Is VCE fair?

[AzureBlue]

Also at the risk of sounding like an idiot again: what's tok?? i gather it's soemthing to do with extra curriculars and is a component of IB?

TOK is Theory of Knowledge. CAS is community, action, service (with extra-curriculars) I believe.

[tram]

and theory of knowledge is.............

[Russ]

and theory of knowledge is.............

What it sounds like. A mixture of philosophy and research (although nothing like the EE). They have to write an essay on a prompt discussing something like how "knowledge" should be developed etc.

Wish I'd done IB, the syllabus is very impressive.

Thought on altering VCE, get rid of the bell curve scaling, get rid of ATAR scores. Kids pick subjects over two years (1/2 and 3/4) and then their academic record gets reported to whatever university they apply for. So even if you do a LOTE and specialist and get low absolute marks, the university can still consider that whilst assessing your application

[EvangelionZeta]

and theory of knowledge is.............

Really really bad epistemology - "How do we know xyxy is true?" or something, apparently.

[tram]

and theory of knowledge is.............

What it sounds like. A mixture of philosophy and research (although nothing like the EE). They have to write an essay on a prompt discussing something like how "knowledge" should be developed etc.

Wish I'd done IB, the syllabus is very impressive.

Thought on altering VCE, get rid of the bell curve scaling, get rid of ATAR scores. Kids pick subjects over two years (1/2 and 3/4) and then their academic record gets reported to whatever university they apply for. So even if you do a LOTE and specialist and get low absolute marks, the university can still consider that whilst assessing your application

hmmmmmm i do like that idea..... but it's just too hard for every uni to indivudually assess each student's record, a atar make it so muhc easier to compare applicants..... also awarding scolarships would be an abosulute bitch? how do you qunatitatively compare a insane mark in a subject that is easy to a slightly worse mark in a insanely hard subject?

and theory of knowledge is.............

Really really bad epistemology - "How do we know xyxy is true?" or something, apparently.

epistemology is...........

[slothpomba]

Philosophy of knowledge... in 3 words

Here are more words

[Glockmeister]

and theory of knowledge is.............

What it sounds like. A mixture of philosophy and research (although nothing like the EE). They have to write an essay on a prompt discussing something like how "knowledge" should be developed etc.

Wish I'd done IB, the syllabus is very impressive.

Thought on altering VCE, get rid of the bell curve scaling, get rid of ATAR scores. Kids pick subjects over two years (1/2 and 3/4) and then their academic record gets reported to whatever university they apply for. So even if you do a LOTE and specialist and get low absolute marks, the university can still consider that whilst assessing your application

You'd adding a level of subjectivity there -> One because without scaling, you can't compare subject to subject in any objective sense, and number two, now you have assessors choosing who goes into what course and assessors aren't actually good at that.