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VCE Stuff => Victorian Education Discussion => Topic started by: bomb on December 05, 2010, 03:07:35 pm
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What ATAR would you consider low for the Dux of a school?
Our Dux last year was 98+ but our Dux this year looks to be 95-96 :S
Is that one of the lowest Dux's in the state? What's Dux in the average school?
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What ATAR would you consider low for the Dux of a school?
Our Dux last year was 98+ but our Dux this year looks to be 95-96 :S
Is that one of the lowest Dux's in the state? What's Dux in the average school?
Probably around 96-97, that is usually the dux in a typical Western suburbs government school anyway (eg The Grange, Galvin Park, Hoppers Secondary, etc.)
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I've heard of a dux getting something like 65. There were only about 25 kids in year 12 though.
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The lowest I've heard someone getting Dux was high 80's/low 90's. An ATAR of 65 tends to be on the extreme, I agree with Rohitpi - 96~97 is about right, I think.
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Feel kinda better now. We're a northern suburbs school so yeah, no 99's.
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From memory my old school generally always had a person or two in the 99's.
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Dux when I was year 7 was low 80s. I remember being all ':/ that seems a bit low and I know shit all about VCE'. And that was back when my school actually had a decent amount of enrollments.
They're around high 90s now, hooray.
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Yep my school dux last year was 96ish. He was miles ahead of everyone else though?
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Dux when I was year 7 was low 80s. I remember being all ':/ that seems a bit low and I know shit all about VCE'. And that was back when my school actually had a decent amount of enrollments.
They're around high 90s now, hooray.
Same here, I remember it being 85, then gradually increasing.
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What ATAR would you consider low for the Dux of a school?
Our Dux last year was 98+ but our Dux this year looks to be 95-96 :S
Is that one of the lowest Dux's in the state? What's Dux in the average school?
At my school:
2008 - 83
2009 - 87.50
2010 - 75 (?) :P
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my school had a 99.something last year
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My school, which is a northern suburbs school too had a dux last year with a 96 ish and after that was a 91.
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I think my school's dux is rarely not 99.95
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What ATAR would you consider low for the Dux of a school?
Our Dux last year was 98+ but our Dux this year looks to be 95-96 :S
Is that one of the lowest Dux's in the state? What's Dux in the average school?
At my school:
2008 - 83
2009 - 87.50
2010 - 75 (?) :P
That record is about to get obliterated. :)
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I think my school's dux is rarely not 99.95
Melbourne Grammar or MHS?
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What ATAR would you consider low for the Dux of a school?
Our Dux last year was 98+ but our Dux this year looks to be 95-96 :S
Is that one of the lowest Dux's in the state? What's Dux in the average school?
At my school:
2008 - 83
2009 - 87.50
2010 - 75 (?) :P
That record is about to get obliterated. :)
Lol maybe.. That 75 there is just a low estimate ::)
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same with burberry,
our school as four of five equal duxes with 99.95
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I'd say like, 85?
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same with burberry,
our school as four of five equal duxes with 99.95
My school had that once in 2006 (4 99.95s), but usualy ours is somewhere in the 99s. I don't ever show up to presentation night though so I don't know for sure.
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GWSC?
Yeah, my old school's Dux got something like 98.9 or 98.5, and that was the highest ATAR ever in that school
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My western suburban school's dux is usually around 97-98. Although the top students are usually international students from vietnam/china.
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Well my school is pretty crappy but the Duxes went like this (there's usually only 4 people above 95 and one freak who gets 98/99) :
2005: 99.80
2006: 99.70
2007: 99.45
2008: 98.45
2009: 98.95
I think that anything below 97 is kinda low. But if the school is really small that's understandable. A government school across the road had a DUX of 82 in 2007. I was at the awards night cos my sister went there in year 8. It was so awkward. The teachers were like "This is one of the best DUXs we've ever had!"... I was like :-\
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My school last year, had one student who got 99.95 and two other students who got 99.90. My school's best ever result was 3 students who all achieved perfect scores - 99.95 - I think that was in 2007.
I think my school's dux is rarely not 99.95
Same here. For the past 7 or 8 years, our school's dux(s) have gotten 99.95.
In 2009, 13% scored 99 or above; 42% scored 95 or above; 60% scored 90 or above while the median ENTER score was 92.3 - that's what it reads on my school's website, though I'm pretty sure it's a bit over-exaggerated.
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Well my school is pretty crappy but the Duxes went like this (there's usually only 4 people above 95 and one freak who gets 98/99) :
Is that what you call a crappy school? :-\
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Not sure but the dux at my school last year had a score of 99.2 :)
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Well my school is pretty crappy but the Duxes went like this (there's usually only 4 people above 95 and one freak who gets 98/99) :
Is that what you call a crappy school? :-\
haha It's a pretty crap school. The teachers are woeful. But there's always like 5 people who work hard enough to overcome that, hence the DUXs are still decent. Hoping to be one of those 5 who overcomes the odds this year :) :)
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Well my school is pretty crappy but the Duxes went like this (there's usually only 4 people above 95 and one freak who gets 98/99) :
Is that what you call a crappy school? :-\
haha It's a pretty crap school. The teachers are woeful. But there's always like 5 people who work hard enough to overcome that, hence the DUXs are still decent. Hoping to be one of those 5 who overcomes the odds this year :) :)
Oh yeah, thought your basing it on the results. Hopefully you would anyhow 8-) Only in a weeks time will it bear witness to it..( and the rest of us)
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I wouldn't be happy with an ATAR below 98...
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I wouldn't be happy with an ATAR below 98...
