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Re: Premier's Awards
« Reply #30 on: December 22, 2012, 01:09:24 am »
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I think it's fair because some subjects esp. languages scale unreasonably high. And if scaled scores aren't taken in to account, then fewer students would get a Premier's, which makes the award more prestigious. (am I going too far?)
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Re: Premier's Awards
« Reply #31 on: December 22, 2012, 01:37:54 am »
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Nah but dont they just take the highest 5 or whatever? I don't think they have a cut off.
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Re: Premier's Awards
« Reply #32 on: December 22, 2012, 01:42:52 am »
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Quote from: nerfsdacier on December 22, 2012, 01:37:54 am
Nah but dont they just take the highest 5 or whatever? I don't think they have a cut off.

Actually, I think you're right. What made me post that before? Probably the not-enough-sleep effect. Sorry!  :-[  :-[  :-[

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But on second thoughts, how do they pick out the highest five in a subject like English where there are so many perfect scores? Do the examiners have a meeting or something?
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Re: Premier's Awards
« Reply #33 on: December 22, 2012, 01:46:33 am »
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Wait sorry I was mistaken, I was referring to the Australian student prize XD seems like lack of sleep is getting to the both of us!
Premiers is top 5 in each subject, for English, I dunno, apparently they look at sac scores? If even those are the same, maybe they read the essays?
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Re: Premier's Awards
« Reply #34 on: December 22, 2012, 01:57:45 am »
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Quote from: nerfsdacier on December 22, 2012, 01:46:33 am
Premiers is top 5 in each subject, for English, I dunno, apparently they look at sac scores? If even those are the same, maybe they read the essays?

Thanks. That makes a lot of sense.

Aargh. I'll go to sleep so I don't mislead anybody else and please do as well.
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Re: Premier's Awards
« Reply #35 on: December 22, 2012, 07:42:07 am »
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Wait, so does the Australian student prize only look at your raw scores and not your atar?? :( oh poo
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Re: Premier's Awards
« Reply #36 on: December 22, 2012, 11:58:33 am »
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Re: Premier's Awards
« Reply #37 on: December 27, 2012, 06:45:41 pm »
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how about if its a smaller subject with less than 5 50s does people like less than 50 hav a chance
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Re: Premier's Awards
« Reply #38 on: December 27, 2012, 09:26:48 pm »
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Quote from: ShiCarnt on December 27, 2012, 06:45:41 pm
how about if its a smaller subject with less than 5 50s does people like less than 50 hav a chance
I'm fairly sure that one of the people who got the award for Systems Engineering last year got a 49, it depends on the number of people who do the subject.
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Re: Premier's Awards
« Reply #39 on: December 27, 2012, 10:27:32 pm »
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Its definately not only top 5. For larger subjects like English it will be more than 5, but for subjects with less students it may be less than 5.
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Re: Premier's Awards
« Reply #40 on: December 27, 2012, 10:28:29 pm »
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Anywhere from 1-10 as far as I'm aware. Which does make it easier to get it in smaller studies
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