They do release them. It's just in the form of a percentage of students who got band 6 for each subject. It's somewhere on their official website...so have a look there....brogan77 said:If they could release the statistics that indicate the improvement of students from Yr 10 to Yr 12, I feel this would be a much more accurate indicator (than mere HSC performance) of what the best school is and where parents should send their children, if they wish to give them the best opportunity to fulfill their potential.
thanks oooh our school is 1st in the blacktown-hawkesbury region. win!annabananna88 said:Thanks 4 that
For anyone else who wants it... http://blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/maralynparker/ has it
it is a selective school if thats any consolationMonstar said:This is a lie. Theres no way macquarie fields high school beat my school.
Hahaha that's pretty handy.Trebla said:I read somewhere that at Ruse they run continual statistical information on their students and measure them up to a statewide standard which allows them predict long beforehand what HSC marks/UAI the students will get and where they are at compared to the state hence they know how much they have to improve by come HSC time. Quite an effective mechanism in my opinion, Quinlan must be a statistics freak...lol
the deputy principal mr. wearne (ex-maths head teacher) uses the stats released by UAC to give predictions of UAI. its kinda like SAM really. they normally underestimate you and give you lower than expected UAIs to encourage you to work harderTrebla said:I read somewhere that at Ruse they run continual statistical information on their students and measure them up to a statewide standard which allows them predict long beforehand what HSC marks/UAI the students will get and where they are at compared to the state hence they know how much they have to improve by come HSC time. Quite an effective mechanism in my opinion, Quinlan must be a statistics freak...lol
yes, thats true, if you do really bad in a subject your parents get phone calls from the teacherswatatank said:Hmm question to selective school people. I've heard that schools put heaps of pressure on students, if someone was coming last in a certain subject by a long way, the school would put intense pressure on the student to drop that subject just so the top students don't get dragged down an awful lot. I went (after 6 years, how good is it to say that?) to a selective school and the way I saw it, we were given the opportunity to do well, like if those who wanted to do really well were going to do well because they were talented enough and the resources were all there to be used and all that, and there wasn't intense pressure or anything if students did not want to try particularly hard or was failing?
For students coming dead last in a subject they are not encouraged to drop it because they can't be bothered with the administration procedures.watatank said:Hmm question to selective school people. I've heard that schools put heaps of pressure on students, if someone was coming last in a certain subject by a long way, the school would put intense pressure on the student to drop that subject just so the top students don't get dragged down an awful lot. I went (after 6 years, how good is it to say that?) to a selective school and the way I saw it, we were given the opportunity to do well, like if those who wanted to do really well were going to do well because they were talented enough and the resources were all there to be used and all that, and there wasn't intense pressure or anything if students did not want to try particularly hard or was failing?