yeah, I did better than usual so that was good for me
and nah apparently there is some Board of studies policy that says that they can make a maximum of
50% of internal assessments written exams... and the half yearly was 20 so that left 30 for the trial
it seems no other school has ever heard of this lol...
Yeah, my half-yearly was 15% while Trials is worth 35%.
20% for first prac assessment, 30% for 3rd task.
Yeah there is no way that the hsc is a test of so called true skills... it is a test of who can rote learn the best.
As a person who heavily does this, this is not entirely true... or else I'd be utterly destroying all competition
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There are numerous anti-rote learning aspects of the HSC, despite it being so heavily content/memorising based across many subjects.
E.g. Curveballs 4U Mathematics or curveball questions in Physics or very specific questions in Advanced English.
If it was testing natural ability or aptitude.. I think I wouldn't be able to perform at the top end of the spectra for half of my subs and above average for the other half of my subjects...
the thing is, you cant really say an exam isnt fair because some people make sillies... everyone is doing the same exam and can be prone to sillies.
But then again, there's always the possible situation where:
A naturally gifted Physics student gets lower than a no-so-gifted person internally due to the fact that the second person is more adept at reducing sillies throughout those smaller tests....
Then externally, we see that the first student beats the second person. But obviously, the first student will suffer a lower internal mark because his internal rank was not as strong as his external performance.
(Note - I think I'm similar to the 2nd student here so yeah - at least for my first two Physics tasks
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