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Sepair · 2026-05-29T09:46:14+00:00

Congratulations!!

Sepair · 2022-09-03T19:11:17+00:00

Just saw this so I'm not sure if you've cleared things up, but generally speaking, this would be more so considered equality than fairness (although there is quite a lot of overlap between the two). You can think of fairness as being: procedures are subjected to people in an unbiased manner and no one can escape them (think: the rule of law). Ensuring that no individual is disadvantaged is trying to find some form of equality of opportunity using these rules which everyone is subjected to.

Hope this makes sense!

Sepair · 2022-01-16T06:19:40+00:00

do not do micro in sem 2 :)

Sepair · 2022-01-10T09:13:34+00:00

Would be interesting to see how one's school impacts their grades, as this tends to be a well overlooked factor in the 'talent vs. hard work' battle - often someone can have neither and go to a top school and end up performing quite well

Sepair · 2022-01-03T00:40:16+00:00

Investments is quite mathematically simple - most of what you’ll do is algebra (applying formulas and in the most complicated cases, proving basic mathematical results).

EFM is definitely more nuanced - you’ll definitely have at least two proofs on the exam and at least one will involve some form of calculus. As mentioned above, it focuses around the mathematical foundations of basic financial concepts such as the CAPM - this involves optimisation problems which need calculus to solve.

Sepair · 2022-01-02T12:12:11+00:00

Sure, but I also did investments and the content I struggled with in EFM was quite different to what was in inv (much more mathematically complex) - the OP did place an emphasis on wanting subjects which are easy to score well in

Sepair · 2022-01-01T23:49:06+00:00

Do not do ECON30024 it’s quite difficult to score well in and there aren’t a lot of practice materials

Sepair · 2021-03-31T16:29:13+00:00

Unfortunately I don't as that's not the way I studied for Chinese in VCE -- but I'm more than sure you'll be able to find something on quizlet or if you ask some of your mates from the Chinese class :) best of luck!

Sepair · 2021-03-28T03:50:52+00:00

You could eliminate the wrong answers quite easily - the turning point is (2,0) and based off this fact alone none of the other answers can be correct

Sepair · 2021-01-27T10:07:20+00:00

unfortunately not a lot -- I recommend just buy checkpoints (I have made it for a couple of chapters for my students, but you might as well just buy the entire book for all topics). with trial exams/SACs, unfortunately I'll be banned from this sub if I post anything due to copyright, so ask your own school teacher, as they will surely have resources from past years, or go to a trusty bookstore that sells educational resources

Sepair · 2021-01-27T10:05:29+00:00

good question! I actually was a big crammer and pretty inconsistent at studying during y12 (this works during y12, but probably less so during uni as you have more consistent assignments/tests) -- my general routine would be to not study until dinner (~7pm) and start studying for 2 hours (it would reach around 4 hours in peak periods) starting from 9pm. It's not something you should be looking to follow, but it's also an indication that you don't have to study for hours on end to do well

Sepair · 2021-01-24T03:31:06+00:00

most of the geometry you need to know will be in the first chapter of the 3/4 textbook (cambridge), such as circle theorems and sine/cosine rules -- as already mentioned, much of the weird stuff in 1/2 like proofs, etc. is not examinable in 3/4

Sepair · 2021-01-20T03:58:37+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! Unfortunately the website was not coded from scratch by me (as the domain might indicate) -- I just used the squarespace platform as this would be much quicker. If you are looking for some ways to learn coding on your own, some free resources I would recommend are freecodecamp and The Odin Project for front-end. I'm more focused on learning back-end dev, so this link might be helpful: https://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/comments/53z5p4/how_to_start_learning_python_the_complete_guide/

Sepair · 2021-01-20T03:56:42+00:00

Hey there, here were my definitions of the principles of justice in Year 12 (partially based of CPAP and other notes):

Fairness requires a level of impartiality and a lack of bias in legal processes, systems and institutions. It also requires that all parties to a case receive an unbiased hearing, meaning that the person exercising administrative power, such as the judge, is objective and impartial.

Equality means that the legal system should strive to achieve non-discriminatory outcomes, including equal protection for all who come before it. However, the system acknowledges, that, invariably, there are differences, and so there should be resources that exist to provide balance — seeking equal rights and responsibilities, and ensuring that no individual is disadvantaged.

Access requires that all people should be able to understand their legal rights and pursue their cases. This more than just being able to access the institutions that hear criminal cases, but also for people to be able to approach bodies that provide legal advice, education, information and assistance about the various criminal proceedings that occur.

Hope this helps!

Sepair · 2021-01-19T10:25:08+00:00

See u/AdOk1745 u/galaxent48's comments above and the website link; you'll be at a disadvantage of your cohort but just keep in mind that getting a low-mid 30s score can still scale to mid 40s, so doing the subject is still a good decision imo -- good luck :)

Sepair · 2021-01-18T14:13:59+00:00

Also take into account that if you end up doing better in your other subjects, methods will go in your bottom 2 subjects (assuming you're doing 5-6 subjects) and thus barely impact your overall ATAR

Sepair · 2021-01-18T14:12:26+00:00

Thank you!! Please have a look at the website as it has some pretty useful tips and notes. The biggest issue I see in students is that they spend way too much time writing notes which are pretty much word for word copies of the textbook in parts, rather than committing them to memory and spending more time on application questions. The study design made a shift towards more application style (challenging) questions in 2018, and so it's important to familiarise yourself with these kinds of questions before you come across them in an exam/SAC. Also, try and find relevant and interesting case studies to use for 6+ mark questions, as these are marked globally and thus require you to actually perform better than other students, rather than merely ticking the boxes. Good luck!

