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Hey all, just finished my prelim and did atrociously. About middle of the year in the half yearlies and even worse in the yearlies. I think I relied too much on cramming in the yearlies (making notes the night before), studied hard for only the month before exams, not nearly as much before that...

Some guys drew massive penises on the road outside the school the night before muck up day and got caught by the police, detained not arrested apparently. I believe they are suspended, maybe expelled I can't remember because we heard it from a teacher who told us a few other stories involving...

Hey all 4U Maths English Adv Economics Latin (debating 2/3 U) Chemistry ATAR Aim: 98+ (parents want 99 :S )

http://www.english-online.at/news-articles/education/shanghai-number-one-in-world-education-rankings.htm

Well, I know that the Australian education system is ranked above the American by a decent margin (10 ranks or so) based on english, maths and science. But we have dropped in recent years.

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Why are Band 6s and All Rounders etc not private then? i didnt mean median of top 20 student, but top 20 schools. not sure how you interpreted that. And yes, obviously Ruse has which is why i think the current ranking in fact does not show their dominance clearly at all.

Well, i wouldnt see too many flaws with showing % of people with 99+, 98, 95, 90, 80, 70 BUT that gives a lot of privacy away for students. Thus my optimal system would be to keep the current one but also have one for the top 20 which gives the median ATAR of each school and excludes any...

ooft. that's harsh :P , i was just wondering why they use such an inaccurate way of ranking schools when alternatives that dont impede on privacy are available (imo)

And in any case, those failure articles can be run every year. I remember Mt. Druitt has one person passing the HSC from their cohort. not exactly stellar

How so? the current method of ranking still reveals a bit about the school's performance and thus brings into question privacy. I am suggesting a more ACCURATE method of ranking, i dont see how this is more revealing of an individual's performance. And you could only rank top 20 using median...

Fair enough, but if the government is going for transparency in schools this would be another frontier to approach it from. It's not like individual ATARs are being given, rather a school's. Perhaps small schools could be exempt (less than 10 people) as it is rather clear when there are 2 people...

Why not use let's say, median atar though? That's far better at showing a school's true academic performance in the HSC. Again somewhat limited by far better than the current methodology that the SMH uses.

But that is what people inherently assume, that one school is better based on these rankings. It is accurate to some degree, Ruse is obviously smarter than Baulkham Hills or any school. But perhaps NSB isn't smarter than NSG or some other top 10 school. By better here i mean better academically.

Anyone else really hate the HSC ranking tables? People say that Baulko came close to beating ruse a few years ago and so did NSB in 2011 but in reality they are no where CLOSE with Ruse's median atar at 99 point something. I'm not a Ruse supporter or anything, i would probably never go there...

Loving year 11 so far, average of 1/2hr to 1hr homework a night while sleeping/checking NBA scores in half my classes and still pulling good marks :D Edit: well to be honest, I do do all my homework, just dont get much, and pay attention in everything except Maths and sometimes eco and study...