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VCE Stuff => Victorian Technical Score Discussion => Topic started by: boysenberry on July 26, 2010, 06:01:31 pm

Title: How tight are schools with the 80% attendance requirement?
Post by: boysenberry on July 26, 2010, 06:01:31 pm
If you get less than 80% attendance for a particular subject during the course of a semester do you automatically fail that subject? How lenient are schools with poor attendance? just wanting to know coz loads of my friends have been missing out on loads of classes...if they get less than 80% attendance for a particular subject, will they get no study score for the subject?
Are students who have less than 80% attendance usually allowed to sit their exams?
Title: Re: How tight are schools with the 80% attendance requirement?
Post by: _avO on July 26, 2010, 06:02:25 pm
Well my school is a public school and last year a guy I know got 60% attendance and didnt attend the unit 2 exam for chem, and he still passed the unit :/ No idea how this system works anymore

Unfortunately I don't know of anyone who has under 80% attendance this year (Unit 3 and 4's)
Title: Re: How tight are schools with the 80% attendance requirement?
Post by: fady_22 on July 26, 2010, 06:08:39 pm
It's a 90 percent attendance at my school... apparently people have actually failed subjects because of it. I don't think its an automatic fail; they interview you and determine whether or not you should be failed.
Title: Re: How tight are schools with the 80% attendance requirement?
Post by: Cthulhu on July 26, 2010, 06:10:23 pm
what if you get pragnant and haf 2 luk afta a babby?
Title: Re: How tight are schools with the 80% attendance requirement?
Post by: superflya on July 26, 2010, 06:15:54 pm

what if you get pragnant and haf 2 luk afta a babby?

den u hap to do da failin im so solly dez no oda opshunz..not ma fault u haf da babby!
Title: Re: How tight are schools with the 80% attendance requirement?
Post by: schmalex on July 26, 2010, 06:20:29 pm
I dunno but I'm pretty sure I'm under 80% and plenty of other people are away more than me. Although I don't think I'm going to fail because my lowest SAC mark so far in any subject is 85%
Title: Re: How tight are schools with the 80% attendance requirement?
Post by: iNerd on July 26, 2010, 06:36:33 pm
i srsly don't understand this rule; as long as you pass the exams who cares how many classes you attend? :idiot2:
Title: Re: How tight are schools with the 80% attendance requirement?
Post by: andy456 on July 26, 2010, 07:21:38 pm
Our school has made it 90% attendence our we "fail"
but no-one ever fails....
a few go to unscored but i dont know if thats cause of attendance
Title: Re: How tight are schools with the 80% attendance requirement?
Post by: naved_s9994 on July 26, 2010, 07:25:43 pm
It's a 90 percent attendance at my school... apparently people have actually failed subjects because of it. I don't think its an automatic fail; they interview you and determine whether or not you should be failed.

Yeah, its a 90% at my school too.
I think its stupid though seriously. Because 90% attendence, still is approximately, like roughly 5 weeks off?

Thats HEAPS!

I agree with iNerd, its silly!
Title: Re: How tight are schools with the 80% attendance requirement?
Post by: Aqualim on July 26, 2010, 07:46:10 pm
I'd rather have days off in year twelve, and you should only be required at school if you have assessment tasks due and the rest are optional. This will give us a lot of time to study, and potentially do better in our exams. Similar concept to Uni really.
Title: Re: How tight are schools with the 80% attendance requirement?
Post by: Russ on July 26, 2010, 07:52:09 pm
I'd rather have days off in year twelve, and you should only be required at school if you have assessment tasks due and the rest are optional. This will give us a lot of time to study, and potentially do better in our exams. Similar concept to Uni really.

There are attendance requirements at uni as well. Requiring students to be at school is, as far as I'm concerned, the right thing to do. I suppose how the school handles those under the hurdle is different between schools, but I imagine your friends would need to justify their absence.
Title: Re: How tight are schools with the 80% attendance requirement?
Post by: akira88 on July 26, 2010, 08:13:08 pm
90% at my school too. Not very tight though- they make it seem like it, but seriously, I know so many people who HARDLY ever attend class yet they still pass.... it's just all empty threats. I think they just have it just to ensure you attend classes :S
Title: Re: How tight are schools with the 80% attendance requirement?
Post by: sgeorge on July 26, 2010, 08:15:07 pm
It's 90% at our school, and it's enforced.
But no one ever goes under, unless they've been away sick for a while. If that happens, the school just allows us to have make-up sessions with our teacher whenever we have time.
Title: Re: How tight are schools with the 80% attendance requirement?
Post by: Russ on July 26, 2010, 08:16:19 pm
^^
I spent some time away from school in year 12 and when I got back my classics teacher told me not to worry, that he'd marked me as present anyway.
Title: Re: How tight are schools with the 80% attendance requirement?
Post by: n.f on July 26, 2010, 08:16:55 pm
My school has a 3 truancy/10 'real' absences policy per semester. After that you are supposed to fail but each it probably goes quite a bit higher (due to make up classes aka detentions). Some people have been failed on truancies though.
Title: Re: How tight are schools with the 80% attendance requirement?
Post by: akira88 on July 26, 2010, 08:18:16 pm
It's 90% at our school, and it's enforced.
But no one ever goes under, unless they've been away sick for a while. If that happens, the school just allows us to have make-up sessions with our teacher whenever we have time.
Private school?
Title: Re: How tight are schools with the 80% attendance requirement?
Post by: coletrain on July 26, 2010, 09:41:16 pm
my school is really tight and says that you need 96% attendance otherwise they wont pass you
Title: Re: How tight are schools with the 80% attendance requirement?
Post by: sgeorge on July 27, 2010, 05:19:32 pm
It's 90% at our school, and it's enforced.
But no one ever goes under, unless they've been away sick for a while. If that happens, the school just allows us to have make-up sessions with our teacher whenever we have time.
Private school?

Yep. Good guess :p