Teacher quality vs Studying

[acinod]

How many ANers actually learned the course from their teachers? The only subjects I actually 'used' the teacher for were english and chemistry...

Now that you mention it...actually never learnt anything from my teachers...

And physics department is horrible at MHS except for two teachers and we they are obvious if you go to MHS. These 2 teachers are amazing.

[aes_999]

Definitely learned BM from Mr. M
His exam tips are the bomb.

[Liuy]

Every school has shit teachers, but you can't put any blame on that.
If you want to attribute it to something, compare MHS and MacRobs Humanities - Legal Studies for example, they just wiped the floor, and our Legal Studies teachers aren't even bad.

For sure.
Maybe girls are really better at Humanities and boys more suited to maths/science (generalising)

Also, MHS had a cohort of ~360 this year, much larger than usual. Could explain the below average ranking.

[BoredSatan]

How many ANers actually learned the course from their teachers? The only subjects I actually 'used' the teacher for were english and chemistry...

GWSC Accounting teachers are the best

[pi]

melbourne high has pretty bad teachers too, though some faculties are better than others, but atm chem and physics are pretty deplorable

Chem is alright, physics is crap

How many ANers actually learned the course from their teachers? The only subjects I actually 'used' the teacher for were english and chemistry...

I did for chem, spesh and methods

[paulsterio]

How many ANers actually learned the course from their teachers? The only subjects I actually 'used' the teacher for were english and chemistry...

GWSC Accounting teachers are the best

I reckon GWSC has decent teachers all throughout, like methods, spesh and physics all have decent teachers. admittedly they may not be as good as private schools, but i've always been happy with them and they've helped their students enormously to get to where they are now

[b^3]

How many ANers actually learned the course from their teachers? The only subjects I actually 'used' the teacher for were english and chemistry...

The only subject that I learnt properly from a teacher was english. This isn't saying that my other teachers were bad (some were really good (chem/spesh teachers) and others I won't say...), it's just I went through the course and learnt it earlier than the class, so when we "learn" it in class it was basically revision for me.

[Sellingman]

How many ANers actually learned the course from their teachers? The only subjects I actually 'used' the teacher for were english and chemistry...

The only subject that I learnt properly from a teacher was english. This isn't saying that my other teachers were bad (some were really good (chem/spesh teachers) and others I won't say...), it's just I went through the course and learnt it earlier than the class, so when we "learn" it in class it was basically revision for me.

Why the hell did you bother learning the course earlier than the class? Wtf is the point of that?

[pi]

Why the hell did you bother learning the course earlier than the class? Wtf is the point of that?

1) Start practice exams early
2) It's way better than NOT finishing the course at all while trying to do a crap load of stuff at the end of the year

[Sellingman]

I still don't see the benefits. You have like 5 weeks at the end of the year before exams where you are basically finishing off whatever you want and doing practice exams. Plenty of time.

[b^3]

I still don't see the benefits. You have like 5 weeks at the end of the year before exams where you are basically finishing off whatever you want and doing practice exams. Plenty of time.

Still when we go through it again in class you pick up things that the others don't because they are still learning it for the first time. Those 5 weeks at the end of the year are packed, you don't want to be still tying up too many lose ends.

It may work for some but thats just the way that works best for me. Keeping in mind I'm not learning the entire course on the holidays, I'm just working through earlier than the class is.

[pi]

I still don't see the benefits. You have like 5 weeks at the end of the year before exams where you are basically finishing off whatever you want and doing practice exams. Plenty of time.

I wouldn't want to be spending any of that 5 weeks LEARNING new stuff, just revision and prac exams only

[Sellingman]

I still disagree, I spent the last 2 weeks before exams relaxing and going out everyday. I had learnt everything I needed to learn throughout the course of the year and was confident for exams, I was if anything behind the class for most of the year.

@pi, why would you need to learn new stuff in that 5 weeks, just go on schedule with your teacher and you'll be done by then.

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[pi]

@pi, why would you need to learn new stuff in that 5 weeks, just go on schedule with your teacher and you'll be done by then.

Not all teachers keep to a schedule, I know that in bio (2010) and physics, we were still doing the course in this period (I and a lot of my class was doing something else).

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[b^3]

I wouldn't want to be spending any of that 5 weeks LEARNING new stuff, just revision and prac exams only

+1

Plus it gave me a lot more time to do practice exams and revise for mid-year subjects, while half the class wasn't prepared because they had only recently finished the course.

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