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Re: Top 100 Schools - Daily Telegraph You never know! My school was 580th last year and my class brought it into the top 100 (place = 80) for the first time :) Stoked! EDIT: By the way, by virtue of the fact that my teachers knew we were 580th last year, there obviously must be a list that...

My class took our school from 580th to 80th in the state school rankings this year !!!

98.75 :D So happy.

I think I got my school's first! Stoked!

Yep. Internal is the marks from the proposal,vivas and report. Through these assessments you are given a class rank. The first ranked student is then given the highest external mark and the lowest ranked is given the lowest external mark and the rest are given marks scaled accordingly for their...

Alright, thanks. I didn't think they were out but some people were saying they had found themselves on the list. I suppose they were just assuming they were on it because they had band 6s.

Hey, can somebody send the link to the Achievers List? I can't find it on the Board of Studies website.

Perhaps I have been relying on the textbook too much ('Republic to Reich') which classifies the uprisings of 1918-1919 (Kiel Mutiny, establishment of Workers' and Soldiers' councils: calling for Kaiser's abdication, end of war, democracy and freedom of speech) as 'The German Revolution' as it...

Thanks for the response Cem. Very helpful. I have another question if anyone is up for answering! Once and for all, was it Petain or Nivelle who said the famous line "They shall not pass" concerning Verdun?

Question: The textbook says that the Democratic Republic was created and THEN the Kaiser was forced to abdicate. Wouldn't his position have been destroyed when the Republic was created anyway? Also, what was the significance of the 1918-1919 Revolution (beginning with the Kiel Mutiny)? How...

A good thing to remember with Bruning's deflationary policy is that it kept unemployment high, increasing the people's desperation and thereby stoking the fires of extremism (more people supporting extreme political parties in elections).

Question: The textbook says that the Democratic Republic was created and THEN the Kaiser was forced to abdicate. Wouldn't his position have been destroyed when the Republic was created anyway? Also, what was the significance of the 1918-1919 Revolution (beginning with the Kiel Mutiny)? How much...

Expanding on another reason for Weimar downfall: - Putsches (Kapp+Spartacists as mentioned above) were an expression of opposition to democratic system: In a functioning democracy, ALL parties must support the system (democracy). In Weimar 'Opposition' parties came to mean opposition to the...