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I received 98% for my Latin 2 U mark and 100% for my latin 3U mark and in neither course did I receive a state placing! I can understand not getting a placing for 2U, but it just seems impossible to not get a placing in 3U considering that my mark was 50/50! Did something go wrong on the...

99.70 Before I received my marks yesterday, I was stressing to even receive 98!

Re: Fishes? I'm first in my class too! I think you're dead wrong! :-P The whole source was meant to be taken literally! Gosh, if you didn't talk about the way in which fisherman catch fish, well, you're screwed!

For the first question, how strictly do you think they'll mark it? Did one have to say "So and so considers historical purpose as such...". My main concern with my essay is that whilst everything was considered in terms of historical purpose, it wasn't explicit. For instance, I spoke at...

Looking back at what I did in the unseens, I think I did three to four mistakes. In the Vergil unseen, I forgot to translate 'Sychaeum' - I left the sentence as "he impious before the altars and blind with the love of gold secretly conquered the incautious with his sword". I can't believe I...

Re: Fish? The way I approached it was that I made E.H. Carr's thoughts on the deliberate omission and emphasis of particular 'fish' (i.e. facts) the centre point of my entire essay. The question was basically asking us to discuss the methodology of historians and how that reflects upon the...

trial papers from other schools.

What happens when the person who comes 1st in the assessment mark does not come first in the hsc exam?

I agree about Rome's Wars of Expansion. Usually, they have a punic question and a general question. This year, both the questions were punic questions - something that really threw me, as I mainly had studied the non-Punic stuff. The questions were so much more specific than what they had...

I doubt you had to talk about all that. The question asked for the role of the agoge. SO the emphasis IMHO had to be placed upon its role in nurturing a sense of obedience and patriotism in Spartan boys. By outlining the different stages, you are not describing its role, but simply outlining...

The question said "Using source x", so I interpreted that I was only meant to talk about what was represented within the source. So I didn't talk about anything else (like bakeries etc.). We didn't really study this in class either and so I just simply described features within the source...