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Re: How many students commit suicide from a low ENTER?
« Reply #15 on: December 23, 2009, 04:19:14 pm »
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The point is that the student related here, as one of you said, literally put their whole lives into VCE. No matter if it's missing out on a 99.95, or a 49.95, everyone gets angry when they think they do not get something they deserve. This girl probably tried harder than any of the 99.95 students, but got pulled down probably because she stuffed the English exam up. I bet anyone can relate to situations where they believe they have tried enough to get say a 45 but end up getting something like 37. Especially when you miss out on something as big as a "perfect score" by a few aggregates.
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Re: How many students commit suicide from a low ENTER?
« Reply #16 on: December 23, 2009, 04:26:39 pm »
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Still, I believe it's foolish to assume that effort exerted is proportional to results; hard work is merely a prerequisite IMO, it's not the deciding factor.
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2009
~ Methods (Non-CAS) [48 --> 49.4]

2010
~ Spesh [50 --> 51.6]
~ Physics [50 --> 50]
~ Chem [43 --> 46.5]
~ English [46 --> 46.2]
~ UMEP Maths [5.0]

2010 ATAR: 99.90
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Re: How many students commit suicide from a low ENTER?
« Reply #17 on: December 23, 2009, 04:28:30 pm »
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lol, there was a guy at MGS this year who narrowly missed out on being the eight 99.95 by an aggregate of 0.1.  He got 50 in Literature, Philosophy and Legal Studies, as well as a 49 in National Politics and two scaled scores of 48 in Methods and Chinese SL (he's 100% white btw).  He wasn't upset per se, but he was going around saying that MGS had eight 99.95s rather than seven...

And I guess I agree with kyzoo.  The sad reality is that the VCE system is just not "fair"; even if you're naturally the most talented, or the hardest working, if you screw up the exam you've screwed up VCE. 
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Re: How many students commit suicide from a low ENTER?
« Reply #18 on: December 23, 2009, 04:30:25 pm »
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that guy was a humanities genius >.<, if he did a uni extension instead of chinese he would have gotten 99.95. And 43 in methods scales up to 48??
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~ Methods (Non-CAS) [48 --> 49.4]

2010
~ Spesh [50 --> 51.6]
~ Physics [50 --> 50]
~ Chem [43 --> 46.5]
~ English [46 --> 46.2]
~ UMEP Maths [5.0]

2010 ATAR: 99.90
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Re: How many students commit suicide from a low ENTER?
« Reply #19 on: December 23, 2009, 04:32:06 pm »
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ahh well.....not as bad as 'the old days', ur whole score was derived from the end of year exam
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Re: How many students commit suicide from a low ENTER?
« Reply #20 on: December 23, 2009, 04:35:36 pm »
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Quote from: kyzoo on December 23, 2009, 04:30:25 pm
that guy was a humanities genius >.<, if he did a uni extension instead of chinese he would have gotten 99.95. And 43 in methods scales up to 48??

I was approximating.  Around 47 for Methods then.  :p
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Re: How many students commit suicide from a low ENTER?
« Reply #21 on: December 23, 2009, 04:35:47 pm »
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Quote from: kyzoo on December 23, 2009, 04:30:25 pm
that guy was a humanities genius >.<, if he did a uni extension instead of chinese he would have gotten 99.95. And 43 in methods scales up to 48??

about 44 - 45 i think..
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Re: How many students commit suicide from a low ENTER?
« Reply #22 on: December 23, 2009, 04:43:08 pm »
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Higher.  40 goes to 45, and 45 goes to 48, so 43 is about 47ish.  :)
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Re: How many students commit suicide from a low ENTER?
« Reply #23 on: December 23, 2009, 04:44:29 pm »
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Eww I turned this into a "what does raw score X scale to?" thread.
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2009
~ Methods (Non-CAS) [48 --> 49.4]

2010
~ Spesh [50 --> 51.6]
~ Physics [50 --> 50]
~ Chem [43 --> 46.5]
~ English [46 --> 46.2]
~ UMEP Maths [5.0]

2010 ATAR: 99.90
Aggregate 206.8

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Re: How many students commit suicide from a low ENTER?
« Reply #24 on: December 23, 2009, 05:11:11 pm »
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Quote from: brightsky on December 23, 2009, 04:19:14 pm
I bet anyone can relate to situations where they believe they have tried enough to get say a 45 but end up getting something like 37. Especially when you miss out on something as big as a "perfect score" by a few aggregates.

Lol this sounds like me with physics last year. At the start of the year I was like I want nothing less than 43 for physics and then I got a 39 and went WTF? The cruelest thing was that the first text message was my physics score.

But as for the title, I agree with the people saying, students who get some crap ENTER <50, usually don't care about VCE and most who get depressed are people who want perfect and get like a 99 or something. It's all relative to the person as I was personally aiming for something between 90 - 95 (mainly to say "I got over 90").
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Re: How many students commit suicide from a low ENTER?
« Reply #25 on: December 23, 2009, 06:50:14 pm »
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Quote from: jay1993 on December 23, 2009, 04:13:31 pm
Does it annoy anyone how ppl that get, say for example, 99.90 yet are still pissed its not better.
If your not happy with it, i'll gladly take it. :D
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Re: How many students commit suicide from a low ENTER?
« Reply #26 on: December 23, 2009, 09:20:22 pm »
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I just realised, this MGS guy EZ is refering to, he's the perfect example of how difficult it is to get 99.95 without a score scaled past 50.
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2009
~ Methods (Non-CAS) [48 --> 49.4]

2010
~ Spesh [50 --> 51.6]
~ Physics [50 --> 50]
~ Chem [43 --> 46.5]
~ English [46 --> 46.2]
~ UMEP Maths [5.0]

2010 ATAR: 99.90
Aggregate 206.8

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Re: How many students commit suicide from a low ENTER?
« Reply #27 on: December 23, 2009, 09:27:14 pm »
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Hes the perfect example why English shouldnt have to be in your top 4 too. You should have to do an english study but not top 4 IMO. Its most likely the thing that will fuck me over.
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Re: How many students commit suicide from a low ENTER?
« Reply #28 on: December 23, 2009, 09:29:07 pm »
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Quote from: amirite? on December 23, 2009, 12:20:08 pm

You'd have to think that if someone cared so much about VCE the ENTER wouldnt be that low.


but not everyone is equal in their mental abilities.

their best might be not enough.

what could be more frustrating?
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Re: How many students commit suicide from a low ENTER?
« Reply #29 on: December 23, 2009, 09:29:42 pm »
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Quote from: amirite? on December 23, 2009, 09:27:14 pm
Hes the perfect example why English shouldnt have to be in your top 4 too. You should have to do an english study but not top 4 IMO. Its most likely the thing that will fuck me over.

Agree, but many others disagree. Can't remember where the relevant debate/thread is.
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