School Rankings

[MJay1993]

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So the question being then..... how the hell did we (mhs) do so bad? o.O I honestly thought we had a cohort this year that could at least have matched it with last year's

[orangejuice]

does the age have the top 20 schools (or whatever it is) in its paper today?

[pi]

So the question being then..... how the hell did we do so bad? o.O I honestly thought we had a cohort this year that could at least have matched it with last year's

No idea. We were supposed to be closer to the 2009 cohort, we are really down this year. It's pretty disappointing.

[acinod]

I think we're like Melbourne Grammar this year. Had some really insane kids but the rest of the cohort wasn't that great though we never notice it...

MHS is 4th this year...
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/results-reflect-huntingtower-of-class-strength-20111220-1p401.html

[Menang]

Yeah, I still can't find any official rankings or anything, but we were told in final assembly (an annual event where the principal seals the end of school year by highlighting our top scores to psychologically threaten and remind lower year levels that there are big shoes to fill in this factory line of 90+ ATARs) that we topped the state again.

Don't know if this has been posted yet, so here goes.
~15% ATARs over 99.
~88% ATARs over 90.
~43% study scores over 40.
Exactly 31 perfect study scores of 50.
And a median ATAR of 96.7 (which remains less than the AN median, yay!)

[pi]

Huntingtower is so bs, they had a cohort of like 20... Shouldn't be in that list:

[Menang]

Oh wow, sorry just saw the link.

That sucks for Melbourne High. Also can't believe Mount Scopus dropped so much either.

YOU ARE NOT A STATISTIC!

[aes_999]

^TBH pi, we're still 2nd in terms of gov. schools.
Why MacRob, why? 

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[Menang]

^TBH pi, we're still 2nd in terms of gov. schools.
Why MacRob, why? 

Coz we cool like dat.

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[aes_999]

Nah man, MHS represent.
Although it'd probably have to do with
the release of too many awesome games this year.
I blame CoD, BF 3, Arkham Asylum among
many other things.

[pi]

^TBH pi, we're still 2nd in terms of gov. schools.

So? We wanted number #1, we are ALWAYS #2, its hard to get to number #3 for us in that category

Why MacRob, why? 

Several reasons I can think so:
1) They had a very good cohort - full credit to them, they deserve it
2) Our cohort was over-rated, we must have had a lot of disappointing scores
3) Our cohort is considerably larger, chop off our bottom 100 (ie. Mac.Rob cohort size), and we will nearly always win
4) This is just my opinion, but we offer BM and Mac.Rob don't. The bulk of people at mhs end up with low 40s or high 30s in BM (think that it was *easy*) with get scaled down and this reduces our median.
5) Our physics dep sucks, and let us all down (this is the most minor of the issues, but all our other deps are great)

I blame CoD, BF 3, Arkham Asylum among
many other things.

Then you might as well blame all other non-study stuff. Do realise that people in Mac.Rob do other stuff as well as studying, right?

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[aes_999]

Well, there were lots of dud kids on methods and english.
I'm sorry i let you guys down...

[pi]

Well, there were lots of dud kids on methods and english.

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That's not very nice. I wouldn't call anyone a "dud" just because their SS is <40.

That's not the MHS way aes_999, sorry.

[aes_999]

^MHS complex man. U really feel down when u don't
get at least 40. Even then, 40 is brushed off as
a 'pass' in my head, due to MHS expectation.

[Menang]

pi, just on points #4 and #5:

#4: I thought the rankings were determined by % of RAW study scores over 40, in which case having lots of kids get low 40's in BM would help, not hinder?
#5: Trust me, the physics department at MacRob is absolutely horrible too. My friend had to basically teach herself the course, since she didn't get a tutor. But in fairness, MHS has a larger physics cohort than MacRob so a crap physics department would affect stats a lot more.

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