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how to study to get into Melbourne High and Macrob?
Hutchoo:
Dude, the only thing that makes these schools 'better' are shown below:
*Its competitive, almost everyone tries to beat one another (secretly at least)
*They have $$$$$$$$ and resources.
*The cohort is godly.
*MHS is a castle.
*Girls dig blazers.
taiga:
Prestige of MHS/MacRob > any other school I reckon.
You get free periods all the time, "extensive" curriculum just means that they finish the course for most subjects relatively early :) And they have more clubs/interest groups than you can imagine.
Cianyx:
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--- Quote from: Cianyx on October 22, 2010, 08:54:34 pm ---By extensive curriculum, you mean no free periods?
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Eh? I had a free period every day.
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Still nothing compared to Mac Rob. I mean, seriously man. 1st period free and I still can't sleep in? On the other hand, some MacRob chicks get essentially the entire day off
^You know as well as I do that half of those clubs exist to wag class
shinny:
--- Quote from: Cianyx on October 22, 2010, 09:01:18 pm ---
--- Quote from: shinny on October 22, 2010, 08:56:18 pm ---
--- Quote from: Cianyx on October 22, 2010, 08:54:34 pm ---By extensive curriculum, you mean no free periods?
--- End quote ---
Eh? I had a free period every day.
--- End quote ---
Still nothing compared to Mac Rob. I mean, seriously man. 1st period free and I still can't sleep in?
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As far as I'm aware, the only benefits they get is because they either only do 4 subjects due to having done 2 in year 11 and hence have more frees, or because they have Wednesday afternoon off because they don't run a sports program. MHS could also get this double off if you wag sports, but it's actually a pretty good opportunity to participate in a ridiculous range of sports including your typical basketball, soccer, futsul, cricket, tennis, badminton, table tennis etc. to stuff like rowing, weight training, sailing and even breakdancing.
I'd contest the claim about the teachers. There were some genuinely good teachers, with about 3 or 4 teachers having doctorates in their respective fields. While this doesn't mean that they're necessarily a great teacher, I'm sure anyone who's had Dr. G would attest to his epicness. Like any school though, there's obviously a few terrible teachers. Good thing though is that since there's so many smart people around, there's usually a few people who could teach you the content instead of your teacher.
And yes, castles are badass.
iNerd:
Shinny man,,
Huysing?
Basu?
Wright?
Hohlweg?
...I didn't take Physics solely based on the fact that the Physics teaching faculity is useless.
Dr G of course is a legend but to be perfectly honest the teaching standard of MHS can easily be matched and its rapidly becoming an 'old' generation as the school is struggling to find new teachers as more and more retire.
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