atar-dating 'discussion'?!

[Greatness]

high atar = intelligence (well, there's a correlation) = makes good decisions = has good taste = if you two are going out = you're quality.
so going out with someone with a high atar = awesome.

=swarley.

^ Wow you guys have bitchy/shitty girlfriends/boyfriends.

[b^3]

NVM the original quote here, I completely read it wrong.

but anyways, it's only a 0.35 difference between Panicmode and her, as if that's a big deal! 0.35...really?!

Second of all thats not the point, the point is it shouldn't make a difference, not by how much, it shouldn't mean anything at all. Who cares what ATAR's you got if you enjoy being with each other.

EDIT: On reading that a second time, it doesn't seem too coherent, still waking up. Also 1600th Post.

[Camo]

My ex-girlfriend broke up with me because I got a higher ATAR than her.

We were in the middle of Chadstone, having a coffee together after a movie and some shopping (by which I mean 2 hours of, "Really? Are you sure? I'm not sure I like it.. hmmm.... but it does match my hair") when she brings up the subject of ATAR proudly telling me she got a 97.9 . I congratulate her and we kiss and I tell her how well she's done and how all her hard work payed off. She then asked me and I dodge the question (cause I knew she wouldn't be happy that I beat her) and said I'm happy with it and it's enough to get into my course. She pesters me and insists on a concrete score so I finally tell her and she chucks this big hissy in the middle of Chadstone and tells me how I was bragging about my score and stringing her along to make her feel bad about her score. She practically slapped me in the middle of Chadstone and she storms off and we break up.... hmmm...


So yeah, some people do care about their partner's ATAR.

But but but. Its only 98.25 and 97.9. Theres not that much a difference!!! :|

My girlfriend is happy that I'm smart, one of the things that she loves me for apparently.

[thushan]

My ex-girlfriend broke up with me because I got a higher ATAR than her.

We were in the middle of Chadstone, having a coffee together after a movie and some shopping (by which I mean 2 hours of, "Really? Are you sure? I'm not sure I like it.. hmmm.... but it does match my hair") when she brings up the subject of ATAR proudly telling me she got a 97.9 . I congratulate her and we kiss and I tell her how well she's done and how all her hard work payed off. She then asked me and I dodge the question (cause I knew she wouldn't be happy that I beat her) and said I'm happy with it and it's enough to get into my course. She pesters me and insists on a concrete score so I finally tell her and she chucks this big hissy in the middle of Chadstone and tells me how I was bragging about my score and stringing her along to make her feel bad about her score. She practically slapped me in the middle of Chadstone and she storms off and we break up.... hmmm...


So yeah, some people do care about their partner's ATAR.

Holy, sorry to hear that! But having said that, I do not like your ex's attitude. Unless she wasn't herself then...did she at least apologise?

[Panicmode]

You wouldn't think it'd make much of a difference but it did apparently.

Nope, no apology. Just a triad of Facebook bombardments from her friends about what a horrible guy I am . It's ok though, I've unfriended them and now I don't have to put up with their ridiculously attention seeking statuses, "Oh I'm so fat, how could anyone love me?" [Damn right you attention seeking whore]

It's weird now that I look back on the whole thing I realise what a bitch she was. I kinda used to defend her after we broke up but after everything that happened prior, I can't see nay reason why I should anymore.

But I'm slightly bitter about the whole thing. It has left me with lots of free time which I have surprisingly easily filled. Work + Books + TV = Happy

[Mech]

prove that they were the 'winners' of the break up or something. ah, politics.

This is the problem with VCE. It sticks insecure teenagers in a rat race for limited positions in universities by flexing their abilities to sit down and concentrate on information you probably will not need to complete the tertiary degree (well, in my case at least). Although, valuable skills such as basics to the sciences and language/writing skills aside. I just cannot imagine when I will have to sit down in university and write a creative story or do a language analysis. 

and as for what your ex has done, that's just too far. you're better off not having her status on your newsfeed anyway.

That is how I feel, except we were quite happily friends.

high atar = intelligence (well, there's a correlation) = makes good decisions = has good taste = if you two are going out = you're quality.
so going out with someone with a high atar = awesome.

Dubious as to what you define as "intelligence"; there is still much debate in psychology and psychiatry how well we can formally define someone's mental abilities. Marks at school prove how studious you were and a relative amount of intelligence; however, I think it mostly has to do with wrote learning and memory, personally. I say this as a person who did quite well in my VCE. And I really think stretching it out to say people with high ATARs make good decisions and have good taste is questionable. You obviously think they made the right decision by putting their all into their education; others might view that as not experiencing enough of life, that you could have got a decent ATAR with less stress involved. Taste is a matter of opinion. My friends, who all scored highly in VCE, still have questionable music tastes. 

[xdecay]

prove that they were the 'winners' of the break up or something. ah, politics.

