teenagers that listen to KATG

[Izzydizzy]

Originally Posted by Rock 'n' Rye

Mean while back at the station...

Hello.

howdy

[lissabunnie]

Originally Posted by Izzydizzy

why are your parents out of town or something?

No, they're just both working at the same time.
My mom's a nurse and works Friday night and Saturday night. My dad a copper and works Monday-Friday. So the nights my mom isn't home, my dad's home. My sister is just a scaredy cat. She's gonna be alseep most of the time they're gone anyways!

Originally Posted by Rock 'n' Rye

Mean while back at the station...

Hello.

Hello!

[Big M]

Originally Posted by lissabunnie

cuute!
How old were you in Year 5?
How does the Australian school system work?

Err year 5 is... you turn 11 in year 5.
Kinder from 3-5
Start school in Prep at 5, then year 1, 2, 3...6. That's primary school. You finish when you're 12 at the end of the year. Our calendar year and school year are the same. Then high school from 12-18. Year 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.

Year 11 and 12 you do a highschool certificate. Each state has a different schooling system so I'm not sure. But NSW(Adam) and Vic (Me, Rye, Aine) are basically the same. I do VCE (Victorian Certificate of Education) You need 16 units to complete VCE including 3 units of English. Each unit is a semester. If you fail anything during that semester you fail the entire semester. Year 11 you just have to pass and you get a pass or fail for each unit.
Year 12 all your tests and assesments (SACS or outcomes) form between 33-50% of your year's mark for that subject. Mid-year and end of year exams form the other 50-66%. Your mark for each subject is out of 50 and scaled against every other person in the state who did that subject so that the 2% get 45 and above, 10% get 40, 26% get 35, 53% get 30
They add your top 3 marks plus an English together to get an aggregate which is around 200-300. Then this is somehow scaled to get a mark out of 99.95. Around 32 people in the state get 99.95 but it isn't neccesarily a perfect mark. That used to be called an ENTER (something something tertiary entrance rank) but they decided to change it LAST MONTH, HALF WAY THROUGH THE YEAR to an ATAR (Australian Tertiary Application Rank) which is from what I can tell based on my states model. ATAR is going to be used from this year in all but one state (Queensland are bogans anyway) but it's the first time there will be some sort of national education thingo.
Your ATAR, ENTER, TER, UAI etc depending on what state you live in is how you get into uni courses. Each course has a clearly in ENTER (now ATAR) score and if you get above that you can get into that course if you've taken the right subjects or other entrance exams in highschool
That's my state. QLD and Western Australia are completely different and finish school at 17.

[Izzydizzy]

Originally Posted by Big M

Err year 5 is... you turn 11 in year 5.
Kinder from 3-5
Start school in Prep at 5, then year 1, 2, 3...6. That's primary school. You finish when you're 12 at the end of the year. Our calendar year and school year are the same. Then high school from 12-18. Year 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.

Year 11 and 12 you do a highschool certificate. Each state has a different schooling system so I'm not sure. But NSW(Adam) and Vic (Me, Rye, Aine) are basically the same. I do VCE (Victorian Certificate of Education) You need 16 units to complete VCE including 3 units of English. Each unit is a semester. If you fail anything during that semester you fail the entire semester. Year 11 you just have to pass and you get a pass or fail for each unit.
Year 12 all your tests and assesments (SACS or outcomes) form between 33-50% of your year's mark for that subject. Mid-year and end of year exams form the other 50-66%. Your mark for each subject is out of 50 and scaled against every other person in the state who did that subject so that the 2% get 45 and above, 10% get 40, 26% get 35, 53% get 30
They add your top 3 marks plus an English together to get an aggregate which is around 200-300. Then this is somehow scaled to get a mark out of 99.95. Around 32 people in the state get 99.95 but it isn't neccesarily a perfect mark. That used to be called an ENTER (something something tertiary entrance rank) but they decided to change it LAST MONTH, HALF WAY THROUGH THE YEAR to an ATAR (Australian Tertiary Application Rank) which is from what I can tell based on my states model. ATAR is going to be used from this year in all but one state (Queensland are bogans anyway) but it's the first time there will be some sort of national education thingo.
Your ATAR, ENTER, TER, UAI etc depending on what state you live in is how you get into uni courses. Each course has a clearly in ENTER (now ATAR) score and if you get above that you can get into that course if you've taken the right subjects or other entrance exams in highschool
That's my state. QLD and Western Australia are completely different and finish school at 17.

Is it me or is that a lot more complex than american schooling?maybe thats why were all so stupid!

[lissabunnie]

Originally Posted by Big M

Err year 5 is... you turn 11 in year 5.
Kinder from 3-5
Start school in Prep at 5, then year 1, 2, 3...6. That's primary school. You finish when you're 12 at the end of the year. Our calendar year and school year are the same. Then high school from 12-18. Year 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.

Year 11 and 12 you do a highschool certificate. Each state has a different schooling system so I'm not sure. But NSW(Adam) and Vic (Me, Rye, Aine) are basically the same. I do VCE (Victorian Certificate of Education) You need 16 units to complete VCE including 3 units of English. Each unit is a semester. If you fail anything during that semester you fail the entire semester. Year 11 you just have to pass and you get a pass or fail for each unit.
Year 12 all your tests and assesments (SACS or outcomes) form between 33-50% of your year's mark for that subject. Mid-year and end of year exams form the other 50-66%. Your mark for each subject is out of 50 and scaled against every other person in the state who did that subject so that the 2% get 45 and above, 10% get 40, 26% get 35, 53% get 30
They add your top 3 marks plus an English together to get an aggregate which is around 200-300. Then this is somehow scaled to get a mark out of 99.95. Around 32 people in the state get 99.95 but it isn't neccesarily a perfect mark. That used to be called an ENTER (something something tertiary entrance rank) but they decided to change it LAST MONTH, HALF WAY THROUGH THE YEAR to an ATAR (Australian Tertiary Application Rank) which is from what I can tell based on my states model. ATAR is going to be used from this year in all but one state (Queensland are bogans anyway) but it's the first time there will be some sort of national education thingo.
Your ATAR, ENTER, TER, UAI etc depending on what state you live in is how you get into uni courses. Each course has a clearly in ENTER (now ATAR) score and if you get above that you can get into that course if you've taken the right subjects or other entrance exams in highschool
That's my state. QLD and Western Australia are completely different and finish school at 17.

That sounds really scary, I'm not gonna lie. There are so many tests!

[lissabunnie]

Originally Posted by Izzydizzy

Is it me or is that a lot more complex than american schooling?maybe thats why were all so stupid!

/highfive for the silly americans!

[Izzydizzy]

Originally Posted by lissabunnie

/highfive for the silly americans!

WOOOP WOOOP!

[Big M]

Originally Posted by lissabunnie

That sounds really scary, I'm not gonna lie. There are so many tests!

There's one or two exams per subject and then usually between two and three SACS each semester but SACS can be split up into parts

[lissabunnie]

Originally Posted by Big M

There's one or two exams per subject and then usually between two and three SACS each semester but SACS can be split up into parts

How big are the SACS?
And you might have said it before and I missed it, but what happens if you fail a SAC?

[Izzydizzy]

Originally Posted by Big M

There's one or two exams per subject and then usually between two and three SACS each semester but SACS can be split up into parts

that still sounds like a handful