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[Blitzkrieg]

When calculating the TER, they also don't count your highest and lowest scoring subjects, and as someone said earlier, subjects that are considered 'harder' get boosted, and subjects that are considered 'easier' get lowered.

I got a fairly high score too, but I could have done heaps better had I actually tried, and had I not gotten in a serious relationship at the start of my final year. Is all good though, score means nothing if you get into the course you want to do, and I did.

 

[TRrEiTxIxRiE DTrash]

Yeah the scaling and everything affects the Study Scores but the TER is simply the percentage of the state you scored higher than. So 25.55 means you did better than a quarter of the students in the state basically... so its not as low as it sounds in that respect. I know somebody who's TER was 7, thats the lowest one I've heard about, coz I think below that pretty much the bottom 5% or so would all have failed and not got a TER.

 

[Shannow]

I always thought TER was "Tertiary Entrance Ranking".

Koichi, is the ACT system still the great system that it was when I did year 12 *cough* 18 years ago ?

 

[KoichCPA]

Koichi, is the ACT system still the great system that it was when I did year 12 *cough* 18 years ago ?

I have no idea, I done my HSC in NSW. The one they do here now though, I don't understand it, no matter how many times it's explained to me.

 

[KoichCPA]

No, it's done.

All those tiny fucking beers you softcock victorians drink, are turning you into twatheads.

 

[Shannow]

Koichi,
the year that I went through, it was supposed to be out of 750 points, but after standardisation, someone got 753 or some thing.

They also decided that girls didn't do so good and gave them a 5% head start (that only lasted for 2 years, then the girls decided that it was discriminatory - saying that they weren't as smart as guys and protested).

Ahhhhh, thems was the days

 

[Winmar]

Bloody hell! Bizarre!

My TER was about 20 above that required for the course I ended up in, so it turned out that I could have bludged through school and still got in. You almost never get asked about your school results once you have a degree anyway.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

Yeah same here Winnie. I did some hard subjects in VCE that boosted my score, and I got like 25 above my required score as well, so all the stress of those hard subjects was for nothing.

 

[TRrEiTxIxRiE DTrash]

My score wasn't very metal I needed about 80 to get into my course and I got well above that, so I could've bludged more too. But then again I pretty much did anyway, I was more stressed about the fact that I should've been more stressed than I was, than about the actual exams and work Everytime someone would say "Ohhh this is so stressful, I was up all night studying!" I'd start stressing that maybe I should be stressed too and maybe I should be up all night studying instead of watching videos. Maybe not stressing about it works best lol.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

I was kind of the same too Troops, worried that I should be more worried.

 

[Sydo]

You can't bludge and expect to get into anything these days.
You even need 60+ to enter Nursing!

 

[serenesorrow]

Things like Drama only need 30 apparently, although you have to be good at it and do an audition or something.

 

[Sydo]

Ok, I'll rephrase. All courses that have slim chance of actually getting you a job require a decent enTER these days.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

My required TER was 57, which is pretty damn low for a good business degree.

 

[Shannow]

The entry scores used to be used to give an indication of the level of skill/effort requried to do the course (some people breeze through with fuck all effort, some people struggle for the same score - the TERs used to reflect that).

Then they started fucking with them to weed out applicants in highly popular courses, medicine and law as examples.

Now te TER tells you F.A. about what you need to be able to complete the course, pretty much only indicating what percentage of the market really want to DO the course.

 

[Sydo]

Yeah, exactly.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

Yeah, they bump it up or down according to the number of applicants, so only the right amount of people they can enroll get a high enough score. That is why they never tell you the TER of a course, but give you last years as an indication, because it isn't calculated until they get applications.

 

[Winmar]

Disability studies at Deakin (where I am) used to be really low, but I don't know if it still is. Purely because not many people want to do it, not because it's a shit or easy course....

 

[TRrEiTxIxRiE DTrash]

Ok, I'll rephrase. All courses that have slim chance of actually getting you a job require a decent enTER these days.

I did MEDIA ARTS, which should not require good high school scores and which certainly does NOT give u a chance of getting a job, and 82 was the score needed to get into that!

 

[KoichCPA]

Smart people have to go on the dole as well trent.

We can't just have yobbo's on it.