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VCE Stuff => Victorian Education Discussion => Topic started by: jsimmo on May 10, 2008, 11:20:59 am

Title: What is your schools best VCE subject?
Post by: jsimmo on May 10, 2008, 11:20:59 am
What is the VCE subject that gets the most 40+ at your school?

At mine these are the rankings:

- Media (top 5 in state)
- Physical Education (top 15 in state)
- Pyschology (top 30 in state)

Worst: Further Mathematics :(


The rankings are probablly a bit ambiguous but all the data is according to: http://rapidshare.com/files/80030201/Study_Scores__07.rar.html

- Download file, extract it and then open the subject files. You can even find your school file to see your top ranked students for 2007
Title: Re: What is your schools best VCE subject?
Post by: Rietie on May 10, 2008, 11:41:26 am
An error has occured:
File not found


Well that was helpful. Not.
Title: Re: What is your schools best VCE subject?
Post by: RD on May 10, 2008, 11:43:36 am
The link has "..."'s in it. Didn't copy it right..
Title: Re: What is your schools best VCE subject?
Post by: jsimmo on May 10, 2008, 11:43:47 am
EDIT: proper link added
Title: Re: What is your schools best VCE subject?
Post by: Rietie on May 10, 2008, 12:18:00 pm
Okay. Here are the numbers of above 40's (that I could find) for some of the subjects my school does (keep in mind that we have year levels of a bit less than 100):
English (38)
Art (10)
Studio Art (10)
Literature (10)
HHD (7)
Chemistry (6)
Geography (6)
Legal Studies (5)
Further Maths (5)
Maths Methods (5)
National Politics (4)
French (4)
Music Solo Performance (3)
Theatre Studies (3)
Indonesian (2)
Specialist Maths (2)
Revolutions (2)
Physics (2)
Biology (2)
PE (1)
Texts and Traditions (1)
Title: Re: What is your schools best VCE subject?
Post by: cara.mel on May 10, 2008, 12:34:44 pm
Oooh, mine is equal first for english language total (10), so out of 31 kids that's pretty good
(although macrob beat us in terms of getting 50s etc, as to be expected)
Title: Re: What is your schools best VCE subject?
Post by: RD on May 10, 2008, 01:30:45 pm
Further Maths (4)
Biology (1)
IT: Applications (1)

Damn.. my school really does suck.
Title: Re: What is your schools best VCE subject?
Post by: AppleXY on May 10, 2008, 01:43:10 pm
ha no way. My schools worse. I think the yr11s did better than the 12s (in 2007)
Title: Re: What is your schools best VCE subject?
Post by: jess3254 on May 10, 2008, 03:10:08 pm
The best subjects at my school are psychology and English. The worst is religion and society, which recieved no scores over 40.

List of VCE subjects and number of students who achieved over 40:

Psychology - 39 students
English and ESL- 37 students
Further Maths - 16 students
Business management - 14 students
Visual Communications and Design - 12 students
Maths methods - 11 students
Information technology – 10 students
Biology - 8 students
Literature - 8 students
Legal studies - 7 students
Studio arts - 7 students
Physical Education - 6 students
Chemistry - 5 students
History (revs) - 4 students
Music - 4 students
Chinese FL - 4 students
Theatre Studies - 4 students
Hospitality VET – 4 students
Geography - 4 students
Physics - 3 students
Accounting - 3 students
Economics - 3 students
Health and Human development - 3 students
Media - 3 students
Multimedia VET - 3 students
Chinese SL - 2 students
Specialist mathematics – 2 students
French SL - 2 students
Food and technology - 1 student
Indonesian 1st language - 1 student
Outdoor and environmental studies - 1 student

Median Scores:
VCE median ENTER: 85.0
IB median score (converted to an ENTER) - 98.6

Now that was fun procrastination! :D
Title: Re: What is your schools best VCE subject?
Post by: droodles on May 10, 2008, 03:12:40 pm
my school is best at VCAL
Title: Re: What is your schools best VCE subject?
Post by: ice_blockie on May 10, 2008, 03:13:49 pm
these numbers are slightly unfair…coz Melbourne High & Macrob have like thousands of students who just flood the scores…

but meh, my skool did kickass in english, methods, spesh and chem…all top 15 in state.

I feel so complacent now…I blame jsimmo hahaha jkns
Title: Re: What is your schools best VCE subject?
Post by: thelovecatsx on May 10, 2008, 03:39:50 pm
Hmm at my school..

English: 37
ESL: 20 (no.1 in the state)
Accounting: 31
Methods (CAS): 27 (no.1 in the state)
Chemistry: 26
Further: 20
Specialist Math: 18

etc.. etc..
Title: Re: What is your schools best VCE subject?
Post by: gta007 on May 10, 2008, 04:52:27 pm
Hmmmmmm, the notable ones are:

IT Applications - 2nd by Scores
Business Management - 9 students over 40
Further Mathematics - 16 students over 40
Psychology - 8 students over 40

Somehow we're a Top 10 State school.

