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Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: Ahmad on November 19, 2007, 12:53:53 pm
So who's doing it? Who has registered, because the registering has commenced.

I'm planning on doing this plus coming online.

http://www.vtac.edu.au/common/enter_service.html
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: melanie.dee on November 19, 2007, 12:56:31 pm
i cant decide. im not sure if i want to be woken up by a score which is inevitably going to disapoint me, seeing as how much iv screwed up my exams.

then again. internet really isnt much different, probably just more frustrating and dragging it out.

with the sms.. does it list your subjects and scores, and then your enter down the bottom? like do you have to scroll down to see the enter. cos that culd work for me. i can slowly reveal a study score at a time and ease down to the enter haha. that way i wont be bombarded by disappoint all at once haha
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: Odette on November 19, 2007, 12:56:45 pm
I registered this morning :)
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: Matt89 on November 19, 2007, 12:59:48 pm
Quote from: "melanie.dee"
with the sms.. does it list your subjects and scores, and then your enter down the bottom? like do you have to scroll down to see the enter. cos that culd work for me. i can slowly reveal a study score at a time and ease down to the enter haha. that way i wont be bombarded by disappoint all at once haha


haha no the enter is first, followed by your study scores
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: Ahmad on November 19, 2007, 01:01:08 pm
Quote from: "melanie.dee"
i cant decide. im not sure if i want to be woken up by a score which is inevitably going to disapoint me, seeing as how much iv screwed up my exams.

then again. internet really isnt much different, probably just more frustrating and dragging it out.

with the sms.. does it list your subjects and scores, and then your enter down the bottom? like do you have to scroll down to see the enter. cos that culd work for me. i can slowly reveal a study score at a time and ease down to the enter haha. that way i wont be bombarded by disappoint all at once haha


To wake up implies you went to sleep. Surely you won't be sleeping on ENTER night!

Oh, and I'm not sure about the exact format of the SMS message, but I heard it contains grades (A+/A+/A+ or whatever) along with raw score and your ENTER. Someone confirm? :wink:
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: Pencil on November 19, 2007, 01:01:57 pm
I just registered.
I'll be doing both as well
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: Pencil on November 19, 2007, 01:03:51 pm
Quote from: "Ahmad"

Oh, and I'm not sure about the exact format of the SMS message, but I heard it contains grades (A+/A+/A+ or whatever) along with raw score and your ENTER. Someone confirm? :wink:


It definitely contains grades and rawscores, mine did last year. And I'm pretty sure it contains your scaled scores and enter too, because I remember someone reading theirs out last year
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: ninwa on November 19, 2007, 01:03:57 pm
lol I signed up for the SMS thing last year. Mine looks like this:

Results 2006.
VCE : N ENTER: NA
BM03: A+ D+ B+
Study Score: 20.
MA08: B+ C+ A+
SS: 37.
VCE.


EDIT: so yes, I guess you see your ENTER first. Which is why I'm not signing up for it this year :P I don't want to know my ENTER :(
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: melanie.dee on November 19, 2007, 01:04:53 pm
Quote from: "Matt89"
Quote from: "melanie.dee"
with the sms.. does it list your subjects and scores, and then your enter down the bottom? like do you have to scroll down to see the enter. cos that culd work for me. i can slowly reveal a study score at a time and ease down to the enter haha. that way i wont be bombarded by disappoint all at once haha


haha no the enter is first, followed by your study scores


ah shit haha. gar i dont know what ill do then.

and its true, i highly doubt ill be sleeping. more like getting very drunk, and then checking results with friends.. however this presents two potentially worse possibilities. a) i will have to suffer disapoint AND hangover for the rest of the day and b) i will get 60 and all my friends will get 99 haha. well maybe not so extreme. but more like, ill be the only disappointed one.

we have ages to sign up for sms, so i might leave myself a bit longer to think over it haha
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: Ahmad on November 19, 2007, 01:14:25 pm
Darn. I tried to register but apparently you can't use Optus REV UP credit to sign up. So now I'm gonna recharge -.-
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: cara.mel on November 19, 2007, 01:33:00 pm
Thanks for the reminder! completely forgot about it since yesterday ^_^
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: azhtey on November 19, 2007, 02:14:50 pm
Quote from: "Ahmad"

Oh, and I'm not sure about the exact format of the SMS message, but I heard it contains grades (A+/A+/A+ or whatever) along with raw score and your ENTER. Someone confirm? :wink:


Ive still got my old result on my phone - ill check for u.
This is exactly what my message said:

Results 2006.
VCE : N ENTER: NA
LS03: A+, A+, A+,
Study Score 48.
VCE.