This is the problem with VCE. It sticks insecure teenagers in a rat race for limited positions in universities by flexing their abilities to sit down and concentrate on information you probably will not need to complete the tertiary degree (well, in my case at least). Although, valuable skills such as basics to the sciences and language/writing skills aside. I just cannot imagine when I will have to sit down in university and write a creative story or do a language analysis. 

and as for what your ex has done, that's just too far. you're better off not having her status on your newsfeed anyway.

That is how I feel, except we were quite happily friends.

high atar = intelligence (well, there's a correlation) = makes good decisions = has good taste = if you two are going out = you're quality.
so going out with someone with a high atar = awesome.

Dubious as to what you define as "intelligence"; there is still much debate in psychology and psychiatry how well we can formally define someone's mental abilities. Marks at school prove how studious you were and a relative amount of intelligence; however, I think it mostly has to do with wrote learning and memory, personally. I say this as a person who did quite well in my VCE. And I really think stretching it out to say people with high ATARs make good decisions and have good taste is questionable. You obviously think they made the right decision by putting their all into their education; others might view that as not experiencing enough of life, that you could have got a decent ATAR with less stress involved. Taste is a matter of opinion. My friends, who all scored highly in VCE, still have questionable music tastes. 

woah you're dissecting my quote into little pieces and scrutinizing them with such eloquence, so i'm feeling a tad intimidated. i don't disagree with you but it was just a generalisation, of course. i agree that one's atar score does not immediately relate to their intelligence but it's at least an indication even if it's just the slightest. rote-learning or not, there are skills used in studying/this whole vce process that i personally think are involved with some sectors of intelligence. like i said, it was just a generalisation as a response to the ridiculous notion of people seeing one's atar as a tool to rate the level of 'going-outability'.

ps. yeah, i know a few nerds rockin' out to 'i'm sexy and i know it'. nah, 'questionable music tastes'? also a matter of opinion.

[86]

ps. yeah, i know a few nerds rockin' out to 'i'm sexy and i know it'. nah, 'questionable music tastes'? also a matter of opinion.

Anyone who listens to that mainstream rubbish needs to be intensely ridiculed.

[Mech]

woah you're dissecting my quote into little pieces and scrutinizing them with such eloquence, so i'm feeling a tad intimidated. i don't disagree with you but it was just a generalisation, of course. i agree that one's atar score does not immediately relate to their intelligence but it's at least an indication even if it's just the slightest. rote-learning or not, there are skills used in studying/this whole vce process that i personally think are involved with some sectors of intelligence. like i said, it was just a generalisation as a response to the ridiculous notion of people seeing one's atar as a tool to rate the level of 'going-outability'.

ps. yeah, i know a few nerds rockin' out to 'i'm sexy and i know it'. nah, 'questionable music tastes'? also a matter of opinion.

Sorry, I am very analytical - I was kicking myself that I put "wrote" instead of "rote" when I re-read. Pedantry is a hobby, right?  Studying skills, yeah, they could be important and I think they would be pro rata to your ATAR. I could agree with that.

I rock out to LMFAO. Problem? 

[playsimme]

Vce is over. Nobody should give a fuck about what their atar was, people should be grateful they even had the opppurtunity to get one. Honestly I've completely forgotten about atars because it simply does not matter anymore, it's only to get you into a course then it's upwards from there..

[Camo]

woah you're dissecting my quote into little pieces and scrutinizing them with such eloquence, so i'm feeling a tad intimidated. i don't disagree with you but it was just a generalisation, of course. i agree that one's atar score does not immediately relate to their intelligence but it's at least an indication even if it's just the slightest. rote-learning or not, there are skills used in studying/this whole vce process that i personally think are involved with some sectors of intelligence. like i said, it was just a generalisation as a response to the ridiculous notion of people seeing one's atar as a tool to rate the level of 'going-outability'.

ps. yeah, i know a few nerds rockin' out to 'i'm sexy and i know it'. nah, 'questionable music tastes'? also a matter of opinion.

Sorry, I am very analytical - I was kicking myself that I put "wrote" instead of "rote" when I re-read. Pedantry is a hobby, right?  Studying skills, yeah, they could be important and I think they would be pro rata to your ATAR. I could agree with that.

I rock out to LMFAO. Problem? 

May I remind you that LMFAO lead to this spin-off?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFjLMrI5hZI

EVERYDAY IM STUDYING.

There's another version :O

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HZfoJuB8-8&feature=relmfu

[nisha]

Vce is over. Nobody should give a fuck about what their atar was, people should be grateful they even had the opppurtunity to get one. Honestly I've completely forgotten about atars because it simply does not matter anymore, it's only to get you into a course then it's upwards from there..

I think we have our conclusion here.

[JellyDonut]

My ex-girlfriend broke up with me because I got a higher ATAR than her.

She sounds like a horrible person, no offence

[paulsterio]

That's why in High School you don't go for someone who is in the same year level as you

(Worked for me - I guess)