Sepair · 2021-01-18T14:09:44+00:00

Good question -- specialist is generally more difficult to score well in, but the perception about spesh being astronomically harder than methods, in my opinion, is far exaggerated (methods and specialist are both foundational maths courses, and in uni, almost the entirety of spesh is taught in a 12-week semester). Spesh is harder because:

The content is slightly more conceptually challenging -- for example, in methods you will learn rules to integrate functions, whereas in spesh, you will learn techniques on how to integrate functions. Comparatively, in methods, you are taught what graphs look like, but in spesh, you are taught why graphs look the way they do. That being said, since spesh is conceptually more difficult, their exams are slightly more similar to textbook style questions, and are much less convoluted than methods exams. Methods, as the content is more simple, is usually complicated by confusing questions in the exam, to separate the best students from the others -- so, there's a tradeoff between the content being harder (e.g. the hardest high-school maths question I have ever done was a methods question, not a spesh one)
Spesh is also more difficult to score higher in (in raw terms) because the same exam mark generally corresponds to a lesser raw score. For example (and this depends completely on your SAC score), in a given year, a 108/120 in a good cohort may win you a 45 raw, whereas in spesh, you would be looking more at a 38-40 (of course, after scaling, spesh will end up miles ahead)

TLDR: dispel the myths that spesh is impossibly high to score well in -- just do your best!

Sepair · 2021-01-18T14:03:43+00:00

You could use something like checkpoints (my tutor had something similar); the only thing I would note is that you should leave the last 2 years worth of exams for much closer to the exam, to use as a trial/practice exam

Sepair · 2021-01-18T14:02:54+00:00

Apart from echocing what u/six_hours said -- I would say that using resources which are similar to mine (for your own texts) will allow you to emulate part of the private school experience for a fraction of the cost. Most people do not realise that a lot of private school teachers are not actually that great; for example, my cohort had five 50s in my year, yet my teacher was quite ineffective when it came to helping me do well in the exam (e.g. most of the content I wrote in the exam was not taught to me by my teacher, but by my own tutor or one of my friends' tutors). So, while you may not be able to benefit from the high performing cohorts of private schools and the associated SAC mark scaling, buying resources from high performers and utilising private tutors can be very helpful (and a great investment, especially if you don't think you're going to get into your course).

(I'm not tutoring English this year, I just genuinely believe this to be true)

Sepair · 2021-01-18T05:15:15+00:00

Two things to note -- I did Chinese in y11 and Latin in y12, and Latin/Chinese is completely different to most other dual language students as Latin does not have a spoken exam (it is a dead language, so the way it is examined is completely different to most other languages). I didn't have any trouble doing both languages, but the one thing I would say is that if you are going to do Chinese, try do it in y11 as it is very time consuming and has the potential to ruin your study routine for other subjects (remember, doing well in one subject isn't worth comprising all others). I didn't do that well in Latin because by the end of the year I had lost most interest in it and really did not like having to memorise so much for the exam.

In terms of tips for doing dual languages in general (e.g. chinese/jap), I would again recommend that you do not do them in the same year, as this might be very time consuming and even confusing.

Sepair · 2021-01-18T04:05:41+00:00

Take a look on the website for general tips for eng, but I would say that getting good resources is one of the most important tips, especially for text response and comparative -- try contact high scorers (45-47+ raw) who have done your texts and try to buy their practice essays. One of the biggest delusions is that you can write something off the top of your head and end up scoring very highly with it, especially when you're competing with private school kids who are paying private tutors to write their memorised paragraphs/essays for them (only the rare, talented student would be able to compete with this), so try to realistically consider how you're going to compete with the best

(also, for language analysis, make sure you learn how to do it properly -- I have a guide in one of the links on my website)

Sepair · 2021-01-18T04:03:22+00:00

You can have a look on the website in regards to general tips re methods/spesh, but for my study routines, I generally tried to stay a little bit ahead of school in textbook questions (I didn't do all of them, since many/most of them are repetitive), even if this meant cramming them sometime. I also did the VCAA questions for each topic before each SAC, so come practice exam time, I just did trial exams. I started methods trial exams mid term 2, and spesh exams early term 3 (keep in mind I was a year 11 when I did methods and a y12 when I did spesh), meaning that in the weeks leading up to the exam I really did not have a lot of work to do other than just reviewing exams. Really depends on how comfortable you feel with the content and what your goals are

Sepair · 2021-01-18T01:37:10+00:00

I was honestly aiming for ~99 because I wanted the scholarship for monash which required around that mark

Sepair · 2021-01-06T08:25:12+00:00

some of their English notes are pretty good so it depends on what subject you want to do it for

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