From: 197...(phone number)
6:16am 11-DEC-06
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: azhtey on November 19, 2007, 02:16:50 pm
Quote from: "ninwa"
l
EDIT: so yes, I guess you see your ENTER first. Which is why I'm not signing up for it this year :P I don't want to know my ENTER :(


Thats exactly the same as me. After doing sms last year there is NO WAY im doing it again. It scares the crap out of you!! Im going by the net. Definitely.
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: Toothpaste on November 19, 2007, 02:17:39 pm
Quote from: "azhtey"
Quote from: "Ahmad"

Oh, and I'm not sure about the exact format of the SMS message, but I heard it contains grades (A+/A+/A+ or whatever) along with raw score and your ENTER. Someone confirm? :wink:


Ive still got my old result on my phone - ill check for u.
This is exactly what my message said:

Results 2006.
VCE : N ENTER: NA
LS03: A+, A+, A+,
Study Score 48.
VCE.

From: 197...(phone number)
6:16am 11-DEC-06


:o 6:16am? I'm so tempted to register now... lol.
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: Ahmad on November 19, 2007, 02:22:52 pm
Yep, it takes time to SMS tens of thousands of people, so I guess they spread it out over about an hour.

I just registered. w00t. Now the long wait.  :!:  :P
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: Capricious on November 19, 2007, 02:28:19 pm
Silly question but would it still work if your phone is on international roaming? And would it cost squillions more?
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: ninwa on November 19, 2007, 02:39:38 pm
Quote from: "azhtey"

6:16am 11-DEC-06

 :shock:
mine came at 7:06am :(

but it didn't matter cos I didn't wake up until 8:30 lol
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: Ahmad on November 19, 2007, 02:44:28 pm
Quote from: "ninwa"
Quote from: "azhtey"

6:16am 11-DEC-06

 :shock:
mine came at 7:06am :(

but it didn't matter cos I didn't wake up until 8:30 lol


What the, I thought you'd be up early, I stayed up that night.. well most of it, had like 1 hour of sleep.

And uhm, did you apply for SMS towards the end of the registering period last year? I'm trying to figure out whether applying early corresponds to receiving the SMS early.  :P
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: ninwa on November 19, 2007, 02:47:44 pm
Quote from: "Ahmad"

What the, I thought you'd be up early, I stayed up that night.. well most of it, had like 1 hour of sleep.

And uhm, did you apply for SMS towards the end of the registering period last year? I'm trying to figure out whether applying early corresponds to receiving the SMS early.  :P


I can't remember exactly when I applied but it would have been early. I was overenthusiastic for awhile :roll:

lol, I tried to stay up, got to about 4:30am and was just like, I cbf putting myself through this, I'm so over it.

I didn't stay up in year 10 either, though I barely got any sleep that night and somehow woke up at 7am on the dot :P

Of course it'll be different this year, a lot more is at stake :P I'm planning to pull an all-nighter :)
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: Ahmad on November 19, 2007, 02:57:22 pm
What subject did you do in year 10!?
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: ninwa on November 19, 2007, 03:10:18 pm
Quote from: "Ahmad"
What subject did you do in year 10!?

music <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: Ahmad on November 19, 2007, 03:11:26 pm
That's crazy, year 10 and literally aced it. I hereby announce that you are a freak =P
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: ninwa on November 19, 2007, 03:17:40 pm
Lol. You can't talk Mr Maths Genius :P
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: millstone on November 19, 2007, 03:48:07 pm
Quote from: "Capricious"
Silly question but would it still work if your phone is on international roaming? And would it cost squillions more?

i'd like to know this too.
i'll be in china so will it send to me?
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: ninwa on November 19, 2007, 04:46:24 pm
Quote from: "millstone"
Quote from: "Capricious"
Silly question but would it still work if your phone is on international roaming? And would it cost squillions more?

i'd like to know this too.
i'll be in china so will it send to me?

