared dot-points for the exam and used that for every ensuing exam on that topic. Physics was 0 homework with a rushed study of dot-points and concepts just before the exam. For German continuers I might have done about 5 hrs' work the whole year.... Eng adv was really only the other major source of work, with constant essays/ preparation of notes.
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Yep...I made a few posts on that in another thread...MX2 makes 4U sound coolishq said:Ooooh "MX2" is the word of the day...
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What did you end up with in English? (if you don't mind me asking).nit said:
Did it take a lot of practise to refine your essays...is it necessary to do more than one practice essay each week for a mid-Band 6?
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As in school?shafqat said:
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Which of your English marks didn't count?shafqat said:lol!
my study would mirror yours exactly nithin
but sub latin for german
+ a little extra for 4 eng
(which didnt count
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Btw. shafqat...
How many people @ SGS do MX2?
How many people @ SGS do MX2?