Me either. But I think I'll just have to deal with it. I'm expecting 95/96/97ish.. 98 would be the ultimate for me though :D
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I wouldn't be happy with an ATAR below 98...
Lol, I'm looking at 98-99 ..
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m@tty - 99.5 +
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m@tty - 99.9 +
correction ;)
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hmmm i think my school is okay-
2007: 99.4
2008: 98.75?
2009: 98.35
basically have to be smartest in the school for any chance of getting over 99 :(
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m@tty - 99.9 +
correction ;)
We can't put TOO much pressure on him! ;)
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Slightly off-topic, six of the seven duxes from my school in 2009 have ads on this site IIRC. :3
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m@tty - 99.5 +
m@tty - 99.9 +
correction ;)
We can't put TOO much pressure on him! ;)
No pressure on me. I have no effect on the result anymore.
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Slightly off-topic, six of the seven duxes from my school in 2009 have ads on this site IIRC. :3
Any ideas on how many your school is looking at getting this year?
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A few years ago my school had 7 duxes with 99.95 -3 VCE 4 IB, or maybe it was vice versa, I can't remember.
I wouldn't be happy with an ATAR below 98...
This. My brother got a 98.35, and I absolutely have to beat that.
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A few years ago my school had 7 duxes with 99.95 -3 VCE 4 IB, or maybe it was vice versa, I can't remember.
I wouldn't be happy with an ATAR below 98...
This. My brother got a 98.35, and I absolutely have to beat that.
what is IB?
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^ International Baccelerate.. I think that's how you spell it. (It's just another secondary schooling certificate like VCE)
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No pressure on me. I have no effect on the result anymore.
Good point. Don't want expectations to be, unfair I guess.
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Slightly off-topic, six of the seven duxes from my school in 2009 have ads on this site IIRC. :3
Any ideas on how many your school is looking at getting this year?
I'm guessing two to four - doubt we'll match last year.
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At my school (also in the Northern suburbs) I think the dux got 81 when I was in year 8. Last year the dux got 99.7 or something, so I think that there has been a huge improvement (or there have just been a number of flukes in recent years).
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I know this is off-topic, but I just read that John Brumby and Ted Baillieu went to your school EZ, Melbourne Grammar, and they were also in the same year level! Strange..
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In general, my school has roughly 5% of its year 12 cohort achieve an ATAR score over 90.. this isn't much, considering there are 350 year 12s. One or two get over 99 - last year's was the highest so far in the school's history, with a 99.80.
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I know this is off-topic, but I just read that John Brumby and Ted Baillieu went to your school EZ, Melbourne Grammar, and they were also in the same year level! Strange..
Baillieu can lick me.
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I know this is off-topic, but I just read that John Brumby and Ted Baillieu went to your school EZ, Melbourne Grammar, and they were also in the same year level! Strange..
Baillieu can lick me.
You're way too short
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I know this is off-topic, but I just read that John Brumby and Ted Baillieu went to your school EZ, Melbourne Grammar, and they were also in the same year level! Strange..
Baillieu can lick me.
You're way too short
Hahaha, explain?
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I know this is off-topic, but I just read that John Brumby and Ted Baillieu went to your school EZ, Melbourne Grammar, and they were also in the same year level! Strange..
Yepyep, and Brumby was in the same house as me!
(ok let's get back on topic now. :3)
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my school's Dux has already been named...ass-kisser
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^ Hahaha how does that work? Please explain. :)
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I know this is off-topic, but I just read that John Brumby and Ted Baillieu went to your school EZ, Melbourne Grammar, and they were also in the same year level! Strange..
Baillieu can lick me.
You're way too short
Hahaha, explain?
(http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2010/11/10/1225950/708747-victorian-premier-john-brumby-and-liberal-leader-ted-baillieu.jpg)
Look how tall he is
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If only people had a way of going lower than their standing height, like kneeling!
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^ Hahaha how does that work? Please explain. :)
well apparently the Dux is whoever the principal likes the most.
the principal is a dickhead, so we all hate him and give him crap and with good reason. example, for our last day of school, rather than celebrate any or anything he put us in a bus and sent us to a nursing home to do community service (aka advertising the school). within an our we were all in tears after hearing stories from the helpers and being with people who had dementia (terrible condition :(). so after begging teachers to take us back to school, we went at 1.30 rather than the 3.00 the asshole had intended, oh and he didnt go with us btw. so we get back to school and rather than allow us to go home, he sent us to "english class" for the next 1.5 hrs, even though none of us had books, novels or even a pen. when we asked why he didnt come with us he said "i've been assisting there numerous times" to which i replied "if you have been there then you would have been aware of how depressing that environment is and you wouldnt have sent us there to begin with". he had no reply. so you see...asshole
so our Dux is the school captain, and got a 50 in greek the year before (it helps when you live in the country for 16/17 years). he goes with the dickhead to all his functions/presentations/open days/ceremonies, advertises the school and hey here, your Dux! His subjects are theory based (legal, accounting, methods-doesnt count, greek, english-he's crap), so i dont see him scoring over 95 despite the 50. so rather than wait for results to come out, he's Dux due to none-eduction reasons.
keep in mind im a prefect (i barely did anything big but lets move on) and went on my weekends a few times to these presentations too...where's my Dux award?? in other words...ive been robbed -_-
sorry, needed to vent
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^ Hahaha how does that work? Please explain. :)
well apparently the Dux is whoever the principal likes the most.