Why not just find an internet cafe and access your results thru the internet? That's guaranteed to work :)
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: Matt89 on November 19, 2007, 04:57:39 pm
Quote from: "azhtey"
From: 197...(phone number)
6:16am 11-DEC-06


Damn i thought i was fortunate to get mine at 7:05. Did anyone get theirs earlier than 6:16 or later than 7:06 via SMS???
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: azhtey on November 19, 2007, 05:05:06 pm
Quote from: "Matt89"
Quote from: "azhtey"
From: 197...(phone number)
6:16am 11-DEC-06


Damn i thought i was fortunate to get mine at 7:05. Did anyone get theirs earlier than 6:16 or later than 7:06 via SMS???


Guys i duno if my phone was in Daylight Savings or wateva then so it might have been 7:16am but on my phone it definitely said 6:16am. Dunno.
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: Capricious on November 19, 2007, 05:08:11 pm
Quote from: "ninwa"
Quote from: "millstone"
Quote from: "Capricious"
Silly question but would it still work if your phone is on international roaming? And would it cost squillions more?

i'd like to know this too.
i'll be in china so will it send to me?

Why not just find an internet cafe and access your results thru the internet? That's guaranteed to work :)

I'll be in Italy at a relative's confirmation celebration thing. Since with the time difference it'd be about 9:00 pm and said celebration will be at one of the older relly's houses who do not have the internet I'd like to have that option available :P And I don't think there's an internet cafe nearby...
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: SilverBullet on November 19, 2007, 05:49:52 pm
Quote from: "azhtey"
Quote from: "Matt89"
Quote from: "azhtey"
From: 197...(phone number)
6:16am 11-DEC-06


Damn i thought i was fortunate to get mine at 7:05. Did anyone get theirs earlier than 6:16 or later than 7:06 via SMS???


Guys i duno if my phone was in Daylight Savings or wateva then so it might have been 7:16am but on my phone it definitely said 6:16am. Dunno.


Mine came at 6.54 am.
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: millstone on November 19, 2007, 06:35:52 pm
see the thing with an internet cafe is that i would have to get out of bed AND leave my house AND find an internet cafe AND have go home etc.
too lazy
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: cara.mel on November 19, 2007, 06:53:57 pm
Mine came at either 7:09 or 7:11. Can't be bothered checking my phone to get the exact minute
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: Pencil on November 19, 2007, 07:07:31 pm
man you guys all kept your message! I did hold on to mine for a little while, then I was like 'ah time to move on' haha
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: kido_1 on November 19, 2007, 07:12:02 pm
I won't get my scores via SMS. Just the Internet would be fine.

Nervous times ahead  :roll:  :roll:  :roll:  :idea:  :idea:  :?:  :?:
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: joshuamorgan on November 19, 2007, 07:13:37 pm
I'm signing up for both SMS and Web - I'm anticipating that the website will be slow at 7AM, so I want the text message as well... I'm just getting two study scores this year though.
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: kido_1 on November 19, 2007, 07:20:27 pm
I am only getting 2 Study Scores this year as well.

I might wait till 7:30 to access my results though.
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: azhtey on November 19, 2007, 07:27:46 pm
In all honesty i will probably sign up for sms but only as a backup to check and confirm the results that the net reveals. Thats what i found last year u get ur results (eg via sms) and then ur like maybe they made a mistake, so u need a backup to confirm. I think ill keep my mobile off until after i look at the net though lol.

**PS - Do you guys think there are people out there who just dont check their enterscore (not b/c they forget just because they simply dont care)??
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: Ahmad on November 19, 2007, 07:27:47 pm
7.30 and it might still be packed! Come at 6.50 and keep refreshing, that's the best chance you've got I reckon!  :lol:
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: Collin Li on November 19, 2007, 07:31:08 pm
Quote from: "azhtey"
**PS - Do you guys think there are people out there who just dont check their enterscore (not b/c they forget just because they simply dont care)??


