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appianway

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Re: Speech Night Prizes
« Reply #45 on: November 06, 2009, 06:23:13 pm »
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I won't be looking at near a 50, but it's good to know that you can do well without getting full marks.

They're not based on marks? I know that in the past they were based on teachers nominating their top x students in subjects, assiging a number (between 0 and 10), and then an aggregate was assigned, but I thought they were changing it this year. I know that our Chemistry teacher was talking about how all the year 11 Chemistry teachers had to put everyone's marks into a spreadsheet so that the speech night prizes could be calculated...

Did you get the top rank in English Language?
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« Reply #46 on: November 06, 2009, 10:08:04 pm »
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Yes, I'm SM. What are your initials?

No, I ended up getting it. Found out officially today! =) Got Chem, Further, Accounting and General Excellence. I'm on the moon. Really. =D =D =D
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« Reply #47 on: November 06, 2009, 10:44:00 pm »
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My initials were guessed correctly :P

Good work!
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Re: Speech Night Prizes
« Reply #48 on: November 06, 2009, 10:57:48 pm »
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Sorry appianway, [a certain girl who has asked me to edit this post to hide her initials] of 2008 MacRob fame let me in on your identity too.  :p
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Re: Speech Night Prizes
« Reply #49 on: November 06, 2009, 11:05:10 pm »
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Ah well. We can be Facebook friends now :)
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« Reply #50 on: November 07, 2009, 12:38:23 am »
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LOL, appianway! =)
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Re: Speech Night Prizes
« Reply #51 on: November 07, 2009, 12:52:56 am »
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Quote from: humph on November 06, 2009, 01:30:37 am
Oh wow, you guys get awards BEFORE your VCE results? Our awards ceremony was at the first assembly of the next year - I wasn't there for mine, as O-Week at ANU had just started. Think I got French and English prizes, lolz. Ironic considering they were my two least favourite subjects...  ::)
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Last letters of each name E W? If my facebook stalking skills are accurate...  ???

Yes how ironic that prizes for Year 12s are given before VCE results come out.  The people who got the prizes at my school didn't necessarily end up with the best study scores (or even near).  

(I'm just bitter I never got any speech night awards but ended up duxing :P  The teachers (and not the grades) were the main determinant in who got the prizes!)
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appianway

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« Reply #52 on: November 07, 2009, 10:09:31 am »
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I guess it's strange with the prizes at our school, because there's really so little separating the students. The difference is really determined by the exam performance, because the SACs are so heavily scaled anyway. And then teacher preferences would come into play when you have a lot of students attaining similar results...
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Re: Speech Night Prizes
« Reply #53 on: November 07, 2009, 10:44:54 am »
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appianway
Do they have prizes for every subject at Mac.Rob? Like... including Unit 1/2 subjects?
~And how did you find out?
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Re: Speech Night Prizes
« Reply #54 on: November 07, 2009, 10:47:00 am »
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Quote from: polky on November 07, 2009, 12:52:56 am
Quote from: humph on November 06, 2009, 01:30:37 am
Oh wow, you guys get awards BEFORE your VCE results? Our awards ceremony was at the first assembly of the next year - I wasn't there for mine, as O-Week at ANU had just started. Think I got French and English prizes, lolz. Ironic considering they were my two least favourite subjects...  ::)
Quote from: Ilovemathsmeth on November 05, 2009, 10:34:52 pm
appianway, do I know you? =P Initials M. B?
Last letters of each name E W? If my facebook stalking skills are accurate...  ???

Yes how ironic that prizes for Year 12s are given before VCE results come out.  The people who got the prizes at my school didn't necessarily end up with the best study scores (or even near). 

(I'm just bitter I never got any speech night awards but ended up duxing :P  The teachers (and not the grades) were the main determinant in who got the prizes!)

Haha, that's exactly what happened with Synesthetic.  Underappreciated genius much?
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Re: Speech Night Prizes
« Reply #55 on: November 07, 2009, 11:20:30 am »
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@ Twelve_Steps, they only hand out prizes for 3/4 subjects. They also give a science award, and a prize for excellence in english and either history or maths (it's the someone Hutton prize) in addition to the all round academic prizes. You find out if you receive a phone call from the coordinators - I think they've rung everyone now though.

Are you another Mac.Robbian? I can't guess who you are from your signature though...
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Re: Speech Night Prizes
« Reply #56 on: November 07, 2009, 11:26:16 am »
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Oh... I understand now. Because someone was complaining that they hadn't been told they were getting a prize ~ and I think they're top for Physics 1/2...

I'll give you a clue... I was on your debating team last year... :)
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« Reply #57 on: November 07, 2009, 11:30:49 am »
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Ahhh!!

Hello :)
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Re: Speech Night Prizes
« Reply #58 on: November 07, 2009, 11:48:47 am »
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At my school, if you got an award in Year 11 (even for a 3/4 subject), they didn't give it to you until Year 12.

It was a long wait to get those awards.  But that seems to be the case with everything at my old school.  They're presenting me with my dux award on the 19th, so that's almost been a whole year :P
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Re: Speech Night Prizes
« Reply #59 on: November 07, 2009, 02:00:58 pm »
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Quote from: appianway on November 06, 2009, 04:24:02 pm
You're both stalkers!

Ilovemathsmeth, you're SM, right? And who got the Chemistry award? Was it NJ?
Only because you were the only M B on my cousin's fb list (she's another yr11 MacRobber, albeit, unfortunately, not a sciency one).


To be honest, the whole academic award thing is rather pointless - it only means something until the end of high school, at which point no one cares about how smart you may or may not have been, but rather what you're up to next...
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