fleepbasding said:
No, you see, I didn't just increase my capacity to memorise and recall (although they were part of it), I developed better writing skills, constructed better arguments, and developed unique insights. I know the HSC isn't like Uni, but Uni isn't the be-all and end-all of education systems. The HSC, while being inferior, still tests a number of things, including intelligence, knowlege (another way of saying "memorising"), aptitude (especially in writing) and dilligence. It's not perfect or anything, but denying some degree of correlation between HSC marks and intelligence is absurd. While I don't think that people with lower UAI's aren't intelligent, I do think that their is a fair bit of certainty that those at the top end are fairly intelligent.
We're not discussing it DOESN'T correlate, we're saying its a certain kind of correlation, like you said, knowledge/memorising, but it cannot tell you how smart you are.
It is too limited, and tests very minimal criterias for 'success' (you are effectively memorising one essay for the year, and you are allotted a year to 'perfect' and fine-tune this essay, rather than being time-constrained.
Silver Persian said:
I think that while th HSC isn't the best measure of "omg he's an Albert Einstein/Mozart" intelligence, it is a fairly good measure of life intelligence. To go well in the HSC, you need to be organised you need to know what is expected and you need to know how to give what is expected - which are skills that will be relevant in most occupations. Admittedly, some occupations (artist, hospitaliy) don't require the theoretical intelligence so much, but then thos jobs aren't really the ones you get from doing Uni courses. _Most_ UNI courses require similar skills to the HSC, although more independent thought.
And I'd also like to say the rote learning does come in handy in many parts of the actual world.
Furthermore, the abundance of the syllabus and the ever-growing resource list means that most kids are spoonfed, and don't need to develop the skills at all. High School is like a bubble, you are treated within this place outside of other factors, come back after a year and see how your perspective changes.
If you think life intelligence revolves around managing time, then your definition of intelligence is somewhat skewed. Those are life skills, not intelligence.
Most uni courses need the skills, but unfortunately the HSC is becoming more and more spoon fed and stagnant. While you may develop the skills needed, there is nothing inherently special about the HSC which really creates that atmosphere in most of the courses.
after all, they talk about ability all the time in thoes marking guidelines.
