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How is my question negative? Do students today get a coherent picture or not? Simple as that or just like the old time where there was none. If this is not in the syllabus, I guess it will not be taught and perhaps teachers won't even pay attention to it. I do not attack teachers. If it is not...

Guys, I did math ext 1 around 30 years ago and now my kid is doing it as an accelerant at year 10. I feel her teacher could not give her in depth coverage of the topics. Half of the normal students at year 11 seem to be better than her at coping with the subject due to having one extra year. So...

I have been developing a good program of work and delivery method to help primary school students achieve OC and selective school placement. Now I have the program running with excellent results with near 100% selective school placement and high percentage of OC placement. As I do not drive to...

This is quite similar to Sydney Boys and all of its media attention. The issue also covers Sydney Girls. There are many groups of parents with hidden agenda trying to get their kids into these top 4 selective schools without having to compete on academic merit. Sydney Boys already accept a lot...

Guys, does it mean that if you have very few people doing a course in NSW (say 10), every one will get around 90 or better? In this case would it be best to pick these unpopular courses rather than the tough math ext 2 or Eng ext 2??? After checking the table at...

I think I finally understand this better by looking at the aggregate versus ATAR. http://www.uac.edu.au/documents/atar/2013-tables/2013_HSC_TableA8-A9.pdf ATAR 99.50 requires aggregate 450.00 which I suppose to be the combined scaled marks from both exams and schools for 10 units. When a...

BTW, if 95 can get into Vet science, do it and try to transfer later. Vet is similar to Med and share lots of subjects in the first few years. Parental pressure is not something easy to handle. Many kids today stay with mummy until 30 years of age because it is too expensive to move out. Also...

I understand ATAR ranking and obviously this depends on the year. If the tests are too hard for the year, a lot of students will get low raw marks but that will not alter the ranking as the top performer would get 99.95 as a ranking. I also understand that DAs are not reliable in predicting...

If you have worked hard for 95 and had tutoring to get it, forget the idea of repeating. You are unlikely to do better. You must understand that if you get 99.00 you would unlikely be able to get into medicine with ATAR alone. If you did not work so hard and did not have tutoring to get 95...

When I see a huge slump of DAs by over 30% compared to previous year and a huge fall in school rankings by both all-rounders and DAs, I thought that top students of the school would be in serious trouble but the number of students who got 99.x seemed to stay the same as 2012. As this is a very...

Guys, thanks for the info. Have a look at these DAs and let me know if they are worth 99.50+. The way I see it is that, this student got a few exams over 90 and the rest under 90, so 99.75 seems excessive? English (Advanced) 2 unit (15140), Chemistry 2 unit (15050), Mathematics Extension 2 2...

Hi Guys, I wonder if you detect anything strange about your marks? When I looked at school rankings and results from students I sort of know, things look different from previous years. Some schools fell badly in ranking and some rose unexpectedly. However, even schools that fell in ranking still...

It's been a couple of years since I started this thread. So some update would benefit readers. My nice has now completed HSC and got 97.x and got on the DA list (all subjects at or above 90%). She was tutored to her eyeballs all the way to HSC. But she was actually became lazy and took it easy...

I recently look at science texts and syllabus as my daughter is in year 9. I start to see something is wrong as my daughter does not know many things that I learned long ago since year 6 and 7. She told me that these things were not taught at HS. I then checked with another friend whose son is...

While this may be true for most students because they should not have gone to school in the first place. It would be better if they dropped out at year 10 and learn to become mechanics or plumbers. Most of them don't have the basics. It is all about attitude, values and what you want to do. If...

100% of kids at your age will say that their parents are stupid and need to grow up. 25 years down the track the grand kids will say exactly the same thing to parents and so on. C'est la vie! You are lucky to have parents who tell you the right thing and prepare to support you. Other parents...

Guys, my daughter needs to have a bit of practice on tough math papers for grade 8 and 9. She is in grade 8 doing an advanced math program covering year 8-9 and a bit of year 10 at her school. Any one with math papers from top schools like James Ruse, Sydney Boys, Sydney Grammar and the like? I...

Pressure is on kids regardless where they go. If it is simple as you think, no one would send kids to top selective schools or elite private schools so that the kids can benefit from working along side the tough academic kids. It's just the mad tutoring culture imported from Asia that is...

I have stated my concerns. We have a tutoring free culture and like to have a relaxed school life. I had one and I like my child to have it too. We want balance and a bit of hard work but not too much of it. So we turned down James Ruse to go to private. But we found same pressure. Those who are...

As explained before, the pressure is there regardless what we do. When you get a scholarship or when you pay 25K/year plus, you are pressured. Contentment is one thing and coping with pressure is another. You are on a race-horse's back, you cannot just jump down. It is about trying to make the...