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Originally Posted by Philby my semester 1 results this year: fail fail distinction! semester 2: fail fail pass distinction!

look on the bright side....at least you got 2 D's hey..??

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a good enter score is becomming harder to get.
more and more people want to go to uni.

i got 50, i studyed 2-3 days b4 each exam for about 3 hours each day :|
i done well all the way thru the yr, but its bullshit man, even maths and english got marked down.
i worked out if my shit hadn't been marked down as much as it was instead of 50 i would got about 75 :|

ne way thats all i have to say.

im curious as to how the Victorian system works

care to explain?

this is for year 12 right?

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I aint too sure on how it works, but it's somethin like this

Scores are out of 50. Some Subjects are marked up, some are marked down. After you're exams, you're top 4 scores are taken - English is taken no matter what you get for it - and are added up together, then somethin like 10-15% is taken from the score of ur 5th subject, these are put together n factored out across the state. There's probably more to it, but i think that's the basic jist of it

Oh yea, VCE is done over Year 11 n 12

the 1st n 2nd unit of a certain subject is done in Year 11, then 3/4 in Year 12. If you do a 3/4 subject in Year 11 (which im gonna do) you also get marked up for that

just got my yr. 9 marks back

basically, i have done no work whatsoever over the year, and not much study. Fine you may say, but the major fucking problem is the fact that im at one of those expensive posho private schools

anyhow, i ###### up half my subjects.

I got A's for 3 of them, passed 2 more, got graded for 2 more, and failed/UG'd 2 more.

i had a "meeting" with the principal where they basically spent 20 minutes asking me why i did not do any homework or try, when i went well in all their aptitude testing

i didnt get booted though, so thats ok....

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Originally posted by arctic Fine you may say, but the major fucking problem is the fact that im at one of those expensive posho private schools

Which one?

so your enter score is your rank??

out of 100?

we have a TER in WA - Tertiary entrance rank, which basically ranks you in accordance to the rest of the students sitting TEE in our state - a TER of 90 means you're in the top 10%

they take half your year 12 mark and half your final TEE exam mark then do all sorts of scaling to make things *fair*

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Yea ur TER is ur rank, highest mark you can get is 99.95, ths .05 is supposably yourself

hsc is crap i did it last year, liek 2 months later nothing matters, employers dont care they just want expierience. but anyway good on you all for getting ya marks! enjoy it

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Originally posted by waXology hsc is crap i did it last year, liek 2 months later nothing matters, employers dont care they just want expierience. but anyway good on you all for getting ya marks! enjoy it

werd

i did the HSC back in 98, and yeah .. once you're into uni your TER/UAI score means very little (besides nerdy bragging rights )

i'm not saying don't try, but just remember that the HSC isn't the be all and end all of everything...

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Keep it up, don't stray. There's a lot ahead of you!

Being successful in school & university has a lot to do with attitude/mindset, not just intelligence and amount of time spent doing homework and studying.

This reminds me of when I was back at school and university.
I think year 10 is pretty easy. Year 11 and 12 can be difficult if you want marks above 95%, which I managed to achieve in year 11, and ended up with the Dux award... coming first in 3 unit maths, physics, chemistry and english... but it wasn't without dedication, motivation, and a strongly focused, mature, and competitive mindset, and attitudes of confidence and perfectionism, and even of vengefulness, selfishness and aggression. I've never had tuition because I always believed that I never needed it. Things changed in year 12 and my marks dropped a bit... I think it was when I started associating with people I shouldn't have been associating with. Anyway, I ended up with a TER of 91.4, which I guess is okay, enough to get into the university course I had chosen. 4 unit maths scaled my marks up immensely.

It's amazing how other people can steer your mind in various directions. The people you be with can have an affect on your own success. Being with successful people can help you in becoming successful yourself. I think this is valid for anything in life. The dilemma is that you may want to be with people who are "cool".

I also should mention that psychoactive substances, including alcohol, can severely alter your attitudes/mindset and moods, maybe permanently. It's best left till later if you ever do decide to get into them.

Many employers do look at your TER and subject results. If you have completed a university course, many employers examine your university results as well. I'd rather turn the chances in my favour, so I aimed high in uni as well... got mostly high distinctions and distinctions and a few credits and a couple of passes, I did Computer Systems Engineering. Then again, you'd want to have fun while you're in university. Yes it's that dilemma again.

People will say that the key is "balance". But that's easier said than done. "balance" can become somewhat irrelevant if you are aiming for results of 100% in all school and uni work that you do. Almost everyone can achieve 100% in any work, but the factor that is preventing it is time... more specifically, the limitation of it. Geniuses spend only a small amount of time to be able to achieve results 100% or close to it. But for the rest of us, it takes more effort and time, which means sacrifices may need to be made. It is then up to you to figure out your priorities and decide what and how much you are willing to sacrifice. This is the potential downside of aiming high in your school and uni work... whether it's a downside at all can depend on how intelligent you actually are. Don't forget other factors such as attitude/mindset can strongly play a part as well.

Well, that's my perspective on the topic of academic achievement.
Other people have their own views.

Last edited by Hyperdimension on Dec-19-2002 at 13:31