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How To Maximise Pre-Exam Study
During the HSC, you have multiple exams in a small period, and you'll be better prepared and more confident about some than others. Which approaches give the best returns with the least time requirements? What's going to be most effective? How do you hammer down the weak spots without losing touch ...
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3 Ways To Start Your Term 4 Exam Preparation Now
Whatever grade you are in, at some point in in Term 4 you are going to sit your end-of-year exams, and the school holidays are the perfect time to...
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Homework vs Study: Everything You Need To Know
Homework and study. The two things that all students have in common, no matter where they live, or what school they go to. But what is the real...
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Understanding The Changes To HSC History
We've talked about the Stronger HSC Standards initiative and how it impacts the teacher of English, Maths and the Sciences, and how it better...
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Understanding The Changes To HSC English
This week the Stronger HSC Standards initiative was announced, with the intention of improving HSC outcomes for NSW students completing their senior schooling.
Three Ways to Avoid Plagiarism
When you're submitting lots of assignments, it's tempting to just copy a snippet of what someone else has said and claim that as your own work. As tempting as it is to take a short…
How To Take Awesome Notes In Class
Good study notes make study quicker, easier, and more effective. Here we will go through how to take notes in class, how to organise your notes and how to write good notes.
Pluto: The Last Place We've Never Been
Tthe science of Pluto is important - no person alive today on our blue-green marble will ever again see the surface of another world imaged for the very first time.
Semicolon Tattoos And The Power Of Punctuation
For those struggling with mental health issues such as depression and anxiety there are many points in the sentence where it feels like we could use a full stop. We don't have to…
Three Ways To Inspire Your Children's Writing
With WriteOn 2015 - the creative writing competition for primary school students in NSW - announced, now seems like the perfect time to talk about how best to inspire your young ch…
America's New Poet Laureate, Juan Felipe Herrera
Juan Felipe Herrera has been announced as America's new poet laureate, and he is a fantastic choice. His poems have resonance here in Australia, especially now as we struggle with …
Techniquely Correct: The Opposite Of Personification
This week we're talking about personification and, even more interestingly, the opposite of personification.
Dialogue and dinosaurs: A critical analysis of Jurassic Park
Fiach Smyth shares his critical analysis of one the scenes from Jurassic Park, and shows how you analyse dialogue in a film - something which a lot of students struggle with.