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VCE Stuff => Victorian Education Discussion => Topic started by: nacho on May 01, 2011, 06:34:58 pm
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Hey,
I was wondering, does everyone here go to school everyday?
One of my friends, upon asking me the question was surprised at my response when I asked her if she was serious and laughed at the question. She said she often took days off to study herself(she was the dux of her school, a not so well-off school btw, still got high 99's) and said they didn't really do anything
Does anyone else here skip like a day every now and then, or wag a period if they have a bad teacher?
My school is incessant in reinforcing the fact that we have a certain amount of unapproved absences, we could fail the subject (i think it was 8 per semester).
I know I got around 10 unapproved last year for a year 11, but that's yr11, i doubt anyone cares about that.
Does anyone actually get failed for missing out like 10+ periods which are unapproved?
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back in year 12 i wagged double methods periods in the morning consistently lol the teacher was pretty chill with it. i also had a friend who wagged almost every single italian class from term 2 onwards, including those classes where he had sacs LOL but he did get a pretty bad score for that subject
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You have to attend 90% or more of classes I'm pretty sure.
I took days off when I was at school, if you use it conscientiously it's not that big a deal
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No, i didn't really take of days just to study. Some of friends did, guess we all did okay at the end. It' only if you are not really missing out much at school then it wouldn't matter.
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Oh okay,
but say if u manage to only attend 80% of classes, but still kill VCE they won't do anything, right?
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I thought it was less than 90%, but is it set by the school and/or VCAA?
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All VCE units require 50 hours of class time. A student needs to attend suffi cient class time to complete work. The school
sets minimum class time and attendance rules. Where a student has completed work but there has been a substantive
breach of attendance rules and the school therefore wishes to assign N to the unit, the school must assign N for one or
more outcomes and thus the unit.
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Haha, my school had a "100% attendance policy" that they brought in. Stupidest thing ever. Sometimes there's more benefit from missing class than going to class.
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I started skipping a day or two a week in term 4. Term 4 is pretty much all revision and private study classes anyway. My form teacher was cool with it though so we got away pretty easily. But yeh, it's definitely worth it in term 4. Potential benefit earlier if you know that a certain day is going to be fairly pointless, otherwise you're best to attend to not miss any notes and such.
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I'm pretty sure most of the teachers don't mind at our school anyway nacho. Heck, look at Kenron.
We should wag chem to study in peace and quite -_-
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im not going to athleticsssss carnivallllll (i dont run, as indicated on my avatar)
:P
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90% attendance sucks! especially for those days when you don't do much in school anyway..
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As much as I hate it, no school before exams definitely benefits your VCE as a whole. I remember there were some weeks in which everyone became mysteriously sick, and the school tried to be tight about it but failed. That said, there was one kid that wasn't allowed to attend speech night/graduation dinner because of it.
Personally I don't think I took any study days as such, rather just before exams I'd bring praccys to school and do them instead of paying attention to teachers.
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Definitely reccomend taking the whole week before exams off. You should already know the content so no teachers needed, just spam the shit outta those practice exams, you'll be reeling in those A+'s ;]
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Definitely reccomend taking the whole week before exams off. You should already know the content so no teachers needed, just spam the shit outta those practice exams, you'll be reeling in those A+'s ;]
Just like you killed the prac sesh? :P
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I was away for a week during year 12 and had meeting to go to and such during class, but I didn't take days off. The way I see it, even with how much time is wasted in the classroom, it would take longer to self-study. And, if I already knew the content then it could be revision.
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If you fail the year on attendance and repeat year 12, do you keep the study scores you get or are you not given any seeing as you failed?
Because a girl at my school failed last year on attendance and she claims she got amazing scores. Wouldn't that just be unfair, since you could get amazing scores, repeat, then get amazing scores in another 4 or 5 classes?
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I went to a very strict school, but i missed about 50% of further classes in the year, because i found the teacher so painful and the teaching so slow, seriously could teach myself weeks of class in an hour haha. so i tried to use that time to study at school, not so successful though.. also missed methods too if i wanted to sleep in or had a SAC for something else since i thought it'd be my 7th subject, and regardless found it not too hard to catch up.
i had to give millions of notes to the school though and get in trouble every couple of days but i didn't care.. so if you are prepared to deal with consequence and CAN catch up, maybe even study it better yourself. go for it.
just do whatever you feel can make you have the best score possible.
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my two cents...
stay in school, don't do drugs
...as long as you listen to the teacher you can't go wrong and A+ is virtually guaranteed!
anyway that's my advice.
i know a few people who skipped quite a lot of classes in year 10 and I think they got expelled from my school.
anyway, you pay for classes so you're wasting all that money if you don't attend.
hope this helps!
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When my aunt was in her final year of school, she had about a 50% attendance rate, because she spent half her time studying at home instead of going to school. They weren't going to let her sit the exams, but then my grandma (a teacher at the school at the time) stole her attendance record and the school couldn't prove anything, so they had to let her sit the exams. She aced them and was the only kid in her graduating class to get into med school.
Disclaimer: Don't try this at home, kiddies; electronic attendance records are tricky to steal.