Herald sun top scorers already out? (BOGUS)

[ymanrulz]

Could anyone explain what's going on here? The subjects are wrong but are the study scores right? Not quite sure what's happening.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/special-features/news-in-education/vce/top-scorers

[spectroscopy]

That website is cooked. It said only a few kids from my old school got 40+, in subjects the school doesn't offer, but plot twist: no one with those names goes to my old school so the site is cooked LOL

[winchesteraddict]

That website is cooked. It said only a few kids from my old school got 40+, in subjects the school doesn't offer, but plot twist: no one with those names goes to my old school so the site is cooked LOL

WOW...

[lzxnl]

Could anyone explain what's going on here? The subjects are wrong but are the study scores right? Not quite sure what's happening.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/special-features/news-in-education/vce/top-scorers

I typed my high school's name. It lists girls as part of that school. Something is clearly messed up.

[heids]

EDIT: Conclusion I came to in this rambly post: This is probably a muddled version of last year's scores.  If you see your name, it's probably because you were published last year for a year 11 3/4 - even if the subject, school and number is now messed up.  So relax guys.  I've spent a long time digging round and I'm CERTAIN this is not to be believed, in the slightest.  It worried me at the start though.

You've made everyone on AN absolutely frantic

That's... really weird.

I've been randomly searching everyone I can think of from school/AN.  I searched assuming that the scores were correct, just with subject names garbled.  Spoiler gives my findings.

Spoiler

The scores were absolutely reasonable - if sadly low - at my school and matched up with expected names too; but for the AN peeps I've checked out, they seemed ridiculously low.  Example case studies (hope it's alright to say this guys ): thaaanyan, says she got 40, and while I'd believe she might get that for other subjects, she definitely wouldn't for English.  Again hamo: he wouldn't just get one 42.  I can imagine that this is a work being updated since it's not exactly near release date yet, however, so I could imagine that both those got more 40+ scores that haven't been added.  For instance - it'd make sense that English SSes haven't yet been added to the database or something.

THOUGH: I just searched and found myself in the list with accurate last year scores - but my friends from last year also had their names there, but with some garbled scores.  This is ridiculous and looking more inaccurate than I thought.

I'm a little bewildered, to say the least.  Even if there's some level of truth to them (... pretty sure there could be), they're obviously jumbled, definitely incomplete and probably inaccurate.

That website is cooked. It said only a few kids from my old school got 40+, in subjects the school doesn't offer, but plot twist: no one with those names goes to my old school so the site is cooked LOL

I think the 'search by school' function is broken/not yet coded properly - but if you search for individuals, it says they go to the right schools.  There's every possibility of cooking, but there's also a possibility that it's being currently re-coded and thus has a mixture of right, wrong and last year too.  Moral: you simply can't trust it, so don't.

Hey, sudden thought: is this only people who scored 40+ in a 3/4 last year, with added jumbling?  I'm suddenly feeling like that could be it.  Once I think back, the 2015'ers I found at the school definitely scored 40+ last year (even if the number wasn't the same).  Taking the thaaanyan/hamo case studies, both were probably published last year for one subject, even though the number (for thaaanyan) isn't correct and the subjects definitely aren't.

I'm pretty sure that's right, now I think about it!!!!

If anyone is on there without having been published last year, let me know!

I've emailed the Herald Sun but obviously don't expect a response - if I get any I'll let you know, though.

Sorry this is a rambling post, it was all my different ideas as they came as I dug round more!

[Alter]

good news: I dominated Sport Rec, Philosophy, and Engineering.

Bad news: no ATAR because I haven't done an English.

Seriously though, there's nothing to take from this. It's completely dongled

[S33667]

whoo hooo I got 40 for spesh  (without even sitting the subject)

.... it's still annoying though because it's slightly messing with my head.   Last year I got 2 40+'s but now it's only showing 1  .   I'm trying to tell myself it means nothing but this little voice is going "I was hoping for 2 40+'s".   I hate you herald-sun

[brenden]

Hahahaha just gave a quick edit to the subject line so we don't get sued for someone having a heart attack.

[sjayne]

I typed in my name and it gave me wrong scores for wrong subjects and I didn't even do VCE this year  hahaha

[C.A.T]

None of the people from my school actually go here this year except one who is a teacher now (although it's a relatively common name so may be a coincidence). Watch how the search bar flicks to something else when you click the link.

[thaaanyan]

It keeps changing as well. At first it gave me last year's lit score but for history: renaissance italy.... which i didn't do this year. and then i rechecked and that score was gone, instead it gave me a 40 in hospitality, which i didn't even know was a subject. maybe it's like one of those random number generators; each time you click it shows you a new score, and a new subject??
Also thank you, bangali, for the support. 40 is a brilliant score though, and no matter the number i would be proud of my efforts in English.

[RKTR]

Lol searched my name and it says I did history and music although I didnt do either last year