Yeah, I know a few people who don't remember their ENTER score because they either didn't check it or they only looked at it briefly, and got into their course, which is what mattered to them.
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: kido_1 on November 19, 2007, 07:33:27 pm
As long as you get into the course that you want to the ENTEr score is just another number. A number which can get you glory among relatives and friends for a month and then it will all be forgotten.
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: maxleng on November 19, 2007, 07:39:42 pm
Quote from: "melanie.dee"
i cant decide. im not sure if i want to be woken up by a score which is inevitably going to disapoint me, seeing as how much iv screwed up my exams.

then again. internet really isnt much different, probably just more frustrating and dragging it out.

with the sms.. does it list your subjects and scores, and then your enter down the bottom? like do you have to scroll down to see the enter. cos that culd work for me. i can slowly reveal a study score at a time and ease down to the enter haha. that way i wont be bombarded by disappoint all at once haha


lol our teachers were like if you get a bad score just go back to sleep.
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: kingmar on November 19, 2007, 07:57:58 pm
Didn't the site crash for an hour last year?

Log on at 6:45 and keep refreshing. It generally opens just a little before 7:00 am - 7:01 am and you're screwed.
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: Matt89 on November 19, 2007, 08:11:18 pm
Using the interwebs sounds so troublesome. SMS results are so simple. You dont even have to get out of bed!
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: Pencil on November 19, 2007, 08:12:10 pm
Quote from: "joshuamorgan"
I'm signing up for both SMS and Web


you don't have to actually sign up for the web though, right??
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: millstone on November 19, 2007, 08:33:58 pm
last year for some reason i thought they gave you your score at 9am?
then i checked at around 8:45 and kept refreshing and i didn't get to see my score til 9:15ish stupid vcaa
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: ninwa on November 19, 2007, 08:35:56 pm
Quote from: "millstone"
see the thing with an internet cafe is that i would have to get out of bed AND leave my house AND find an internet cafe AND have go home etc.
too lazy

True that :P but your ENTER score is at stake!!!!1111

... I wouldn't bother either lol


One of my friends is going to Italy, and apparently 7am here is midnight over there so that's when she'll have to check. Also, she'll have a bunch of relatives around asking her what she got :P I'd hate that! I want to check my score in private :wink:
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: kido_1 on November 19, 2007, 08:54:52 pm
I also want to check my Stusy Scores in private.

I just need some sort of peace and loneliness when i am so nervous about what scores I achieved.
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: joshuamorgan on November 19, 2007, 08:59:44 pm
Quote from: "goosefraba"
Quote from: "joshuamorgan"
I'm signing up for both SMS and Web


you don't have to actually sign up for the web though, right??


No, you login with your student number and VTAC PIN on the day. Sorry, I could of written that better, too lazy :P
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: kido_1 on November 19, 2007, 09:03:18 pm
If you dont have a VTAC pin (i.e if you are in year 11) you just use your birth date.

Eg/ March 16 would give:  0316
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: Matt89 on November 19, 2007, 09:20:50 pm
Quote from: "kido_1"
Eg/ March 16 would give:  0316


wouldnt March 16 be '1603' ???
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: kingmar on November 19, 2007, 09:25:33 pm
Quote from: "Matt89"
Quote from: "kido_1"
Eg/ March 16 would give:  0316


wouldnt March 16 be '1603' ???


'Tis lol.

It's 1603.
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: azhtey on November 19, 2007, 10:34:16 pm
Quote from: "kido_1"
If you dont have a VTAC pin (i.e if you are in year 11) you just use your birth date.

Eg/ March 16 would give:  0316


Only in America...
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: asa.hoshi on November 19, 2007, 11:35:23 pm
you can log on to the VCE results page at around 6:50am. thats when I logged in last year. my mates got their enters on the VTAC site before 7.00am. when they tried again just after 7 they couldn't. haha.
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: azhtey on November 20, 2007, 09:35:08 am
Quote from: "asa.hoshi"
you can log on to the VCE results page at around 6:50am. thats when I logged in last year. my mates got their enters on the VTAC site before 7.00am. when they tried again just after 7 they couldn't. haha.


