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Originally Posted by tichondrius

Slightly off topic but you know I think this is probably the most demeaning part of our high school education system. The HSC becomes a game that people can cheat by knowing tips and tricks and knowing essentially "how to play [the game]" (probably put better as how to cheat it). The fact that a HSC "gamer" (for lack of a better word) can do better than a PhD scholar in his field of expertise is testament to how screwed up it is.

And I believe there is nothing "noble" about exploiting our broken system that rewards students whose smarts are shown only by how they figure out these tips and tricks. I suppose it's fair enough to propose that these students often do show a greater degree of comittment than others who score a lower mark but the disparity between a student who works just as hard and puts in the same amount of hours without tuition, and the guy who has it, is just too great to say that comittment matters THAT much in the higher echleons. But hey I went to tuition myself so even though this message is pretty hypocritical - the word "noble" just made me tick so I thought I'd give my 2 cents.

Just because you failed the HSC!