On a separate note, my chinese school was
1st in Chinese 1st Language by Scores, 2nd in Totals
1st in Chinese 2nd Language by Totals (17) and 4th in scores
1st in Chinese 2nd Language Advance by Totals (12) and Scores
Title: Re: What is your schools best VCE subject?
Post by: Eriny on May 10, 2008, 06:23:32 pm
Business Management (3)
Psychology (2)
Literature (1)
Economics (1)
English (1)
Vis Com (1)
Title: Re: What is your schools best VCE subject?
Post by: AppleThief on May 10, 2008, 06:50:29 pm
Business Management (3)
Psychology (2)
Literature (1)
Economics (1)
English (1)
Vis Com (1)
Wow, so a third of the over 40 scores came from you? Well done.

Let's see mine:
Further Maths (10)
English (8)
Maths Methods (6)
Biology (6)
Studio Arts (4)
PE (4)
English Language (3)
ESL (3)
Accounting (2)
Economics (2)
Legal Studies (2)
Business Management (2)
Psychology (2)
Music Performance: Solo (2)
Geography (2)
LOTE Subjects (2)
Systems (2)
IT Applications (1 - me!)
Literature (1)

I think that's all...However! The amount of students doing the subject skews the rankings here. There were only seven people in music, so having two get over 40 probably puts the subject in first place in terms of percentage. And lots and lots of people do English & Maths...
Title: Re: What is your schools best VCE subject?
Post by: gfb on May 10, 2008, 10:31:15 pm
Turkish, definitely.

in a class of 10,

1 48
2 44's
etc.

i.e. No.1 in the state.
Title: Re: What is your schools best VCE subject?
Post by: Eriny on May 12, 2008, 01:14:45 am
Business Management (3)
Psychology (2)
Literature (1)
Economics (1)
English (1)
Vis Com (1)
Wow, so a third of the over 40 scores came from you? Well done.
Hehe, yes :) My class was pretty small though, there were only 50 of us.
Title: Re: What is your schools best VCE subject?
Post by: Neobeo on May 13, 2008, 05:51:45 pm
The rankings are probablly a bit ambiguous but all the data is according to: http://rapidshare.com/files/80030201/Study_Scores__07.rar.html

Where were these obtained from and is there also such a data file for previous years?
Title: Re: What is your schools best VCE subject?
Post by: AppleThief on May 13, 2008, 05:54:47 pm
The rankings are probablly a bit ambiguous but all the data is according to: http://rapidshare.com/files/80030201/Study_Scores__07.rar.html

Where were these obtained from and is there also such a data file for previous years?
If I remember correctly, someone from BoS collated them. I'm not sure about previous years, though.
Title: Re: What is your schools best VCE subject?
Post by: jsimmo on May 13, 2008, 05:59:53 pm
The rankings are probablly a bit ambiguous but all the data is according to: http://rapidshare.com/files/80030201/Study_Scores__07.rar.html

Where were these obtained from and is there also such a data file for previous years?

Someone gathered all the information and merged them together or something like that (they got the details off the VCE top achievers, Herald Sun site).

There is a 2006 file but I can't find it.. I'll post it if I do.

EDIT: 2006 FILE: http://rapidshare.com/files/80030202/Study_Scores__06.rar.html

Title: Re: What is your schools best VCE subject?
Post by: Neobeo on May 13, 2008, 06:07:06 pm
Thanks. How about 2005? That's when I took my VCE =0
Title: Re: What is your schools best VCE subject?
Post by: HawkaPie on May 13, 2008, 06:10:21 pm
English i guess. 34. Although >50% of Psych students got 40+ last year, but there was only 2 classes..
Title: Re: What is your schools best VCE subject?
Post by: jsimmo on May 13, 2008, 06:14:48 pm
Thanks. How about 2005? That's when I took my VCE =0

Sorry I don't know if there is a 2005 file the person from BoS only uploaded the 2007 and 2006 files :(
Title: Re: What is your schools best VCE subject?
Post by: dcc on May 13, 2008, 08:52:27 pm
Biology (3)
English (3)
Legal Studies (2)
Further Mathematics (4)
Psychology (4)
Business Management (1)
Furnishing (5)
VCD (5)
Geography (3)
H&HD (3)
Art (6)
PE (1)
VET IT (2)
Indonesian (1)
Systems & Technology (1)

My school fails MM & SM & Physics
Title: Re: What is your schools best VCE subject?
Post by: misskaraleah on May 14, 2008, 03:39:22 pm
my school is best at VCAL


HA HA HA HA Thats so funny, yet so true for my school

Btw, the file wont open for me, its not compatible with my pc. Would anyone care to post Lyndhurst Secondary College Results for 2007 please?

Thanks :smitten:
Title: Re: What is your schools best VCE subject?
Post by: jess3254 on May 17, 2008, 03:31:33 pm
my school is best at VCAL

What's VCAL?
Title: Re: What is your schools best VCE subject?
Post by: brendan on May 17, 2008, 03:38:07 pm
my school is best at VCAL

What's VCAL?
http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vcal/