Going to school everyday

[nacho]

Hey,
I was wondering, does everyone here go to school everyday?
One of my friends, upon asking me the question was surprised at my response when I asked her if she was serious and laughed at the question. She said she often took days off  to study herself(she was the dux of her school, a not so well-off school btw, still got high 99's) and said they didn't really do anything
Does anyone else here skip like a day every now and then, or wag a period if they have a bad teacher?
My school is incessant in reinforcing the fact that we have a certain amount of unapproved absences, we could fail the subject (i think it was 8 per semester).
I know I got around 10 unapproved last year for a year 11, but that's yr11, i doubt anyone cares about that.
Does anyone actually get failed for missing out like 10+ periods which are unapproved?

[TrueTears]

back in year 12 i wagged double methods periods in the morning consistently lol the teacher was pretty chill with it. i also had a friend who wagged almost every single italian class from term 2 onwards, including those classes where he had sacs LOL but he did get a pretty bad score for that subject

[Russ]

You have to attend 90% or more of classes I'm pretty sure.

I took days off when I was at school, if you use it conscientiously it's not that big a deal

[Souljette_93]

No, i didn't really take of days just to study. Some of friends did, guess we all did okay at the end. It' only if you are not really missing out much at school then it wouldn't matter.

[nacho]

Oh okay,
but say if u manage to only attend 80% of classes, but still kill VCE they won't do anything, right?

[luken93]

I thought it was less than 90%, but is it set by the school and/or VCAA?

[luken93]

All VCE units require 50 hours of class time. A student needs to attend suffi cient class time to complete work. The school
sets minimum class time and attendance rules. Where a student has completed work but there has been a substantive
breach of attendance rules and the school therefore wishes to assign N to the unit, the school must assign N for one or
more outcomes and thus the unit.

[lexitu]

Haha, my school had a "100% attendance policy" that they brought in. Stupidest thing ever. Sometimes there's more benefit from missing class than going to class.

[shinny]

I started skipping a day or two a week in term 4. Term 4 is pretty much all revision and private study classes anyway. My form teacher was cool with it though so we got away pretty easily. But yeh, it's definitely worth it in term 4. Potential benefit earlier if you know that a certain day is going to be fairly pointless, otherwise you're best to attend to not miss any notes and such.

[david10d]

I'm pretty sure most of the teachers don't mind at our school anyway nacho. Heck, look at Kenron.


We should wag chem to study in peace and quite -_-

[HERculina]

im not going to athleticsssss carnivallllll (i dont run, as indicated on my avatar)

[Zafaraaaa]

90% attendance sucks! especially for those days when you don't do much in school anyway..

[taiga]

As much as I hate it, no school before exams definitely benefits your VCE as a whole. I remember there were some weeks in which everyone became mysteriously sick, and the school tried to be tight about it but failed. That said, there was one kid that wasn't allowed to attend speech night/graduation dinner because of it.

Personally I don't think I took any study days as such, rather just before exams I'd bring praccys to school and do them instead of paying attention to teachers.

[crayolé]

Definitely reccomend taking the whole week before exams off. You should already know the content so no teachers needed, just spam the shit outta those practice exams, you'll be reeling in those A+'s ;]

[luken93]

Definitely reccomend taking the whole week before exams off. You should already know the content so no teachers needed, just spam the shit outta those practice exams, you'll be reeling in those A+'s ;]

Just like you killed the prac sesh?