Dux of year 12 (3 Viewers)
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It's purely multiple choice
thats why there are coaching colleges that make lots of money by cramming students with shit in order to fluke the selective test. Its controversial coz newly arrived Asians that are very bright, but not good at english still manage to get in to the top schools. The govt is now trialling a written english exam from nxt yr
Well I wouldn't get into a selective college then even though I'm pretty smart. This is because I'm crap at multiple choice but am very good at short and long answer responses that require depth.
Yeah, it's been on the news about the coaching colleges guaranteing a place for kids at a selective school at the cost of a lot of money.
yes they are introducing new measures to reduce infant-cramming-scamming-colleges ... and fluking multiple choice isnt too difficult ... there are some not-so bright students at my school who do extremely well at multiple choice ...
the thing is - smart people will obviously do well in mc because they are smart ... but since its mc there is a large element of chance / or eliminating the unlikely ones ... on good days im very good at mc ... one bad days i wouldnt want to be doing mc ...
Nuh-uh. Someone I knew got "30 or below" at a selective school. Complete dumb ass..... he probably fluked it (well he was smart then) when he got in, for year 7. Then, he did 0 work. Fell into all the bottom subjects, rank went to the bottom, marks were all fails. The school cant do anything about it, he just becomes their black sheep really....
(well someone a friend of mine knows who i have met several times)
oh and minai, yeah he probably was asked to leave. but at public schools, you are rarely forced to leave, rather a concerted request with your parents, done by pointing out why continuing will only be bad. I guess his parents thought that if he stayed, a selective school would offer more opportunity to recover... more potential. in reality, it didn't matter what school he went to, he would have done like that....
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nah....I always do hell shit in mc choice questions, even when I know the right answers, for soem reason, I will start doubting myself and colour something else in. And also cause, sometimes I leave them till last and then rush them, or if I run out of time, I just colour something in (or worse just leave it - only happened a couple of times though).
...I have really poor time management skills.
i go to a public school and last years highest UAI was 99.8...not bad eh?......anyway, i hate how people who'll obviously get 30 or below didn't leave school after getting their school certificate....and as for this years dux, that lucky mofo was busy goin' out to concerts while everyone else was busy studying! i also hate people like that! lol
Thats exactly what happens with me, I often find MC q's very ambiguous cause I read to much into them, when only a surface answer is required. That's why I'm always good at shoort and long answer responsees.
