Herald Sun results top achievers

[nickalaz]

Can anyone guess what % of students (high achieving) would choose not to have their results published in the paper?

I'm trying to explain to family that 48 'out of 50' is not 96%...so instead I'm saying I was 34th out of the 10,000 people who studied PE, as 33 people got 49 or 50 and I got 48, is that fair to say?

The whole ranking system, and that I could've scored 20% on my exam and still scored 48, just doesn't seem to click sometimes LOL.

Or is there plenty of people who don't permit the Herald Sun to use their results?
*Sigh* Stupid vce...

Try to explain by relating study scores to a bell curve graph. A lot of people have at least seen them before
Also you can find on VCAA's site somewhere "45 or above = top 2%". From that you should be able to convince anyone who still believes in a linear relationship that 48 is at least top 1%
Link to this page: http://vcaa.vic.edu.au/faqs/vcecurrentstudents.html#H3N100DE

Also, I accidently didn't give permission in 2006, I thought I had but apparently on one form it said no when I called my school angry my results were not published (I swear I had said yes at every opportunity in all that paperwork). Im sure this would happen to other people as well. It's on no by default.

i didn't get mine published because people judge you on your study scores or your enter when they have no concept of what the numbers mean or how they are calculated or even the relative difficulty of attaining these marks. this whole enter score culture is so demeaning.

I agree 100%. however i only came to realise this in the past few days.
although my ENTER was decent, i hate the way you are immediately judged by the number.
If i had my time again, i would have kept my results secret, but told everyone i got enough to get into my #1 uni preference.

[kurrymuncher]

WOW, hard, saw ur name in herald sun. u fukn pwned it. gun.

[hard]

WOW, hard, saw ur name in herald sun. u fukn pwned it. gun.

lool thanks man!
oh and the number 1 ranked person in my legal class got 43 as shown in the newspaper. i was like wtf but yer goes to show you don't have to be ranked first to get the highest mark in the class.

[mtwtfss]

Sorry about that mtwtfss, that kinda came out wrong, no offence intended, I was just surprised that we scored nearly as many 50's as MHS in BM.

And got absolutely OWNED in every other subject

(cbf checking if this is entirely correct, you may beat us in a VET subject, maybe?).

I can get some really embarrassing examples, but thats just immature.

[nickalaz]

are you retarded? he's surprised that his public school from out in the suburbs got nearly as many 50's in BM as MHS...

you can't comprehend that?
back to box hill

[psychlaw]

Sorry about that mtwtfss, that kinda came out wrong, no offence intended, I was just surprised that we scored nearly as many 50's as MHS in BM.

And got absolutely OWNED in every other subject

(cbf checking if this is entirely correct, you may beat us in a VET subject, maybe?).

I can get some really embarrassing examples, but thats just immature.

your school does well...get over it

[hard]

Sorry about that mtwtfss, that kinda came out wrong, no offence intended, I was just surprised that we scored nearly as many 50's as MHS in BM.

And got absolutely OWNED in every other subject

(cbf checking if this is entirely correct, you may beat us in a VET subject, maybe?).

I can get some really embarrassing examples, but thats just immature.

fuckin come down dick head seriously. he said sorry. You are already being immature without posting you're other try hard examples.

[mtwtfss]

Sorry about that mtwtfss, that kinda came out wrong, no offence intended, I was just surprised that we scored nearly as many 50's as MHS in BM.

And got absolutely OWNED in every other subject

(cbf checking if this is entirely correct, you may beat us in a VET subject, maybe?).

I can get some really embarrassing examples, but thats just immature.

your school does well...get over it

I didn't start this shit LOL

[mtwtfss]

are you retarded? he's surprised that his public school from out in the suburbs got nearly as many 50's in BM as MHS...

you can't comprehend that?
back to box hill

Pity I live...55.4km away from the City, and 57.7km away from Box Hill.

[nickalaz]

didn't realise a person could be that stupid

[hard]

Sorry about that mtwtfss, that kinda came out wrong, no offence intended, I was just surprised that we scored nearly as many 50's as MHS in BM.

And got absolutely OWNED in every other subject

(cbf checking if this is entirely correct, you may beat us in a VET subject, maybe?).

I can get some really embarrassing examples, but thats just immature.

your school does well...get over it

I didn't start this shit LOL

stfu

[kurrymuncher]

hey Hard, did your experience in debating help you with legal studies?

[mtwtfss]

Debaters usually become pro at English, apparently you need English for legal, so i'd say hard will say yes, but who knows...thats just my two cents

[hard]

hey Hard, did your experience in debating help you with legal studies?

yes, it taught me how to better express me point and how to argue more fluently.

Debaters usually become pro at English, apparently you need English for legal, so i'd say hard will say yes, but who knows...thats just my two cents

your two cents were correct.

[gemgem49]

Hmmm no one in my school got 40+ for History... we had the best teacher too, disappointing.