I believe my school only counts first and second places toward the dux award, with first places being worth more than second places. I only included top 2 rankings.
Which student A,B or C is most likely to get the dux award?:
Student A:
1st place Mathematics
1st place Mathematics Advanced
1st Place Visual Arts
1st place Music 1
2nd place English Advanced
2nd place English Extension 1
2nd place Community and Family Studies
Student B:
1st place English Advanced
1st place English Extension 1
1st place Biology
1st place Legal Studies
1st place Ancient History
1st place Community and Family Studies
Student C:
1st place Chemistry
1st place Physics
1st place PDHPE
2nd place Biology
2nd place Mathematics
2nd place Mathematics Extension 1
Thanks guys
If you meant Mathematics Extension One then it should be student A simply due to the Maths, purely because they are only a rank behind student B in other subjects and maths ext. 1 scales better than any subject B does.
Plus, it could be C purely because if A and B don't get 92+ raw then they will get a shitly-scaling mark in CAFS.
But they have 12 units so they should be fine.
I'm saying A.
EDIT: I didn't read your first line, I'm just going off ATAR.
At my school the competitors for first were:
A:
1st - English Advanced
1st - English Extension
1st - Biology
1st - Economics
1st - Studies of Religion 1
=1st - Chemistry
3rd - Mathematics
(19 points - counting 1st as 3, 2nd as 2, and 3rd as 1)
B:
2nd - English Advanced
2nd - Biology
=4th - Chemistry
4th - Maths Extension 2
5th - Maths Extension 1
=5th - Studies of Religion 1
(4 points)
C:
1st - English Standard
1st - Physics
1st - PDHPE
1st - Catholic Studies (Non-ATAR)
4th - Biology
4th - Mathematics
(12 points)
D:
=1st - Chemistry
2nd - Maths Extension 2
3rd - Maths Extension 1
3rd - English Advanced
5th - Biology
6th - Studies of Religion 1
(7 points)
E:
1st - Maths Extension 1
1st - Maths Extension 2
4th - Physics
=4th - Chemistry
4th - Studies of Religion 1
8th - English Advanced
(6 points)
F:
2nd - Studies of Religion 2
2nd - Maths Extension One
3rd - Maths Extension 2
3rd - Biology
=4th - Chemistry
=8th - English Standard
(6 points)
Guess what order they were?
By your school's system you would assume - A, C, D, E=F, B, right?
Well, really, they were placed - A, D, B, E, F, then 3 more people, and then B.
And B was given our school's internal award for "2nd" (labelled the effort award) even though when we came back we were given award for 90+ (he didn't get an award) and the DUX award was given out.
So your school's system might not be flawed for first but might for like top 5.
(Although, at our school in 2009 some guy was given the internal first award and then the DUX was the guy who got the effort award (he was DUX by >0.5 and then 2nd was some random guy who came first in English standard and General maths and then top 5 everything else, and then the guy who came internally first was like 2 whole points below him even though the DUX's internals would've brought him up (they did most of the same subjects))).
So like, they should just do it on ATAR because people do FREAK THE FUCK OUT during exams, and some of the in-school marking can be swayed by teachers that don't want to look like they have a shit class.