the principal is a dickhead, so we all hate him and give him crap and with good reason. example, for our last day of school, rather than celebrate any or anything he put us in a bus and sent us to a nursing home to do community service (aka advertising the school). within an our we were all in tears after hearing stories from the helpers and being with people who had dementia (terrible condition :(). so after begging teachers to take us back to school, we went at 1.30 rather than the 3.00 the asshole had intended, oh and he didnt go with us btw. so we get back to school and rather than allow us to go home, he sent us to "english class" for the next 1.5 hrs, even though none of us had books, novels or even a pen. when we asked why he didnt come with us he said "i've been assisting there numerous times" to which i replied "if you have been there then you would have been aware of how depressing that environment is and you wouldnt have sent us there to begin with". he had no reply. so you see...asshole
so our Dux is the school captain, and got a 50 in greek the year before (it helps when you live in the country for 16/17 years). he goes with the dickhead to all his functions/presentations/open days/ceremonies, advertises the school and hey here, your Dux! His subjects are theory based (legal, accounting, methods-doesnt count, greek, english-he's crap), so i dont see him scoring over 95 despite the 50. so rather than wait for results to come out, he's Dux due to none-eduction reasons.
keep in mind im a prefect (i barely did anything big but lets move on) and went on my weekends a few times to these presentations too...where's my Dux award?? in other words...ive been robbed -_-
sorry, needed to vent
you should've done your muck up day at the nursing home... It would've kept the residents entertained :P
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Duxing is solely based on one's ATAR score. Pre-emptively declaring someone Dux defeats the purpose of the title - like awarding the gold medal before the start of the race.
Perhaps Mr Dux achieved another award?
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^ Hahaha how does that work? Please explain. :)
well apparently the Dux is whoever the principal likes the most.
the principal is a dickhead, so we all hate him and give him crap and with good reason. example, for our last day of school, rather than celebrate any or anything he put us in a bus and sent us to a nursing home to do community service (aka advertising the school). within an our we were all in tears after hearing stories from the helpers and being with people who had dementia (terrible condition :(). so after begging teachers to take us back to school, we went at 1.30 rather than the 3.00 the asshole had intended, oh and he didnt go with us btw. so we get back to school and rather than allow us to go home, he sent us to "english class" for the next 1.5 hrs, even though none of us had books, novels or even a pen. when we asked why he didnt come with us he said "i've been assisting there numerous times" to which i replied "if you have been there then you would have been aware of how depressing that environment is and you wouldnt have sent us there to begin with". he had no reply. so you see...asshole
so our Dux is the school captain, and got a 50 in greek the year before (it helps when you live in the country for 16/17 years). he goes with the dickhead to all his functions/presentations/open days/ceremonies, advertises the school and hey here, your Dux! His subjects are theory based (legal, accounting, methods-doesnt count, greek, english-he's crap), so i dont see him scoring over 95 despite the 50. so rather than wait for results to come out, he's Dux due to none-eduction reasons.
keep in mind im a prefect (i barely did anything big but lets move on) and went on my weekends a few times to these presentations too...where's my Dux award?? in other words...ive been robbed -_-
sorry, needed to vent
you should've done your muck up day at the nursing home... It would've kept the residents entertained :P
Ye - you can get away with anything. They won't remember the next day.
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^ Haha! So how's that gonna work? A Dux with less than 95, and then other students go up on stage with 99+ and stuff?
Isn't the Dux the one with the highest ATAR, end of story?
But your principal does sound like an idiot.
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^ LOL very true
i honestly wouldnt have minded going there to help one weekend, i mean some of them never get visitors its so sad :(
but not on my graduation, its meant to be a happy occasion
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exactly, Dux= top ATAR
its funny he got a A in his accounting mid-year, and was convinced that it meant his SS range was 40-45 LOL
cant wait for when his results come out and there's no 40s. i just played around on enter calc and with 40s on both theory subs, 35 english and 30 methods (he flopped but i did too), he's looking at ~93/94
my school isnt very strong, we rarely pull out 90s but my year is very smart, out of the 20 of us we have 5 aiming for 90s (in contrast to last year of 1/30 in 90s)
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Duxing is solely based on one's ATAR score. Pre-emptively declaring someone Dux defeats the purpose of the title - like awarding the gold medal before the start of the race.
Perhaps Mr Dux achieved another award?
other than ass-kisser of the year....no
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LOL how exactly did he kiss the asses of the teachers/principals? Sounds interesting.. and I can see you wanna rage. ;)
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LOL how exactly did he kiss the asses of the teachers/principals? Sounds interesting.. and I can see you wanna rage. ;)
lol thanks for the opportunity :)
not the teachers, they all hate the principal too! my chemistry teacher is a legend, she's seriously the best in the state, lectures at latrobe uni as well as our school...and he gave her 2 days a week of work -_- so now she's leaving and to rub it in, at the awards night where the ass-kissing dux was named he did this presentation to teachers that were leaving (including the only decent maths teacher) but omitted her. and i asked her "hey miss i though u were leaving?" and she said " i am" and nearly started crying, my god it broke my heart, i was tempted to run on stage and grab the mic and aknowledge her for everything she's done for me :(
oh, also at that night u were meant to go in school uniform but mine was thrown out last day of exams, so i went in casual. not only was i not allowed on stage to accept my awards for academic excellence in bio and physics, but the bastard didnt read out my name. the whole point i sat through his bullshit speeches for 3 hours was to get these awards and he didnt aknowledge me...son of a bitch.
ok, back on track. even the teachers are a bit :/ with the dux cause he kinda presents this arrogance and he's convinced he's right about everything...cause hes the captain...
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Dux (plural: duces) is Latin for leader (from the verb ducere, 'to lead') and later for Duke.
