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jackster83 said:
Yeah the wait for my uni results was always hell. I can't see how it could take a month to mark and moderate for some classes that had as few as 20 students. :eek:

Still, that's not as stressful as trying to find a job once you finish uni. Things worked out well in the end but what a mind**** the process was.
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A month for 20 students may just be the lecturer being lazy, but it also may not be their fault at all. At the moment we need to go through a moderating process at all stages of assessment. Set the exam - get it moderated. Then, set mark scheme - get it moderated. Mark a few exams, get those marks moderated. Adjust mark scheme, get that moderated as well. Then mark other exams, and get them moderated. All the steps need to be done in order and you can't move on to the next step until the one before it has finished the moderation process. If it doesn't pass the moderating process you have to do it again.

Just to make things a bigger pain in the bum, every stage of the process needs to be documented as well.

And after all that is finished, there is an external moderating process over the whole school as well.

It makes being a lecturer, which can already be a huge time sink, into an even bigger time sink. In the end lecturers generally spend considerably more time tending to students out of class than they are paid for, just because most of them give a damn, but that good will is very quickly eroded when you are forced to get all your marking in within a certain time frame, and you spend considerable amounts of it waiting for your moderator (who is almost certainly a lecturer themselves in some other subject experiencing the same issues you are) to get back to you.

I remember receiving my moderators report back one day before the marks were due in. Great, I can now spend the next 24 hours cramming in exam marking, only to send it off to an external moderating process that will take another two weeks. And then my students can give me the evil eye because their grades aren't up yet despite it not being even remotely my fault.


All in the name of "academic standards" I guess :rolleyes:
 
Got my results this morning, pretty pleased with the result. Only just missed the cut off for my course but hoping i'll still be accepted.

Just glad I never have to deal with the ****heads that are SACE again. The new SACE was horrible. Teachers and students alike despised it, yet the Education Minister reckons we weren't at a disadvantage with it this year.:thumbsdown:
 
Crow-eater said:
Teachers and students alike despised it, yet the Education Minister reckons we weren't at a disadvantage with it this year.:thumbsdown:
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Isn't the final ranking all relative anyway?

So since it's all relative to people doing the same system you're not at a competitive disadvantage?

Sucks if you want to go interstate I suppose.
 

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Got my results this morning, pretty pleased with the result. Only just missed the cut off for my course but hoping i'll still be accepted.
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Wouldn't be too concerned yet mate - the cut offs change every year, and they're artificial anyway. The course is willing to accept X people, and so they take the best X people and whatever the score of the lowest person is, that is what is set as the cut off ranking.


jo - you're correct, of course. It is a disadvantage for people wanting to study interstate if our system is below par, but within the state itself it's all relative.
 
jo172 said:
Isn't the final ranking all relative anyway?

So since it's all relative to people doing the same system you're not at a competitive disadvantage?

Sucks if you want to go interstate I suppose.
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Competitive disadvantage, no. Perhaps disadvantage was the wrong word, but I believe that no one thinks we benefited from the change in the SACE. The disadvantage was that there was so much uncertainty with several aspects of the New SACE throughout the year such as the research project, marking schemes, moderation etc.

You don't want to get me started on the research project...
 
Crow-eater said:
Competitive disadvantage, no. Perhaps disadvantage was the wrong word, but I believe that no one thinks we benefited from the change in the SACE. The disadvantage was that there was so much uncertainty with several aspects of the New SACE throughout the year such as the research project, marking schemes, moderation etc.

You don't want to get me started on the research project...
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Oh, you actually wanted an education instead of a ticket into uni? My sympathies:D
 
Crow-eater said:
Competitive disadvantage, no. Perhaps disadvantage was the wrong word, but I believe that no one thinks we benefited from the change in the SACE. The disadvantage was that there was so much uncertainty with several aspects of the New SACE throughout the year such as the research project, marking schemes, moderation etc.

You don't want to get me started on the research project...
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Oh, don't get me wrong, I hate the new SACE system. From the point of view of a mathematician, it's had the immediate effect of downskilling almost every single engineer, computer scientist, or anyone else who uses university-level mathematics as part of their job. With only four "live" subjects at year 12 level there is effectively no chance of students taking specialist maths anymore.

Currently we have the issue that the Universities expect the students to have taken it (even though it's not an official prereq) when undertaking something like engineering, and so the students encounter a brick wall as soon as they take first semester mathematics and half of them fail out. Eventually the Unis will realise they need to lower the expectations of first semester mathematics in our state because the students can't cope, but then the graduates will either end up less mathematically experienced, or with longer degrees to make up for the shortfall.

It's not good.
 
teaching my little brothers (2 and 4) a couple of the major fundamentals of life.

one they have known for quite a long time, one they are just learning, and the last one is accidental :)


the conversation goes like this:


me: who is good? (or some variation of this)

4 year old: CROWS/RORY!!!

me: who is bad/yucky?

4 year old: umm the ports!!



me: who is good?

2 year old: crows!

me: who is yucky?

2 year old: pr0n. he is very serious as he says this.
 
Crow-eater said:
Competitive disadvantage, no. Perhaps disadvantage was the wrong word, but I believe that no one thinks we benefited from the change in the SACE. The disadvantage was that there was so much uncertainty with several aspects of the New SACE throughout the year such as the research project, marking schemes, moderation etc.

You don't want to get me started on the research project...
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what about the south australian certificate of education board of south australia? :eek:

that name change in itself sums up the entire system. :thumbsu:
 
RIP Bruce Ruxton.

RSL will miss you. Many others won't but you did a good job for the RSL.
 
Watching the big bash tonight, I think it's time to implement the junior cricket rule where someone stands behind the wicketkeeper.

How many little dinks or dabs have gone directly over the keepers head. Out of the 155 runs, I'd suggest as many as 30.

Also, that guy D. Smith from the Sydney side must go to the same dietician as Mark Cosgrove.
 

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Got my BigBash ticket for tonight ahead of time, just to save stuffing around at the gate.

Looked it up on the web, Adults are $20, tickets at Ticketek.

I drop in to Marion today because it's around the corner, and I find the Ticketek outlet (hint: the concierge desk upstairs near the cinemas).

Ticket, $20.
Fees & Charges for one ticket, $5.40
That's a 27% mark-up!!!

Honestly, I've been fed up with CA & the SACA for years, but every season they find a new way to poach my chickens.

Like, in the bar under the scoreboard, there used to be a sign which showed the record number of kegs consumed in a day's play, I have a photo somewhere, it's 80-something v West Indies in 1984 or thereabouts. It's gone now, as the SACA didn't want to encourage binge drinking, FFS.

Grrrrr.

I'll post that photo if I can find it.
 
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Not sure about the keg size... going with 50L.

88 x 50L kegs
~ 4,400 litres of beer

standard schooner served ~ 285mL

= 15,439 beers served.

A fair day's effort... for just The Hill.
 
before i saw that photo i was gonna post 88.

annoys me that i remember random crap like that (that my dad showed me at a shield game when i was about 10).. but cant remember where i put my bloody watch.
 
Sorry to intrude but stumbled across this song and just wondering if it's well know by crow eaters, I've never herd it.

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Thought this would be the best place for it, I went to Darwin for xmas and new year and my mate got his Geelong members package whilst I was there and I thought this was pretty cool as far as things that you can often get.

A blank key, which he duly took down and got cut for his front door.

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Better than some of the stuff I have gotten over the years.
 
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