Joining with MHS, good thing or bad?

[Mao]

As long as you're not placed above me I'm fine.

i will make sure i do just that

[brendan]

As long as you're not placed above me I'm fine.

i will make sure i do just that

ooooh competition

[kingmar]

You would think SACs become easier after you've finished the subject on which they're examined.

MHS SACs are only difficult when you're still learning about the subject at the time.

I don't see any disadvantage by being ranked with MHS. If anything, as long as you post a good SAC score in your own school and perform competitively in the exams, it could be argued MHS will do the rest for you by scaling everything up.

At least, that's the theory.

[?HI?]

but, taking into account that our spesh teacher is by no means (and no offence to him) teaching at the standard of MHS

The teaching standard in general at MHS is not that great, though the maths department is definitely one of the most - if not the most - awesome departments in the school.

I'm still a bit sceptical on how this 'cohort merging' is going to work. Also it seems strange that MHS would agree with this plan, seeing how they already have enough maths students. Having previously studied at MHS, I have to say that in order for the SAC rankings to be fair, you guys should need to do the same SACs as MHS students. If this does not occur, and assuming that your SACs will be easier than MHS spesh SACs, it would only be fair for you to be ranked lower than most MHS students - as MHS SACs are considerably more difficult than an average school's spesh SAC.

[aidansteele]

I have absolutely no idea why MHS would ever do this and seriously doubt that it's happening. The idea of merging cohorts is that smaller schools are able to join together to discount statistical anomalies that would arise by virtue of having a tiny number of students performing any given subject. MHS has well over 150 kids studying Specialist Maths each year and by no means has any incentive to increase the size of that cohort. Maintaining two sets of SACs would just add another level of complexity and bureaucracy that no teachers want.

kingmar: I'm not sure how it was in the subjects you did that I didn't do, but with regards to the ones we had in common (i.e. Methods and English) the SACs were laughably easy relative to the ones we had to do for Specialist.

[Mao]

exactly right. we were rejected last week

[iamdan08]

exactly right. we were rejected last week

So what will happen?

[Mao]

exactly right. we were rejected last week

So what will happen?

we'll find another school....