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I heard that it's 98.2, the highest dux we've had. 2 years ago we had a 95 which I considered low for DUX but a good ENTER overall. However I heard a rumour someone got 99+. I hope that's not true. I'd like my friend to break that record.
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Dux (plural: duces) is Latin for leader (from the verb ducere, 'to lead') and later for Duke.
calm down smarty pants!
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My school dux last year was 99.85
pretty sure the year before was 99.90
that chick was crazy she had the most effed up sleeping pattern/study routine!
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Duxing is solely based on one's ATAR score. Pre-emptively declaring someone Dux defeats the purpose of the title - like awarding the gold medal before the start of the race.
Perhaps Mr Dux achieved another award?
At one of my schools dux was based on performance in schoolwork. Thus my friend, who got 99.90 shared the award with someone who got 98.90
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Does anyone else receive the "principals award"?
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Does anyone get the Caltex award?
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...What's that?
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http://210.247.179.234/about/
An All-rounder award that our school applies for..
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I think my school's dux is rarely not 99.95
Melbourne Grammar or MHS?
...or MacRob (although I know he is male) or Scotch?
(why do people always forget to mention the decade dominating MacRob?)
But in this case, the school is MHS
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Slightly off-topic, six of the seven duxes from my school in 2009 have ads on this site IIRC. :3
Any ideas on how many your school is looking at getting this year?
I'm guessing two to four - doubt we'll match last year.
How about next year? :P
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Slightly off-topic, six of the seven duxes from my school in 2009 have ads on this site IIRC. :3
Any ideas on how many your school is looking at getting this year?
I'm guessing two to four - doubt we'll match last year.
How about next year? :P
Around the same as last year (five and above) - incredible year level.
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At my school one year the dux was 94.5 then the next it was 98.6, but that was the highest dux in a while. There are about 1200+ students but only about 160ish year12s (if that)
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Dux of Pakenham High School last year was ~85.
Dus of my school in 2007 was 92.
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Dux of Pakenham High School last year was ~85.
Dus of my school in 2007 was 92.
How 'bout 08 ? :P ::)
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How did your school go last year Mao? I don't think anyone would have topped your score just yet!
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Dux of Pakenham High School last year was ~85.
Dus of my school in 2007 was 92.
How 'bout 08 ? :P ::)
Just a lazy 99.65 I hear ...
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2010 - 93.25 :|
I think that's pretty low since last year was a 99er.
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ours is 98.9 or something.
thought it would be a bit higher
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ours was the principle's pet -_- 96.something
although it does help when you can cheat the system and do 2 second languages....
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This year ours in 99.9, last year 99.85. Can't really remember past then.
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dux of my school (public) in 2008 was 98.80, for the record. I think 2009 was like 99.xx or something.
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This year two people got dux at my school: 96.05 =.=''
Best I've seen so far is 99.xx from an Asian exchange student..
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At my school (ranked 430) our duxes for the last 4-6 years have all be 99+, except in one occasion where it was 98.
But right after the top 2/3 there is a major dip, mid 90's, low 90's, 80's
glen waverly secondary - high ranked state school had 20+ people in the 99+ zone this year
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You know what's messed up? Glen Waverley gets high-ranked scores, but it's included in RMIT's regional bonus +5 ATAR points thingy. I thought it's supposed to be for disadvantaged kids.
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We are disadvantaged, have you been to The Glen?
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We are disadvantaged, have you been to The Glen?
Yes, I have. But I also happen to have a very close friend who lives in Glennie, and if her parents can afford $20,000 a year private school fees, you can hardly call her "disadvantaged". I suppose the main point is that Swinburne's regional ATAR bonus scheme (Yeah I got it wrong before, not RMIT) is a stupid idea. My brother lives in Wantirna South, if I were to stay at his house for the entirety of next year, they'd just give me 5 extra bonus points, which I definitely don't need/deserve.
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That was a joke about how boring our shopping centre is
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ours is 98.9 or something.
thought it would be a bit higher
It was actually 98.8, get it right hahahaha
I don't even go to your school and I know!
I think some people on here no more about littlebecc than she does hahaha
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That was a joke about how boring our shopping centre is
It's still better than Forest Hill Chase, which is the nearest to where I live.
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I think I'm dux with 98.55. Not that great, but I think it's equivalent to and even better than some previous years, so I'm content.
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It was actually 98.8, get it right hahahaha
I don't even go to your school and I know!
I think some people on here no more about littlebecc than she does hahaha
Dude how do you know this! I tried to find out the 'principles letter' but failed, so i just went off what others told me haha.
That is a scary thought!
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It was actually 98.8, get it right hahahaha
I don't even go to your school and I know!
I think some people on here no more about littlebecc than she does hahaha
Dude how do you know this! I tried to find out the 'principles letter' but failed, so i just went off what others told me haha.
That is a scary thought!
Hahaha I have contacts inside your school, I don't know if it's been published anywhere though...
You never know, maybe more people have you on fb than you think...
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That was a joke about how boring our shopping centre is
It's still better than Forest Hill Chase, which is the nearest to where I live.
OMG I live near Forest Hill Chase too! 0_0
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That was a joke about how boring our shopping centre is
It's still better than Forest Hill Chase, which is the nearest to where I live.
OMG I live near Forest Hill Chase too! 0_0
*high five* for living near the worst shopping centre in the city.
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That was a joke about how boring our shopping centre is
It's still better than Forest Hill Chase, which is the nearest to where I live.
OMG I live near Forest Hill Chase too! 0_0
*high five* for living near the worst shopping centre in the city.
Too true.
