National Education > General National Education Discussion
[offtopic] scaling, private vs public schools, etc
pi:
--- Quote from: Peanuts11 on March 25, 2012, 09:43:47 pm ---Thushan, this is my point, if the 99.95ers such as Cam very genuinely as intelligent and hard-working as their score reflects, why do they need that guarantee? It's crap that 50ish students will get places straight into the MD and that in my opinion, you virtually HAVE to have gone to a private school to get this guarantee.
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That's a pretty strange view on it. These people (mostly) got into their respective school because they were very bright in yr7 or yr9 (or other) entrance exams. Everyone had that opportunity to work hard for those exams (not that everyone prepared, but most who get in do some sort of preparation). edit: They weren't all from the top-end private schools either...
We've already concluded that it is unfair, but we can't change that.
Also, please refrain from using real names whilst on the forum, even if you know them in person :)
Peanuts11:
--- Quote from: VegemitePi on March 25, 2012, 09:48:57 pm ---
--- Quote from: Peanuts11 on March 25, 2012, 09:43:47 pm ---Thushan, this is my point, if the 99.95ers such as Cam very genuinely as intelligent and hard-working as their score reflects, why do they need that guarantee? It's crap that 50ish students will get places straight into the MD and that in my opinion, you virtually HAVE to have gone to a private school to get this guarantee.
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That's a pretty strange view on it. These people (mostly) got into their respective school because they were very bright in yr7 or yr9 (or other) entrance exams. Everyone had that opportunity to work hard for those exams (not that everyone prepared, but most who get in do some sort of preparation).
We've already concluded that it is unfair, but we can't change that.
Also, please refrain from using real names whilst on the forum, even if you know them in person :)
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To be fair, all I remember in years 1-8 were playing on the playground and yu-gi-oh cards, I can't believe people actually had an academic goal etc at this age. wow.
Anyway, I will not use real names anymore.
pi:
--- Quote from: Peanuts11 on March 25, 2012, 09:51:19 pm ---To be fair, all I remember in years 1-8 were playing on the playground and yu-gi-oh cards, I can't believe people actually had an academic goal etc at this age. wow.
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You'd be surprised. I wanted to go to MHS when I was in year 8, and many I know had similar goals at that time. It's actually not that rare tbh.
Sometimes it comes down to parents (which isn't necessarily a bad thing), but the student usually has interest too (well, I did in any case).
Peanuts11:
--- Quote from: VegemitePi on March 25, 2012, 09:54:15 pm ---
--- Quote from: Peanuts11 on March 25, 2012, 09:51:19 pm ---To be fair, all I remember in years 1-8 were playing on the playground and yu-gi-oh cards, I can't believe people actually had an academic goal etc at this age. wow.
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You'd be surprised. I wanted to go to MHS when I was in year 8, and many I know had similar goals at that time. It's actually not that rare tbh.
Sometimes it comes down to parents (which isn't necessarily a bad thing), but the student usually has interest too (well, I did in any case).
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Look, I probably shouldn't say this, but I'm assuming you wanted to be doctors and large majority were Indian/Lankan/Paki/Asian etc?
To be fair, I've changed my view on this. I probably still would've preferred to be playing yu-gi-oh at that age, but if you guys really were committed, I guess good on you.
pi:
--- Quote from: Peanuts11 on March 25, 2012, 09:58:22 pm ---
--- Quote from: VegemitePi on March 25, 2012, 09:54:15 pm ---
--- Quote from: Peanuts11 on March 25, 2012, 09:51:19 pm ---To be fair, all I remember in years 1-8 were playing on the playground and yu-gi-oh cards, I can't believe people actually had an academic goal etc at this age. wow.
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You'd be surprised. I wanted to go to MHS when I was in year 8, and many I know had similar goals at that time. It's actually not that rare tbh.
Sometimes it comes down to parents (which isn't necessarily a bad thing), but the student usually has interest too (well, I did in any case).
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Look, I probably shouldn't say this, but I'm assuming you wanted to be doctors and large majority were Indian/Lankan/Paki/Asian etc?
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No. Of my friends who were keen to try-out, one wanted to own a casino (is now doing engineering), one wanted to become a lawyer (not sure what he's doing), one wanted to become a CEO (I think, it was either this or an accountant... Now doing actuarial studies), two engineer, three or four didn't know what they wanted (in all honesty, doing a variety of things, UoM Science mostly), and me a doctor (although, I wasn't entirely sure tbh).
They weren't all Asian either. Only 3 of the people above were Indian, a couple were Caucasian, the rest were Asian (this kinda reflected the demographics of my class in UHS too, coincidentally).
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