How tight are schools with the 80% attendance requirement?

[boysenberry]

If you get less than 80% attendance for a particular subject during the course of a semester do you automatically fail that subject? How lenient are schools with poor attendance? just wanting to know coz loads of my friends have been missing out on loads of classes...if they get less than 80% attendance for a particular subject, will they get no study score for the subject?
Are students who have less than 80% attendance usually allowed to sit their exams?

[_avO]

Well my school is a public school and last year a guy I know got 60% attendance and didnt attend the unit 2 exam for chem, and he still passed the unit :/ No idea how this system works anymore

Unfortunately I don't know of anyone who has under 80% attendance this year (Unit 3 and 4's)

[fady_22]

It's a 90 percent attendance at my school... apparently people have actually failed subjects because of it. I don't think its an automatic fail; they interview you and determine whether or not you should be failed.

[Cthulhu]

what if you get pragnant and haf 2 luk afta a babby?

[superflya]

what if you get pragnant and haf 2 luk afta a babby?

den u hap to do da failin im so solly dez no oda opshunz..not ma fault u haf da babby!

[schmalex]

I dunno but I'm pretty sure I'm under 80% and plenty of other people are away more than me. Although I don't think I'm going to fail because my lowest SAC mark so far in any subject is 85%

[iNerd]

i srsly don't understand this rule; as long as you pass the exams who cares how many classes you attend? :idiot2:

[andy456]

Our school has made it 90% attendence our we "fail"
but no-one ever fails....
a few go to unscored but i dont know if thats cause of attendance

[naved_s9994]

It's a 90 percent attendance at my school... apparently people have actually failed subjects because of it. I don't think its an automatic fail; they interview you and determine whether or not you should be failed.

Yeah, its a 90% at my school too.
I think its stupid though seriously. Because 90% attendence, still is approximately, like roughly 5 weeks off?

Thats HEAPS!

I agree with iNerd, its silly!

[Aqualim]

I'd rather have days off in year twelve, and you should only be required at school if you have assessment tasks due and the rest are optional. This will give us a lot of time to study, and potentially do better in our exams. Similar concept to Uni really.

[Russ]

I'd rather have days off in year twelve, and you should only be required at school if you have assessment tasks due and the rest are optional. This will give us a lot of time to study, and potentially do better in our exams. Similar concept to Uni really.

There are attendance requirements at uni as well. Requiring students to be at school is, as far as I'm concerned, the right thing to do. I suppose how the school handles those under the hurdle is different between schools, but I imagine your friends would need to justify their absence.

[akira88]

90% at my school too. Not very tight though- they make it seem like it, but seriously, I know so many people who HARDLY ever attend class yet they still pass.... it's just all empty threats. I think they just have it just to ensure you attend classes :S

[sgeorge]

It's 90% at our school, and it's enforced.
But no one ever goes under, unless they've been away sick for a while. If that happens, the school just allows us to have make-up sessions with our teacher whenever we have time.

[Russ]

^^
I spent some time away from school in year 12 and when I got back my classics teacher told me not to worry, that he'd marked me as present anyway.

[n.f]

My school has a 3 truancy/10 'real' absences policy per semester. After that you are supposed to fail but each it probably goes quite a bit higher (due to make up classes aka detentions). Some people have been failed on truancies though.