Intense schools.

[werdna]

This was in a news article. A student from Mac Rob said this:

''It's entirely different from other schools. We were expected to complete a term's worth of homework in one week at Mac.Rob, it was that intense, but it's worth it,'' said Christina Fa, who also received 99.95.


Is it really that intense at the selective/private schools?

[TrueTears]

Is it really that intense at the selective/private schools?

nope

[shinny]

I'd say it was possibly less intense in terms of 'homework' for me. There was a greater degree of freedom for self-study so I could spend time doing what I actually needed to study instead.

[ninwa]

No? What a load of crap.

edit to elaborate: by about term 3 teachers were starting to take the university approach with us, i.e. "do what you want, it's not my fault if you get 0 for a SAC you didn't hand in"

[vea]

I don't think any school in Victoria, maybe even in Australia can be described like that. :S

[Zafaraaaa]

That workload is probably what she expected herself to do, not what the school actually prescribed :/

[Russ]

Doing a term's worth of homework in a week, whilst unnecessary and idiotic, is only going to benefit you.

It also probably prepared her for uni

[tram]

LOLLLL CHRISTINA haha, ummmm yeah, firstly that's just christina, pretty sure that's just how she works, and yeah, it's pretty much how all uni students work haha (e.g. i've done nothing for the past three weeks cos i haven't had an assignment since then and now have to cram it all into today cos i'm leaving tmrw for an intervarsity debating tournment-no work getting done there haha). Not only that but it's how the course is designed, like for accounting we covered l the important bits of VCE accounting in three weeks :/ not. fun.

That workload is probably what she expected herself to do, not what the school actually prescribed :/

Hmm.. that raises another point. Was this workload fundamental to her 'VCE success'?

i guarantee you that she didn't keep up that for the entire year (or anyone else in the state for that matter). She defs did her share (if not more) of partying last year.

Again that's just christina lol

[Slumdawg]

for accounting we covered l the important bits of VCE accounting in three weeks :/ not. fun.

^ Accounting at uni = death  :buck2:

[Predator]

I would say almost zero selection schools are like that.
Maybe university doing the basics of a degree you learn the VCE stuff in a month but not in a week.
Plus it is more or less at that stage they give you the option "You can either do the work and we will help you do the best or you don't need to do it at all."

[tram]

for accounting we covered l the important bits of VCE accounting in three weeks :/ not. fun.

^ Accounting at uni = death  :buck2:

don't tell me you're doing it as breath........... WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING??

[taiga]

I know her Maybe she personally crammed a terms work into a week, the school definitely doesn't make you do that.

[Menang]

Yeah, that's definitely misinformation about selective schools.

I knew her a little bit, it was most probably self-imposed study more than anything.

[appianway]

OMG I REMEMBER ALL OF US SITTING IN THE ROOM WHEN CHRISTINA SAID THAT. IT WAS LIKE THE ONE QUOTE THEY SHOULD NOT HAVE USED. OMG. OMG. OMG.

Yeah, Mac.Rob's more intense. I would say that in years 9 and 10 it's an incredibly stimulating environment, and whilst we did move through the course quickly, most of the work done in years 11 and 12 was student imposed. The Age neglected to mention how quite a few of us were talking about how good the extra curriculars and things were though

[pi]

Only my Russian spesh classes are that intense. I think its an over-exaggeration.