Attendance- will it affect selective entry? (2 Viewers)

[1857485]

Hi guys,

My attendance has been dog water this year. Term 1 was around 90%, term 2 is gonna be abt 80-85%.
I've missed about 9 full days of school (sickness+holiday), but i have 19 partially missed.
The thing with the partially missed tho, is that i dislocated my shoulder a few weeks ago, so i missed about 5 partial days cos of doctors and stuff, and i struggled with my health in the mornings for abt 7 days (no doctors note tho). The other partially missed days i was just late by like 5 mins lol.
I guess my final question is do you think this will impact my chances of getting into a selective school?

Thanks

 

[Socialism]

depends how your academics are, probably

 

[1857485]

heres my sentral heatmap lol:

 

[Socialism]

or hast
but i hardly even know what that is
(besides the most obvious stuff) -- i mean like how much your grades matter? vs like you say, attendance vs idk extracurriculars? is that taken into account?

 

[Socialism]

i can't help lol and everyone else is prob asleep or knows better than to use a hsc forum at 11pm

 

[1857485]

damn forgot the time, goodnight sleep tight

 

[Socialism]

damn forgot the time, goodnight sleep tight

lmao I've never said this on here but yeh I'm going to bed

 

[spiderlemonade]

i don't think it matters as much as grades + extracurriculars? although the most important thing is doing well in the actual test ofc, so focus on that. does your school include attendance in your reports? cus if they do then the school you're trying to transfer to will likely see it and that may affect whether they accept you or not. but yeah just try your best in the actual test cause thats the most important, and if the school you're trying to transfer to does Edutest instead of HAST i can dm you some notes

 

[hi_998]

Hi guys,

My attendance has been dog water this year. Term 1 was around 90%, term 2 is gonna be abt 80-85%.
I've missed about 9 full days of school (sickness+holiday), but i have 19 partially missed.
The thing with the partially missed tho, is that i dislocated my shoulder a few weeks ago, so i missed about 5 partial days cos of doctors and stuff, and i struggled with my health in the mornings for abt 7 days (no doctors note tho). The other partially missed days i was just late by like 5 mins lol.
I guess my final question is do you think this will impact my chances of getting into a selective school?

Thanks

should be fine, my attendace in term 2 was similar last yr and i made it into sydney girls this yr. i think as along as u are top with ur subjects and do well in the entry test u should be fine. most schools look at ur entry exam marks first and chose before checking the rest of ur stuff (reports, extra cirricular etc)

 

[1857485]

i don't think it matters as much as grades + extracurriculars? although the most important thing is doing well in the actual test ofc, so focus on that. does your school include attendance in your reports? cus if they do then the school you're trying to transfer to will likely see it and that may affect whether they accept you or not. but yeah just try your best in the actual test cause thats the most important, and if the school you're trying to transfer to does Edutest instead of HAST i can dm you some notes

Hey if you have the edutest notes that would be great thanks!

 

[1857485]

Alr guys thanks, unfortunately the record does show up on my report but I should be able to explain it. My academics are pretty good (few major in school awards + academic scholarship 2 years ago), but my english marks have had a bad drop off.

 

[spiderlemonade]

Hey if you have the edutest notes that would be great thanks!

yeah sure i'll send a dm! if you have any questions lmk

 

[spiderlemonade]

Alr guys thanks, unfortunately the record does show up on my report but I should be able to explain it. My academics are pretty good (few major in school awards + academic scholarship 2 years ago), but my english marks have had a bad drop off.

oh rip
do u have any extracurriculars? i think you should be ok if u got good grades and ofc remember to study for edutest but i think you know that haha. extracurriculars can really increase the chances of acceptance, it helps the school decide if you're a good fit for them basically(i have more details about it in the notes i sent you!)

 

[1857485]

I play for the school football team and i've won a few individual awards for that, i play bass guitar and im in 3 bands for school (we've come first and second place in the sydney eistedfodd for our div- is that something i can put on the application?), but apart from that most of my application will be based on individual/gorup awards i've won (aus history comp, da vinci decathlon, etc)

 

[Socialism]

I play for the school football team and i've won a few individual awards for that, i play bass guitar and im in 3 bands for school (we've come first and second place in the sydney eistedfodd for our div- is that something i can put on the application?), but apart from that most of my application will be based on individual/gorup awards i've won (aus history comp, da vinci decathlon, etc)

AYYY Aus history comp
High distinction right here

 

[Socialism]

AYYY Aus history comp
High distinction right here

I never get high distinctions in anything this is like my only one
I've prob only had a few icas distinctions
So like take that "flex" with a grain of salt

 

[1857485]

nice I also got high distinction! Yeah apart from that and da vinci top 5 two years in a row i dont have much non school based certificates so hoping hast/edutest will carry me

 

[spiderlemonade]

I play for the school football team and i've won a few individual awards for that, i play bass guitar and im in 3 bands for school (we've come first and second place in the sydney eistedfodd for our div- is that something i can put on the application?), but apart from that most of my application will be based on individual/gorup awards i've won (aus history comp, da vinci decathlon, etc)

oh thats pretty good!! hope u get into the school that you want!

 

[1857485]

thanks, hope u get in ruse! I'm kinda cooked for maths tho so imma try and speed through all the content in my text book over the next few weeks for edutest.