I think the delay might make it better cos u dont reveal how u didnt make ur desired course for 20mins longer or so.
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: gulamali on November 20, 2007, 06:15:49 pm
ill be in saudi when we get our results :S damn gotta check the time differences .
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: kido_1 on November 20, 2007, 06:48:02 pm
Quote from: "azhtey"
Quote from: "kido_1"
If you dont have a VTAC pin (i.e if you are in year 11) you just use your birth date.

Eg/ March 16 would give:  0316


Only in America...


Man, silly of me. Another example of a 'silly mistake'.

Sorry guys, March 16 would be 1603 not 0316
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: melodrama on November 25, 2007, 09:38:40 am
i wanna check my scores in private first, and then break the news to my parents. i wouldnt be able to cope with them reacting and judging me over my shoulder while i get the number that summarises my 13 years of education.
Title: ENTER via SMS
Post by: azhtey on November 25, 2007, 10:00:47 am
Quote from: "Spirited Sloth"
i wanna check my scores in private first, and then break the news to my parents. i wouldnt be able to cope with them reacting and judging me over my shoulder while i get the number that summarises my 13 years of education.


I agree but i dont think i have to worry - my parents wouldnt look over my shoulder they would wait for me to tell them.
Title: Re: ENTER via SMS
Post by: Eriny on December 02, 2007, 01:53:55 pm
To those asking about international roaming: you'll have to check with your service provider as well as the results reporting service, but I'm with 3 and when I was overseas I received text messages from Australia. It's a little more expensive than usual but not by very much.
Title: Re: ENTER via SMS
Post by: squance on December 07, 2007, 09:22:28 am
Hmmm..im think Im gonna register for the SMS thingy because I'll be able to have access to my results quicker or something...then I don't have to go on the internet because everyone will be trying to get on that VTAC website....

The only thing well, is that I have 0 cents on my phone and I'm broke at the moment :'(
Title: Re: ENTER via SMS
Post by: Juztine on December 07, 2007, 11:51:17 am
I'm waiting till dec 18th with a friend and opening it together. lol -__-v
Title: Re: ENTER via SMS
Post by: costargh on December 07, 2007, 12:22:36 pm
Will you guys be more pissed off if you get your required ENTER but to horribly in say your top 1 or 2 pet subjects

OR

would you be more pissed off if you aced your top 1 or 2 pet subjects but flunked on the others and got a Lower ENTER
Title: Re: ENTER via SMS
Post by: golids on December 07, 2007, 12:33:16 pm
Will you guys be more pissed off if you get your required ENTER but to horribly in say your top 1 or 2 pet subjects

OR

would you be more pissed off if you aced your top 1 or 2 pet subjects but flunked on the others and got a Lower ENTER

definitely second option
Title: Re: ENTER via SMS
Post by: golids on December 07, 2007, 12:34:05 pm
Hmmm..im think Im gonna register for the SMS thingy because I'll be able to have access to my results quicker or something...then I don't have to go on the internet because everyone will be trying to get on that VTAC website....

The only thing well, is that I have 0 cents on my phone and I'm broke at the moment :'(

do you reckon if you used one of those free sms services it would work?
Title: Re: ENTER via SMS
Post by: Daniel15 on December 07, 2007, 02:09:42 pm
Hmmm..im think Im gonna register for the SMS thingy because I'll be able to have access to my results quicker or something...then I don't have to go on the internet because everyone will be trying to get on that VTAC website....

The only thing well, is that I have 0 cents on my phone and I'm broke at the moment :'(

do you reckon if you used one of those free sms services it would work?
Usually, those free SMS services can only send messages, not receive them. So you could probably register, but it would not be any good.
You could try the ICQ one I suppose, it's send and receive. No idea whether they still have it though (I last used ICQ around 2004 :P)

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would you be more pissed off if you aced your top 1 or 2 pet subjects but flunked on the others and got a Lower ENTER
I've got a feeling this will happen to me... We'll see. :P