School Rankings

[sunintherain]

Not really fair - the students are still in year 10, so we don't know how they're going to perform in the next couple of years. Might turn out surprising us

EDIT: I'm talking about Nossal btw haha

Ah, I thought they were yr11. That would explain their scores then. Why do they have so many 3/4 yr10s though?

Coz we da best. Nah most of the 3&4 Year 10s were doing Language and they are doing seven subjects anyway so there is still time.

I actually started laughing when i saw our results, they where so shit haha. median ss as 31 means 3 people scored below average

^MHS is still an awesome school,
no matter how bad our class may
perform academically this year.
get over it, whether your number 4 or number 2 it doesn't change that your still a highly ranked school

Moderator action: removed real name, sorry for the inconvenience

[Mech]

Do not understand why people are so obsessed with their school's ranking.

[Special At Specialist]

Do not understand why people are so obsessed with their school's ranking.

Same reason people are obsessed with their favourite football team.
It's about having pride for your people, for your school, for your club.

[Mech]

Do not understand why people are so obsessed with their school's ranking.

Same reason people are obsessed with their favourite football team.
It's about having pride for your people, for your school, for your club.

I do not have a favourite football team. I am not a very competitive person. I have pride for my school, but I do not think the good my school has done for people can be ranked. Small-Medium sized regional secondary school does not compare to all these schools, but I still have pride.  It seems sort of odd to me to worry about percentages; it is all about doing your best. All cohorts are different and have different capabilities. I dislike the fact VCE is such a rat race.

[Jdog]

school pride.

good schools make you gain it.

[paulsterio]

school is like family, you have a natural inclination to defend it, even when you know it is wrong or it might not be the best

[aes_999]

^MHS pride!

Honour the work, and the work will honour you.

[fuzzylogic]

school is like family, you have a natural inclination to defend it, even when you know it is wrong or it might not be the best

^+1
I have spent too much time throughout my life defending my school -sigh-   

[thushan]

Hmm, my school has to defend itself. Thought we had the strongest year level for a while - that's what everyone (esp in the years above us) were saying. Apparently not.

[fuzzylogic]

Hmm, my school has to defend itself. Thought we had the strongest year level for a while - that's what everyone (esp in the years above us) were saying. Apparently not.

dude, you and your co-dux practically ate all the 50s out there.

[paulsterio]

Scotch probably had two really really excellent students, but I think Thushan is talking about the cohort as a whole.

[Jdog]

Scotch probably had two really really excellent students, but I think Thushan is talking about the cohort as a whole.

our ovearll cohort was still very very good,

just not as good as everyone expected. example english: we only had 5 50's but we expected 9-10 ish.

[fuzzylogic]

yeah, to be honest, the same thing happened with our cohort- everyone was expecting at least 3-4 99,95s and a lot of 50s in the maths/sciences...but didn't turn out that way

[thushan]

Hmm, my school has to defend itself. Thought we had the strongest year level for a while - that's what everyone (esp in the years above us) were saying. Apparently not.

dude, you and your co-dux practically ate all the 50s out there.

Says 2010 Dux of State...

[Special At Specialist]

Well I'm super happy with the cohort this year! From Flinders (Tyabb Campus):

In 2010:
Median study score: 30
Number of 50's: 1 (VET Dance)
Highest atar score: 97.90

In 2011:
Median study score: 31
Number of 50's: 3 (VET Dance and two in biology)
Highest atar score: 99.55

Quite a large improvement if you ask me