Although, with the new renovations now (JB HiFi/Hoyts/Rebel) I have renewed hope for Forest Hill Chase. :P
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That was a joke about how boring our shopping centre is
It's still better than Forest Hill Chase, which is the nearest to where I live.
OMG I live near Forest Hill Chase too! 0_0
*high five* for living near the worst shopping centre in the city.
Too true.
Although, with the new renovations now (JB HiFi/Hoyts/Rebel) I have renewed hope for Forest Hill Chase. :P
Yeah, they're opening Hoyts tomorrow, right? Hopefully they revamped the sound systems in there...I haven't seen a movie in that cinema in years. And JB HiFi is always exciting. The food court is disappointing, though.
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That was a joke about how boring our shopping centre is
It's still better than Forest Hill Chase, which is the nearest to where I live.
OMG I live near Forest Hill Chase too! 0_0
*high five* for living near the worst shopping centre in the city.
Too true.
Although, with the new renovations now (JB HiFi/Hoyts/Rebel) I have renewed hope for Forest Hill Chase. :P
Yeah, they're opening Hoyts tomorrow, right? Hopefully they revamped the sound systems in there...I haven't seen a movie in that cinema in years. And JB HiFi is always exciting. The food court is disappointing, though.
DISAGREE! Well, sorta disagree. 99.95% of it is disappointing, but have you tried the Indian place? Om nom nom
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That was a joke about how boring our shopping centre is
It's still better than Forest Hill Chase, which is the nearest to where I live.
OMG I live near Forest Hill Chase too! 0_0
*high five* for living near the worst shopping centre in the city.
Too true.
Although, with the new renovations now (JB HiFi/Hoyts/Rebel) I have renewed hope for Forest Hill Chase. :P
Yeah, they're opening Hoyts tomorrow, right? Hopefully they revamped the sound systems in there...I haven't seen a movie in that cinema in years. And JB HiFi is always exciting. The food court is disappointing, though.
DISAGREE! Well, sorta disagree. 99.95% of it is disappointing, but have you tried the Indian place? Om nom nom
I generally stay away from food court curries...my family's Sri Lankan; I get all the curry I could ever need/want at home. Usually at food courts I go straight for the Chinese or Japanese.
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That was a joke about how boring our shopping centre is
It's still better than Forest Hill Chase, which is the nearest to where I live.
OMG I live near Forest Hill Chase too! 0_0
*high five* for living near the worst shopping centre in the city.
Too true.
Although, with the new renovations now (JB HiFi/Hoyts/Rebel) I have renewed hope for Forest Hill Chase. :P
Yeah, they're opening Hoyts tomorrow, right? Hopefully they revamped the sound systems in there...I haven't seen a movie in that cinema in years. And JB HiFi is always exciting. The food court is disappointing, though.
DISAGREE! Well, sorta disagree. 99.95% of it is disappointing, but have you tried the Indian place? Om nom nom
I generally stay away from food court curries...my family's Sri Lankan; I get all the curry I could ever need/want at home. Usually at food courts I go straight for the Chinese or Japanese.
Ahahaha I'm the exact opposite. I'm Chinese, so I stay the hell away from Chinese food court places.
Japanese, however, is acceptable. Sushi Sushi = :D
No but seriously, usually food court stuff is bad, but this indian place is actually not. :P
But if you're Sri Lankan, you're probably used to some awesome food anyways :D
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That was a joke about how boring our shopping centre is
It's still better than Forest Hill Chase, which is the nearest to where I live.
OMG I live near Forest Hill Chase too! 0_0
*high five* for living near the worst shopping centre in the city.
Too true.
Although, with the new renovations now (JB HiFi/Hoyts/Rebel) I have renewed hope for Forest Hill Chase. :P
Yeah, they're opening Hoyts tomorrow, right? Hopefully they revamped the sound systems in there...I haven't seen a movie in that cinema in years. And JB HiFi is always exciting. The food court is disappointing, though.
DISAGREE! Well, sorta disagree. 99.95% of it is disappointing, but have you tried the Indian place? Om nom nom
I generally stay away from food court curries...my family's Sri Lankan; I get all the curry I could ever need/want at home. Usually at food courts I go straight for the Chinese or Japanese.
Ahahaha I'm the exact opposite. I'm Chinese, so I stay the hell away from Chinese food court places.
Japanese, however, is acceptable. Sushi Sushi = :D
No but seriously, usually food court stuff is bad, but this indian place is actually not. :P
But if you're Sri Lankan, you're probably used to some awesome food anyways :D
I am currently addicted to Unagi Don and Chicken Katsu Curry. Aaand my Japanese friend's Mum's epic sukiyaki beef. I will never get over how amazing Jap food is.
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I go to a shitty western suburbs school, last year it was 96 this year it was 97-98 if i remember correctly
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I go to a shitty western suburbs school, last year it was 96 this year it was 97-98 if i remember correctly
>.< i also go to a "shitty western suburb school", last yr dux was like 97, happy that i smashed that =D
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This year our dux got 99.95 (David Ren) and our proxime accessit got 99.8
Not too bad.
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Our school's dux is pretty low compared to many of the other schools.
94.75 - yeah, a western suburb school. >.<"
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Heh grats on being dux henwee xD
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Lol.... thanks. =]
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Another school in my area was only 91.xx
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Another school in my area was only 91.xx
A school in MY area averages a dux of around high 70's...
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My schools' dux last year like I said was 98.2, but I found out the highest ever was 99.2. I guess I'm the new one now.
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My schools' dux last year like I said was 98.2, but I found out the highest ever was 99.2. I guess I'm the new one now.
