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    Insider practical tips for acing HSC Maths

    纽省数学高考技巧 From our tutor who scored 100 for Extension 2 Mathematics and 99 for Extension 1 Mathematics: “Never forget your basics:– Make sure you know how to integrate and differentiate all your basic functions, and use product and quotient rules; this will form the base of many questions like volumes and motion.– Brush up on your algebra: many questions especially in 3U and 4U require you to do some complex and tedious algebra; many students lose marks here because of careless errors. The best way to minimise these mistakes is to practice. Understanding is key:– Make sure you know where your concepts and formulas are derived from; for example, knowing…

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    Detailed HSC study guide to Advanced English module by module

    Common Module: Texts and Human Experiences The questions you will get here will often be quite vague so your main job will be specifying these vague terms This means unpacking the keywords of the question AND Adding insight or value to the question i.e. your personal interpretation NOT repeating the keywords of the question without saying anything about it e.g. HSC 2019 Paper 1 Sample: Compare how each of the two posters create asense of shared human experience – Often, students fail to define and unpack the concept of ‘shared human experience’, instead, they simply repeat this phrase A way to prepare for the Short Answer section is to have a variety of ideas up…

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    澳洲留学后第一份工作 – 澳洲面试技巧 Top tips for international students seeking for a job after graduation

    Fresh graduates looking for new job, top insider tip from Fan, qualified Actuary and the Founder of Sirius Learning. Chinese version at the end of the page. 毕业后难找工作?英文不好没有面试的自信? 我们的找工作经验和技巧(中文版)在英文版下面。 Entering into the workforce from a degree in Actuarial Studies, dubbed as ‘the best job of the 21st century’ I expected all my classmates to have no issues securing a graduate offer. After all, given the low ‘survival rate’ of the course, wouldn’t the demand far exceed the supply of talent? However to my surprise, in a century where tertiary education is considered the mainstay, the supply of fresh university graduates far exceed the demand from employers. What differentiated those that…

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    Top tips for Physics HSC exams

    Procrastinated too much before HSC? As the exam approaches, we gathered some tips from one of our experienced tutor. Even if you know all of these, a gentle reminder is always helpful. 1. Answer the question – What is the key word that the question is asking of you? Assess the significance of? Analyse the contribution of? Discuss? Identify? Make sure you are completely familiar with each of these key phrases or verbs and how to go about answering a question with each one. Highlight them in your test paper if you need to! 2. Structure – Just because it’s a science subject, does not mean you can write your…

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    Top 5 tips to improve English skills in the Australian professional environment

    Feeling not confident at the work place because of your language skills? Do you refrain from speaking up at meetings as you are not sure if you can say what you need to say appropriately? Feel a bit left out when colleagues go out for coffee and struggle to engage in a conversation? Here are top 5 tips from our experienced English tutor to get you started… Mastering the English spoken in professional environments is a process unique to each individual, different as each office’s and person’s needs will be. But some steps remain universal, and in following them, and adopting a mindset that is always looking to learn, you…