What You All Get? (2 Viewers)
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I probably should elaborate. If a person came in the top 1% in all three sciences ceteris parabus, and similarly a person came in the top 1% in three humanities (mod his, eco's, ext history) i'm sure you will find using the laz seeker that the UAI are very close.
utopian731
Eudaimonian
listen, "activist", all i was offering was an opinion, just as you are, a little more poignantly than me.
all i was saying, really, is that hsc is not the best indicator and just offering views on what true "smartness" is (you really can't define it, thats the point). When i was speaking about sciences, i was only talking about high school sciences. I consider some of the greatest minds ever to be Newton, Einstein, Galileo (oh yeh, einstein was in the bottom 40% of his senior year, funny, eh)
im glad there are people out there with no fear in letting their emotions rip in forums, so good on you for that
now, why im a bit vexed
Don't make assumptions about people you don't know. But as you have, im forced to retaliate (sorry everyone else):
I, myself, do 4 unit maths and chemistry. Im ranked 2 in 4 unit, 2 in 3unit and worked out i got ~100/120 in the 4 unit paper; i too do chem and enjoy slaughtering the grade. The other half of my units happen to be humanities, so i think have first hand experience on the sciences v humanities issue, dont you?
And if you really care that much, my place in the year (2nd) with reference to my schools performance in recent years and lazseeker gives me a UAI of 99.8-100.00.
Still rekon im just whinging cos im going shit
funny
i hate blowing my own trumpet like that, but you forced me to
but then again, I never once made reference to myself, so why go and make it personal
like sand through the hourglass, these are the days of our lives
*sighs*
all i was saying, really, is that hsc is not the best indicator and just offering views on what true "smartness" is (you really can't define it, thats the point). When i was speaking about sciences, i was only talking about high school sciences. I consider some of the greatest minds ever to be Newton, Einstein, Galileo (oh yeh, einstein was in the bottom 40% of his senior year, funny, eh)
im glad there are people out there with no fear in letting their emotions rip in forums, so good on you for that
now, why im a bit vexed
Don't make assumptions about people you don't know. But as you have, im forced to retaliate (sorry everyone else):
I, myself, do 4 unit maths and chemistry. Im ranked 2 in 4 unit, 2 in 3unit and worked out i got ~100/120 in the 4 unit paper; i too do chem and enjoy slaughtering the grade. The other half of my units happen to be humanities, so i think have first hand experience on the sciences v humanities issue, dont you?
And if you really care that much, my place in the year (2nd) with reference to my schools performance in recent years and lazseeker gives me a UAI of 99.8-100.00.
Still rekon im just whinging cos im going shit
funny
i hate blowing my own trumpet like that, but you forced me to
but then again, I never once made reference to myself, so why go and make it personal
like sand through the hourglass, these are the days of our lives
*sighs*
I was referring to you as going shit, if you look carefully I am offering perhaps the reason for your whinging (note the question mark). Anyhow I'm glad you blew your own trumpet, and being the restrained individual that I am will not blow mine. However whilst you may not be the stereotype of the very people who piss me off that I once thought you were, you still stated how doing well in high school maths and sciences weren't a measure of intelligence. Without going into a long argument why they are, I'm just going to have to leave it as that. Least you're not the dickhead I thought you were.
utopian731
Eudaimonian
Im glad of that then
Look, my opinions are not the complete antithesis of yours, obviously the people who get the UAIs are almost always going to be very intelligent. Its just that this only part of the big picture of "smartness" and you know what? I dont consider myself to be all that close at all to the "big picture". Blah.
just plz dont make further assumptions about me or others, cos i had to make yself look like a dickhead to respond. dont worry, im sure you'll get a better UAI than me (no sarcasm intended)....yada
ill shut up now
Look, my opinions are not the complete antithesis of yours, obviously the people who get the UAIs are almost always going to be very intelligent. Its just that this only part of the big picture of "smartness" and you know what? I dont consider myself to be all that close at all to the "big picture". Blah.
just plz dont make further assumptions about me or others, cos i had to make yself look like a dickhead to respond. dont worry, im sure you'll get a better UAI than me (no sarcasm intended)....yada
ill shut up now
hmmm..i think the UAI is somewhat an indication od a person's intellect. Not wholly though. Like if u can get high 99z then i doubt anyone can question your academic ability. Conversely though, sometimes we have able students NOT getting how mcuh they should, maybe lack of motivation, not enuff effort etc.
spice girl
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Look, guys. The system isn't perfect. I think we've established that yonks ago..
utopian731
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here here spice girl
enough with this thread
enough with this thread
Dumbarse
Member
i reckon they should count skool certificate or even take into account how u went from year 7 onwards.
what did you all get for skool certificate in maths ppl like spicegirl, bjack??
what did you all get for skool certificate in maths ppl like spicegirl, bjack??
spice girl
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i think i got 99 in maths...
utopian731
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100
Sc certificate maths is kinda who can draw the prettiest looking rectangles
Sc certificate maths is kinda who can draw the prettiest looking rectangles
BlackJack
Vertigo!
lol, some ppl keeping on joking that I failed because I got 99 
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.spice girl
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well the test was a joke.
I do shit in easy papers, and well in hard papers.
So 99 is pretty much what I expected.
I do shit in easy papers, and well in hard papers.
So 99 is pretty much what I expected.
Dumbarse
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yeh i got 96 in maths and 94 in science so i thought ppl like spice and bjack would have come close to 100