Yep, you're definitely a low dux =.=
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I never said I was ><
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I never said I was ><
Then why'd you post here? ;D ;D
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to rectify somethign I said earlier in teh thread about it being 98.2 :)
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I go to a shitty western suburbs school, last year it was 96 this year it was 97-98 if i remember correctly
Bit harsh on our school, last year's DUX was 97.3. This year's top three scores were: 98.75,98.70,98.5. To add to that, the guy who got 98.70, well his brother developed cancer when he was entering year 12. I am sure this affected his ATAR severely. I know if I was in that situation I would almost totally drop school for a long period of time, I would be surprised if he didn't as well.
To be honest, I think our school has excellent teachers, just the ratio of academic students to VCAL/bludgers is fairly low!
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My old school had a dux who was 96.something - bomb. Apparently there were only two other students (out of about 330) who got over 90. Top score for Spesh was 28.
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^^ At a school ~5 mins from mine, the previous record Dux was like 97.xx. This year, a girl got 99.8, this is pretty impressive no matter what school you go to imo, proof that a low ATAR is not your school's fault, if you apply yourself and are hungry enough, you will get into your dream course.
FWIW thushan, I know a kid in like year 9 at Scotch. Absolute faggot lol.
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im pretty sure this year my school did the best out of all the other years :) 2 got 99+ but i think nxt year (my year) there will be quite a few achievers, hopefully im one of them :D
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^^ At a school ~5 mins from mine, the previous record Dux was like 97.xx. This year, a girl got 99.8, this is pretty impressive no matter what school you go to imo, proof that a low ATAR is not your school's fault, if you apply yourself and are hungry enough, you will get into your dream course.
FWIW thushan, I know a kid in like year 9 at Scotch. Absolute faggot lol.
lol who? (PM me)
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There was no Dux at my school last year. No one did VCE. Haha. (yes, "shitty western suburbs government school")
This year, though, Dux was 99.6 or something.
FM: 48, Spesh: 46, Chem: 47, ESL: 35, Phys: 44, Meth: 46, his ChineseSL score didn't count.
Or something along those lines. Shame he couldn't lift that ESL.
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my school dux was 94.45 ( out of 200+ students )
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im pretty sure this year my school did the best out of all the other years :) 2 got 99+ but i think nxt year (my year) there will be quite a few achievers, hopefully im one of them :D
My school (this year) was the complete opposite, under-performed. We had one student get 99.95 - which comparatively isn't that good, considering we had 3 students get 99.95 in 2007.
I'm hoping also my year level does well (including myself!) - we had quite a few students get high scores for their 3/4 subject(s).
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im pretty sure this year my school did the best out of all the other years :) 2 got 99+ but i think nxt year (my year) there will be quite a few achievers, hopefully im one of them :D
My school (this year) was the complete opposite, under-performed. We had one student get 99.95 - which comparatively isn't that good, considering we had 3 students get 99.95 in 2007.
I'm hoping also my year level does well (including myself!) - we had quite a few students get high scores for their 3/4 subject(s).
+1 Ditto for my school.
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im pretty sure this year my school did the best out of all the other years :) 2 got 99+ but i think nxt year (my year) there will be quite a few achievers, hopefully im one of them :D
My school (this year) was the complete opposite, under-performed. We had one student get 99.95 - which comparatively isn't that good, considering we had 3 students get 99.95 in 2007.
I'm hoping also my year level does well (including myself!) - we had quite a few students get high scores for their 3/4 subject(s).
+1 Ditto for my school.
thats coz a lot of smart students at ur school do IB, i bet theres like 2 or 3 45s this year at ur school
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our highest was 98.xx
but our highest eng&englang score was 37 ROFL.
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our highest was 98.xx
but our highest eng&englang score was 37 ROFL.
WUT :|
What is your school?! :S
What was the highest psych score? (If you know it...)
I'm sure you could definitely do well at any school though, I thought I doomed cos my school is pretty bad. But if you work hard then you can overcome that :)
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^^ At a school ~5 mins from mine, the previous record Dux was like 97.xx. This year, a girl got 99.8, this is pretty impressive no matter what school you go to imo, proof that a low ATAR is not your school's fault, if you apply yourself and are hungry enough, you will get into your dream course.
FWIW thushan, I know a kid in like year 9 at Scotch. Absolute faggot lol.
lol who? (PM me)
I can list more
OT:
My friend got 99.70 in a school where the highest is usually 97 or 98 ish :P
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My school is still kinda new at VCE so I guess we are getting better
2006: first year and I don't know it (probably really low)
2007: ~9x.xx
2008: 99.5 (genius)
2009: 96.xx
2010: 97.70 (sucks cause I missed out by 1 SS)
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My school is still kinda new at VCE so I guess we are getting better
2006: first year and I don't know it (probably really low)
2007: ~9x.xx
2008: 99.5 (genius)
2009: 96.xx
2010: 97.70 (sucks cause I missed out by 1 SS)
Wow which school did you go to?
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im pretty sure this year my school did the best out of all the other years :) 2 got 99+ but i think nxt year (my year) there will be quite a few achievers, hopefully im one of them :D
My school (this year) was the complete opposite, under-performed. We had one student get 99.95 - which comparatively isn't that good, considering we had 3 students get 99.95 in 2007.
I'm hoping also my year level does well (including myself!) - we had quite a few students get high scores for their 3/4 subject(s).
+1 Ditto for my school.
thats coz a lot of smart students at ur school do IB, i bet theres like 2 or 3 45s this year at ur school
Hmm, true. And more and more people are moving to IB, more than 25% of my year level are doing IB. I spent quite a while tossing up between the two. Picked VCE because, quite frankly, I'm lazy, I could get a 3/4 over and done with in Year 11, and I like being able to swap around subjects at my whim.
