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CoolBoi

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Hi everyone,

Does anyone know when people get notified if they got a state rank? And is it a phone call?

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Only first in the state gets a phone call from Gladys a week or so beforehand but state ranks go online at around midday.
 

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how good do u need to be to state rank a subject like bio?
 

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how good do u need to be to state rank a subject like bio?
Put it this way...

A state ranking requires 3 things:
1. Hard work
2. A degree of natural brilliance
3. Luck

You have to understand you are competing against people who are hyper-intelligent, or people who don't care about any subject but (for example) Biology and pour their everything into it.

It's bloody hard.
 

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Put it this way...

A state ranking requires 3 things:
1. Hard work
2. A degree of natural brilliance
3. Luck

You have to understand you are competing against people who are hyper-intelligent, or people who don't care about any subject but (for example) Biology and pour their everything into it.

It's bloody hard.
I got a state rank and it’s kinda random. Sometimes I think they just compared handwriting or something.
 

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oops. never had the ability to state rank to begin with.
Only just realised that not going to dr du means you have basically no chance of state ranking maths unless you put in unreal effort.
Sometimes you just get lucky - honestly state ranking is useless (would rather those extra marks distributed to other subjects)
 

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how does it work tho cause sometimes ppl get full marks in their hsc but then come like 9th in state. how does that work?
Part of it is that HSC marks are shown as rounded but ranks are based on unrounded marks. For example, you could’ve gotten 100 external mark but 99 internal mark (or vice versa). Even though that shows up as 100 as the total, it is actually 99.5 and would rank lower than someone who gets say 100 in both external and internal marks.

For extension courses, ties are typically broken by the relative performance in the lower level course. For example, if two students tie in Maths Ext2 then the student with the higher Maths Ext1 mark gets the higher state rank.
 

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Part of it is that HSC marks are shown as rounded but ranks are based on unrounded marks. For example, you could’ve gotten 100 external mark but 99 internal mark (or vice versa). Even though that shows up as 100 as the total, it is actually 99.5 and would rank lower than someone who gets say 100 in both external and internal marks.

For extension courses, ties are typically broken by the relative performance in the lower level course. For example, if two students tie in Maths Ext2 then the student with the higher Maths Ext1 mark gets the higher state rank.
what he said
 

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Hi
Does anyone know a very good English coaching centre or private tutoring place?
Any recommendations?
 

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anyone get a call from gladys yet? or is there some kinda NDA imposing silence on the state rankers until the 18th
^ wanted to ask this question as well, anyone got a call yet?
 
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