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The PreUni trial selective school test (ASAT) (2 Viewers)
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Hey! I take offence. I'm asian, asians don't always "have" to be better than others. Well, maybe it's kinda true, even if it's one of those stupid stereotypes.
The MOST important exam for her kid?? Is the SST. You kidding me??? Does she seriously send her child to four different coachings??? FOUR??!! Woman must be crazy. I'm surprised to hear he hasn't suffered from any kind of trauma or something. I absolutely hate coaching and how people go "I'm smarter than you, that means I must be better than you."
Coaching SUCKS!!!! Maybe I'm saying that because I'm a kid who hates homework, but still! Poor kid must be suffering. My mum wasn't lying when she said there are people who send their children to coaching 4 times a week.
Just got the news, the boy just got into JamesRuse with a SST score of more than 260. She isn't that crazy after all.................. and the boy is healthy and happy.The MOST important exam for her kid?? Is the SST. You kidding me??? Does she seriously send her child to four different coachings??? FOUR??!! Woman must be crazy. I'm surprised to hear he hasn't suffered from any kind of trauma or something. I absolutely hate coaching and how people go "I'm smarter than you, that means I must be better than you."
Coaching SUCKS!!!! Maybe I'm saying that because I'm a kid who hates homework, but still! Poor kid must be suffering. My mum wasn't lying when she said there are people who send their children to coaching 4 times a week.
Oh. That's good.
Gosh, that's high. A local boy got 259, also went to coaching but he looks like a boy without life in anything else. Typical nerd, glasses and hardly talks and stays away from social activities.
I know some people going to 1 main coaching place and going casually to 1-2 more specialised coaching places for extra lessons on and off. That seems to raise the marks a little more but not a lot. A local boy tried all he could, coached to the his neck doing maths up to grade 8 to prepare for the SS test. But he failed to join his siblings already in James Ruse. This is silly really as you don't find maths that requires techniques from grade 7/8 maths in the SS test. They don't know that SS test is designed to be difficult but should be solvable (efficiently) with grade 6 techniques. Older kids who use higher grades' techniques because they are not good (or never taught) at suitable techniques for younger kids.
BTW, I found out that about 248 is enough to get into James Ruse. Between 246.7 and 248 there are 51 reservists waiting for some one to drop out. It's unexpected. Last year James Ruse cut-off mark was only 237 and about 24 reservists got in. It's really not about James Ruse setting the high marks but it's about parents trying to send kids to James Ruse, and fame pushes fame. The kids with high marks are more likely to do better in the HSC. We no longer know if it's coaching or just that the students are smarter or working harder.
seremify007
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Outta interest why do you care so much about this?
I mean I understand tutoring colleges and how much they can train one in the way of thought to ace the exam, but anyone who takes any kind of confidence or sets expectations based on an artificial or simulated selective high test are clearly more in need of tutoring than those getting tuition!
This is no different to those people who input their marks into SAM (the UAI/ATAR prediction tool on BoS) and keep playing around with it until they get the desired result but failing to take into account that it's likely the UAI cutoff for courses is going to be even more variable than their own inputs into the calculator. And that's presuming the calculator is correct. Retrospectively yes it can be correct but it doesn't guarantee anything in the future so why bother relying on it? Also similar to UAI estimates.
I mean I understand tutoring colleges and how much they can train one in the way of thought to ace the exam, but anyone who takes any kind of confidence or sets expectations based on an artificial or simulated selective high test are clearly more in need of tutoring than those getting tuition!
This is no different to those people who input their marks into SAM (the UAI/ATAR prediction tool on BoS) and keep playing around with it until they get the desired result but failing to take into account that it's likely the UAI cutoff for courses is going to be even more variable than their own inputs into the calculator. And that's presuming the calculator is correct. Retrospectively yes it can be correct but it doesn't guarantee anything in the future so why bother relying on it? Also similar to UAI estimates.