I reckon VCE was a damn good choice. My friends who do IB are often stressed and never seem to have spare time to just hang out. Plus, if I did IB, I would have never discovered the awesomeness of VN - I mean AN. Really glad most of the super-smart kids have turned to IB; less internal competition for me :D (ie. higher SAC rankings)
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im pretty sure this year my school did the best out of all the other years :) 2 got 99+ but i think nxt year (my year) there will be quite a few achievers, hopefully im one of them :D
My school (this year) was the complete opposite, under-performed. We had one student get 99.95 - which comparatively isn't that good, considering we had 3 students get 99.95 in 2007.
I'm hoping also my year level does well (including myself!) - we had quite a few students get high scores for their 3/4 subject(s).
+1 Ditto for my school.
thats coz a lot of smart students at ur school do IB, i bet theres like 2 or 3 45s this year at ur school
Hmm, true. And more and more people are moving to IB, more than 25% of my year level are doing IB. I spent quite a while tossing up between the two. Picked VCE because, quite frankly, I'm lazy, I could get a 3/4 over and done with in Year 11, and I like being able to swap around subjects at my whim.
I reckon VCE was a damn good choice. My friends who do IB are often stressed and never seem to have spare time to just hang out. Plus, if I did IB, I would have never discovered the awesomeness of VN - I mean AN. Really glad most of the super-smart kids have turned to IB; less internal competition for me :D (ie. higher SAC rankings)
you have nothing to worry about.. i mean a 50 in methods.. wow ;)
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im pretty sure this year my school did the best out of all the other years :) 2 got 99+ but i think nxt year (my year) there will be quite a few achievers, hopefully im one of them :D
My school (this year) was the complete opposite, under-performed. We had one student get 99.95 - which comparatively isn't that good, considering we had 3 students get 99.95 in 2007.
I'm hoping also my year level does well (including myself!) - we had quite a few students get high scores for their 3/4 subject(s).
+1 Ditto for my school.
thats coz a lot of smart students at ur school do IB, i bet theres like 2 or 3 45s this year at ur school
Hmm, true. And more and more people are moving to IB, more than 25% of my year level are doing IB. I spent quite a while tossing up between the two. Picked VCE because, quite frankly, I'm lazy, I could get a 3/4 over and done with in Year 11, and I like being able to swap around subjects at my whim.
I reckon VCE was a damn good choice. My friends who do IB are often stressed and never seem to have spare time to just hang out. Plus, if I did IB, I would have never discovered the awesomeness of VN - I mean AN. Really glad most of the super-smart kids have turned to IB; less internal competition for me :D (ie. higher SAC rankings)
you have nothing to worry about.. i mean a 50 in methods.. wow ;)
Awww, shucks :)
At least I get to prove to them high-n-mighty IB kids that doing VCE=/=stoopid. When people consider moving to VCE cos they can't keep up with IB or for whatever reason, they call it "dropping down" into VCE. And I have actually been asked "Why'd you choose VCE? VCE's for dumb kids." Oh, the arrogance.
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Damn that attitude is pretty pretentious at best...
Remember though that in IB it's about bringing you up to a 7 standard (as in grade = 7) in each subject, whilst in VCE it's not about merely going to A+ standard, it's about getting 100% in every goddamn assessment!
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Yeah. I got into a rather heated argument with one of my IB friends over it - she basically outright said "VCE is a stupid system, it's so easy to do well in" and I brought up the same point about how a 7 in IB is equivalent to maybe a mid-40 to 50 subject score in VCE (if it's A+, I might go so far as to say it's equivalent to 40+, but I think it's harder to get a 7 in IB than a 40 in VCE) and I should probs stop spamming this thread with my ranting now.
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Yeah. I got into a rather heated argument with one of my IB friends over it - she basically outright said "VCE is a stupid system, it's so easy to do well in" and I brought up the same point about how a 7 in IB is equivalent to maybe a mid-40 to 50 subject score in VCE (if it's A+, I might go so far as to say it's equivalent to 40+, but I think it's harder to get a 7 in IB than a 40 in VCE) and I should probs stop spamming this thread with my ranting now.
Haha the nature of discourse is that topics change :P
This topic was not one that was meant to be stagnant
so np
There you go - about IB vs VCE
Having said that I would have liked to do IB because it gives me (correct me if i'm wrong) a good generic education - well rounded...and i dont have to be concerned about getting 100% in EVERYTHING
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Yeah, IB gives you a broader and deeper education, but I'm glad I picked VCE. I hear from my friends that the IB exams are way less in-depth than VCE exams, as they have to cover two years' worth of topics in a single examination, so you don't get the crazy-hard application questions for science and maths subjects that can pop up in VCE.
Mostly, I'm glad I picked VCE for the freedom that I have. Four VCE subjects next year = a plethora of spares; we get afternoons off (I've actually spent WAY more time hanging out with my friends outside of school this year than I did pre-VCE), and I also get to do Uni Enhancement in lieu of a regular 3/4 subject. Also, I've been able to shuffle around my subjects heaps. People say IB requires you to work harder, but achieving in VCE requires just as much effort.
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Point taken.
