timobr0 said:
...ANY UAI (or at least a very very high one) is possible with ANY subjects at ANY school as long as you work hard and get good rankings/marks. So don't think you can't get a UAI you want just because you do some "lower" subjects or go to a school ranked 100-200 +..............
i hope you do well also, i dont wanna see any1 fail or commit suicide over something as stupid as the HSC
although you are right there,[partially] it only applies to certain situations
if you are ranked 1st in all of your subjects, what school you go to will not have an effect on your uai, your uai will be determines moreso by your HSC exam results
lol this convo is a riot, not to look down on you lot, but mostly its the 06ers who are saying "anything is possible, follow your dreams!" anf other suck inspirational crap where as my advice is more realistic
the reason why[ and it is a very fair reason] poorly ranked schools and their students get lowe UAI's is because generally these schools have easier internals
its nice enough to say the threadstarter can get any mark he wants, but going off the marks he is getting now, and the fact that he is ranked mid-range, his mark will be heavily effected by how his cohort performs, and its fairly so
so theoretically i should be able to go to a lower ranked school and get a proportionally higher internal result, because lower ranked schools are ranked lower because they do better in their internals than the HSC, but as my HSC result would be the same no matter what highschool iam enroled in[assuming they had the same teaching standard and marks were totally dependant on the student] then i should get a very similar UAI
now the thing about any subject... thats also theortically true, but the reason the scale lower is because they are easier to do, so that means mistakes are amplified, humans make mistakes which is why it is almost impossible to get 100%, even if you know your shit, where as if you knew your shit just as well and also got 99%, the higher scaling subject will make your uai higher
Trembla: yeah i think Sefton is a decent school, if i lived in the area i probably would have gone there
i know what you are saying about the marking thing, but the students also do better in selectives so yeah because we are smarter and so we do betetr in the external, which is what governs the law d scaling and all the reason why hard marking is a good thing is because little mistakes arent amplified as much e.g if alot are getting around 50%, when you forget a decimal place it isnt going to make you drop 10 rankings because every1 will be spread out, but if the test is rediculously easy and every gets 17,18,19-20, that one mark you lost will make you drop 10 rankings.
riot_girl: please grow up, one day you will learn screaming racist at people and telling them what they can and cannot say is bullshit, racist is today what communist was 40years ago, a buzzword used to scare and silence people, but luckily he can 'dare' to say whatever the fuck he wants, freedom of speech bitch