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Re: Lowest ATARs at selective/private schools.
« Reply #30 on: January 12, 2011, 11:58:12 pm »
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Quote from: Chavi on January 12, 2011, 11:25:53 pm
Quote from: kevvy on January 12, 2011, 11:15:14 pm
my friend studied his arse off and got a raw 18 in chinese sl.
lol same here with me

That'd be so painful :/

I had a friend who finished this year, and was extremely confident about his PE score. Thought that even though he didn't know that much about the entire course, he had passed most of his SACs he was ready for a great score. Was so confident in fact, that he slept for a big part of the exam! Anyway, he got an SS of 19, and was a little surprised.
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Re: Lowest ATARs at selective/private schools.
« Reply #31 on: January 13, 2011, 12:09:00 am »
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What would the 'great score' have been? 30, 35? To confidently sleep in the exam and then get 19 is ... weird lol
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Re: Lowest ATARs at selective/private schools.
« Reply #32 on: January 13, 2011, 12:35:48 am »
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I know for my year level at least, there was a guy who got like 59 for his ATAR.  It happens.
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Re: Lowest ATARs at selective/private schools.
« Reply #33 on: January 13, 2011, 01:05:14 am »
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Quote from: m@tty on January 13, 2011, 12:09:00 am
What would the 'great score' have been? 30, 35? To confidently sleep in the exam and then get 19 is ... weird lol

Yeah, tell me about it. I'm not sure what he thought he was going to get, but it was probably higher than 35, certainly higher than 19 ha. It's just a problem some people have with not understanding the school system, and that simply passing doesn't get you great scores :/
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Re: Lowest ATARs at selective/private schools.
« Reply #34 on: January 13, 2011, 11:11:32 am »
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Quote from: m@tty on January 13, 2011, 12:09:00 am
What would the 'great score' have been? 30, 35? To confidently sleep in the exam and then get 19 is ... weird lol

Yeah, tell me about it. I'm not sure what he thought he was going to get, but it was probably higher than 35, certainly higher than 19 ha. It's just a problem some people have with not understanding the school system, and that simply passing doesn't get you great scores :/
yeah *A LOT* of people dont understand the system. My mate was getting 100% on sacs throughout the year for PE and thuoght he was gonna ge a 50 even if he didnt do great on the exam :o in the end he got a 40 which is still a good score.
I think schools should tell students how the system works - the marks you need in sacs and exams in order to achieve certain study scores, otherwise most students will have false hope.
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Re: Lowest ATARs at selective/private schools.
« Reply #35 on: January 13, 2011, 11:16:19 am »
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a guy got 37 at my school.
and we got a fwe 99.xx's.
there is always a spread of scores at most schools...
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Re: Lowest ATARs at selective/private schools.
« Reply #36 on: January 13, 2011, 11:55:37 am »
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Yeah we always have one or two who get 40, all up, which seems silly when the majority get over 90. They aren't oblivious to their situation though - they know they won't do amazingly, but they don't realise quite how low they'll get. It's kind of a wake up call for them.

Obviously they just don't prepare well for the exam, so much so our sac marks (eg. english got moderated up at least a whole grade) can't save them.
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Re: Lowest ATARs at selective/private schools.
« Reply #37 on: January 13, 2011, 01:00:09 pm »
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I go to a private school, and none of my group of friends got above 80...besides me....which is weird because they seem to do a lot more study than myself.

Let's see, my friends got....2 in the 40's, a 59, 60, 63...
the rest won't tell me hah.
On the other hand i know another group that all got 80+

I was really surprised. Our year level seriously sucked.  I guess it shows that even a private school can't get you a good ATAR
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Re: Lowest ATARs at selective/private schools.
« Reply #38 on: January 13, 2011, 05:04:52 pm »
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Quote from: taiga on January 12, 2011, 09:22:54 pm
MHS had a lowest atar of about high 60s in 2009, i suspect it could be a tad lower for 2010 judging some of the people we had

Bet you ours will be lower...
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Re: Lowest ATARs at selective/private schools.
« Reply #39 on: January 13, 2011, 05:09:27 pm »
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MHS does have a fair share of duds,
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Re: Lowest ATARs at selective/private schools.
« Reply #40 on: January 13, 2011, 08:35:34 pm »
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Haileybury sent a double sided sheet about the schools 2010 atar results and the principle wrote that 95% of students were in the top 50% so that would mean that 5% of students got an ATAR of less than 50.00
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Re: Lowest ATARs at selective/private schools.
« Reply #41 on: January 13, 2011, 08:41:07 pm »
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Good one Principal!
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Re: Lowest ATARs at selective/private schools.
« Reply #42 on: January 14, 2011, 05:29:54 am »
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Wow... You guys have schools that are miles above the average.

I just copied this chunk of text from my schools annual report from last year:
"It was pleasing to see more than one third of our Victorian Certificate
Education students achieve an ENTER of 70 and higher."

Granted i don't go to a fancy private school or anything like that (catholic, but really its more or less equal to the public schools around here).

I know people who got under 30 if you guys are going for some kind of competition or something
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Re: Lowest ATARs at selective/private schools.
« Reply #43 on: January 14, 2011, 12:51:55 pm »
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eh, this was copied off my school's site - mind you we only had around 50 yr 12's in the year level

The highest ATAR was 99.95
6% of students were in the top 1% of the state
24% of students were in the top 5% of the state
41% of students were in the top 10% of the state
76% of students were in the top 30% of the state
27% of study scores were over 40
The median study score was 35
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Re: Lowest ATARs at selective/private schools.
« Reply #44 on: January 14, 2011, 01:28:26 pm »
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Quote from: Furbob on January 14, 2011, 12:51:55 pm
eh, this was copied off my school's site - mind you we only had around 50 yr 12's in the year level

The highest ATAR was 99.95
6% of students were in the top 1% of the state
24% of students were in the top 5% of the state
41% of students were in the top 10% of the state
76% of students were in the top 30% of the state
27% of study scores were over 40
The median study score was 35

Wow, these are excellent scores! Do you mind me asking which school you go to?
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