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same as pLuvia... i had to add in another half-story about the old guy though, which happened concurrently as he told his "last story" which was my prepared one. i studied some major points for q1, specially for the 5-marker, but only had 5 mins to do it so mostly forgot them and bs'ed :worried:

Riviet, you took the words right out of my mouth.

reading - 10/15 creative - 11-12/15 essay - 12-14/15 so like 33-36... not good but not terrible. can still recover in paper 2 and get that band 6!

"photographers". i concur.

yes.

giving people false information about the hsc (i.e. saying it is not rank based), which has been proven wrong = lying.

not everyone goes on to finish year 12 - SC marks would be all that people who drop out after year 10 have.

the hsc is about the individual compared to the state as a whole. motivating people may be a noble cause, but perhaps lying to them about the nature of the hsc isn't the way to do it. also, i didn't refute the stuff about info retention etc - it looks like bs to me but i don't have any proof...

yleadbetter: OWNED. selective does not equal private.

CLEARLY this guy has no idea what he's talking about. firstly, in 1994 it was the TER, which is different to the UAI so you can't compare them. second, the reason 17% of people got 90+ is because the UAI works as if everyone who dropped out in year 10 is also doing it (unlike the TER), therefore...

wow that was a quick reply... not very helpful though :)

hey everyone, this is my first post here - i've looked at various documents, SAM, JUAI etc to get an idea of the requirements for a 90+ uai and i just wanted a students' perspective. the ranks aren't flash but i go to manly selective (ranked 27 last year and that was with a shite cohort, we can...