Unless you made the mistake of taking 6 subjects in year 12 like me. :S
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It's not too late! You can still drop one, unless you're really passionate about all your subjects, and can't bear to drop one. I still have 6 subjects lined up for next year...I need to get Physics taken off my timetable, but I don't think I can until school starts, in which case, my Physics teacher will have my name on his roll, and will be disappointed when he finds out that I'm dropping it :( I don't want him to be sad. LOL half of my Physics class (i.e. 6 of the 12 VCE Physics students in my year level) are dropping it. My poor teacher. He's nice, just a bit too crazy and absent-minded for VCE-level teaching. I've never gotten a perfect mark for a prac write-up, and I've never gotten any kind of explanation as to why. If I ask what I did wrong I get a vague "It's good...but it could be better." Went off on a bit of a tangent there - it seems I've quite recently developed a propensity for steering this thread off-topic.
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It's not too late! You can still drop one, unless you're really passionate about all your subjects, and can't bear to drop one. I still have 6 subjects lined up for next year...I need to get Physics taken off my timetable, but I don't think I can until school starts, in which case, my Physics teacher will have my name on his roll, and will be disappointed when he finds out that I'm dropping it :( I don't want him to be sad. LOL half of my Physics class (i.e. 6 of the 12 VCE Physics students in my year level) are dropping it. My poor teacher. He's nice, just a bit too crazy and absent-minded for VCE-level teaching. I've never gotten a perfect mark for a prac write-up, and I've never gotten any kind of explanation as to why. If I ask what I did wrong I get a vague "It's good...but it could be better." Went off on a bit of a tangent there - it seems I've quite recently developed a propensity for steering this thread off-topic.
Ahh dw about off-topicness
Well I considered dropping physics...but shall we say that my dad said something along the lines of "over my dead body you will" :P
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LOL. I was considering dropping French at first, then I realised how crazy that was, seeing as I have straight As and A+s in French and I think I could pull off a decent SS, followed by epic scaling. As for physics, my report made me LOL. C for pracwork, B for tests, then A+ for exam. Physics ended up being my best exam lol (apart from methods) but yeah, my parents aren't going to refuse my dropping the subject after those inconsistent results. Actually, I don't think they really care which subjects I pick, as long as I don't do something completely ridiculous.
My dad agrees with your dad on the importance of Physics, but I can learn all the interesting bits from the internet and books, and I can always pick it up again in uni, so I don't think parting with VCE Physics is going to scar me for life.
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Point taken.
Unless you made the mistake of taking 6 subjects in year 12 like me. :S
This was me at the start of the year. I was literally forced by VCAA to do five subjects though. :(
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Point taken.
Unless you made the mistake of taking 6 subjects in year 12 like me. :S
This was me at the start of the year. I was literally forced by VCAA to do five subjects though. :(
What!? How?
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LOL. I was considering dropping French at first, then I realised how crazy that was, seeing as I have straight As and A+s in French and I think I could pull off a decent SS, followed by epic scaling. As for physics, my report made me LOL. C for pracwork, B for tests, then A+ for exam. Physics ended up being my best exam lol (apart from methods) but yeah, my parents aren't going to refuse my dropping the subject after those inconsistent results. Actually, I don't think they really care which subjects I pick, as long as I don't do something completely ridiculous.
My dad agrees with your dad on the importance of Physics, but I can learn all the interesting bits from the internet and books, and I can always pick it up again in uni, so I don't think parting with VCE Physics is going to scar me for life.
Damn...fair enough
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lol EZ exam timetable constraints?
Seems like many schools are the same: >50% of 1/2 physics students drop it before heading into year 12. Maybe there's just a lack of good teachers for it...or maybe the curriculum is just bad? :P
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^ from my (albeit very limited) experience, it's difficult to find a good physics teacher who will explain the concepts well.
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Just for your knowledge above ^^, an IB grade of 7 is equivalent to a studyscore of 42 and above.
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Really? That doesn't sound right...unless we're considering that one needs to learn harder course content
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lol EZ exam timetable constraints?
Seems like many schools are the same: >50% of 1/2 physics students drop it before heading into year 12. Maybe there's just a lack of good teachers for it...or maybe the curriculum is just bad? :P
I don't think EZ was allowed to do VCAA Philosophy and MUEP Philosophy.
Also, it's the same at my school. I'm actually one of the physics drop-outs. Apart from generally disliking physics, the fact that our school has a poor record with physics (which i think is due to the teachers), became a huge factor for my decision.
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Check it out, http://www.vtac.edu.au/pdf/interstate-scoring-conversion.pdf, last table I think.
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at my school only one person got 50 in 2010, and he was in yr 11 doing 3/4 further LOL.
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My school only one person get's 50s too. Lemme tell you, in physics one person got 47, then everyone got <40. If you're not top 5 ranking in my school you're screwed because the general cohort is...shit.
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Just for your knowledge above ^^, an IB grade of 7 is equivalent to a studyscore of 42 and above.
sounds about right. I did a mock IB French exam and lost about twelve marks, and it was still a "7". imagine losing twelve marks on VCE French. goodbye any hope of 40....
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imagine losing twelve marks on VCE French. goodbye any hope of 40....
I'd say that a scaled 40+ wouldn't be beyond you if you lost 12 marks on a VCE French exam...
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My school has quite poor scores to be honest, 2010's dux was about an 80. 2009 was actually one of the best in recent years with a 92.
Because our school doesn't generally have high achievers, does that mean my score would be dragged down?
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Your study scores may get dragged down if you have a weak cohort. Just make sure you're rank1 or ranked 1-3 depending on the strength of the top students and you do well on the exams.
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Your study scores may get dragged down if you have a weak cohort. Just make sure you're rank1 or ranked 1-3 depending on the strength of the top students and you do well on the exams.
Well I know our school isn't the best, but this year there's bound to be a few 90+ scores so if I do well enough it shouldn't be affected too much, if at all :)