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pLuvia
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I don't understand what you have written but:
It's better to go to a low rank school and get high marks and high ranks than to go to a high ranked school and get low marks and low ranks
It's better to go to a low rank school and get high marks and high ranks than to go to a high ranked school and get low marks and low ranks
Boxxxhead
Local hairy ethnic man
To be honest, it doesn't make much of a difference what school you go to. If you go to a higher ranked school, your subjects ranks would generally be lower, but the people you compete against are more intellectual. Essentially, it's down to your personal performance. The only real instance where going to a higher ranked school may save you is if you rank first in the worse school, and then have a bad day on the HSC exam, which lowers your assessment result too. Nevertheless, the most important thing is to simply try and obtain the best results you possibly can regardless of your school 
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.Mel_b
Member
To my understanding, it happens like this:
High (internal) rank, at a school that performs well in the subject-
If your internal rank is good, and then, for whatever reason, you bomb the externals, your good internal rank and high-performing cohort means your internal will still be good, but you'll keep the bad external.
High (internal) rank, at a school that performs badly in the subject-
If you're well above the level of the rest of your cohort, and rank number one, but then bomb the externals because you've had a bad day or whatever, there's no insurance policy on your internal mark - it just looks like you've come first because of a lack of competition, even if that's not the case.
Low (internal) rank, at a school that perfroms well in the subject -
If you perform poorly in the external, and you have a low rank, the performance of your school probably won't really help you.
If you have a low rank, but perform well in the external, in all likelihood your rank is low because you have a competitive cohort, and when the schools are aligned (this is not scaling) you will receive a good mark compared to the rest of the state, because your entire school will sit higher.
So - your school only ever actually works as an insurance policy on your internal mark - providing everyone performs well on the external. The only way to do well is to work hard - no school will save you if you don't put in the effort, and no school will bring you down if you perform consistently and highly.
High (internal) rank, at a school that performs well in the subject-
If your internal rank is good, and then, for whatever reason, you bomb the externals, your good internal rank and high-performing cohort means your internal will still be good, but you'll keep the bad external.
High (internal) rank, at a school that performs badly in the subject-
If you're well above the level of the rest of your cohort, and rank number one, but then bomb the externals because you've had a bad day or whatever, there's no insurance policy on your internal mark - it just looks like you've come first because of a lack of competition, even if that's not the case.
Low (internal) rank, at a school that perfroms well in the subject -
If you perform poorly in the external, and you have a low rank, the performance of your school probably won't really help you.
If you have a low rank, but perform well in the external, in all likelihood your rank is low because you have a competitive cohort, and when the schools are aligned (this is not scaling) you will receive a good mark compared to the rest of the state, because your entire school will sit higher.
So - your school only ever actually works as an insurance policy on your internal mark - providing everyone performs well on the external. The only way to do well is to work hard - no school will save you if you don't put in the effort, and no school will bring you down if you perform consistently and highly.
michaeln36
Member
the ranking or quality of the school you go to is of NO CONCEQUENCE.
You will receive your fair hsc mark regardless of what school you go to.
You will receive your fair hsc mark regardless of what school you go to.