Vic The GAT

[croweater 41]

Just got back from a horribly boring three hours in a freezing cold room.

As part of a big **** off to the length of the GAT, I, along with thousands of others mentioned George Clooney in my essays.

The Age has picked up on this as well.

So if you mentioned George Clooney, in what context did you slip his name in?

If you've done the GAT before, have you got any good quotes you slipped into your essay?

Mentioned him the fact he was as busy as a bee while on set of his oceans movies. The queen bee sole purpose is to reproduce like geaorge clooney. And a few other references in the material possessions side

 

[Athomas]

The only thing worse then the GAT is doing the GAT not once, not twice, not three times, but four times.

Practice GAT in year 11... we had to mark our own papers.
GAT in year 11 (I did a 3/4 subject)
Practice GAT in year 12... (snuck out if my memory serves me correctly)
Gat in year 12


Was horrendous. And this was last year, before this brilliant George Clooney idea.

EDIT: FWIW, I killed the GAT's MC last year. 48 and 47 "scaled" scores. 40 for the gay essays LOL

 

[legitimatic]

We had to do this in WA too, not sure if they still do it, most pointless thing ever, some of my TEE exams weren't even 3 hours, also in a freezing cold hall, good to see nobody taking it seriously.

 

[SJ]

The only thing worse then the GAT is doing the GAT not once, not twice, not three times, but four times.

Practice GAT in year 11... we had to mark our own papers.
GAT in year 11 (I did a 3/4 subject)
Practice GAT in year 12... (snuck out if my memory serves me correctly)
Gat in year 12


Was horrendous. And this was last year, before this brilliant George Clooney idea.

EDIT: FWIW, I killed the GAT's MC last year. 48 and 47 "scaled" scores. 40 for the gay essays LOL

Practice GAT?

My mate did three real ones.

Did one or two 3/4 subjects in year 11.

Then in Year 12 thought he contracted cancer, dropped all bar two subjects, did the GAT. Turned out he didn't have it.

Had to do the rest of his Year 12 subjects the year after. Had to do the GAT a third time.

 

[blues4flag]

The only thing worse then the GAT is doing the GAT not once, not twice, not three times, but four times.

Practice GAT in year 11... we had to mark our own papers.
GAT in year 11 (I did a 3/4 subject)
Practice GAT in year 12... (snuck out if my memory serves me correctly)
Gat in year 12


Was horrendous. And this was last year, before this brilliant George Clooney idea.

EDIT: FWIW, I killed the GAT's MC last year. 48 and 47 "scaled" scores. 40 for the gay essays LOL

Did mine two years (2007). Can't remember my scores exactly, though I think I got 47/48, 49 and a 50.

It's a pity I couldn't rely on my considerable intellect for my ENTER and actually had to study, which I sucked at (not that I did badly on my ENTER).

/brag

 

[Optimax]

i remember my GAT had something like 5 questions based on the simpsons, which then led to half of my year level get simpsons references into the rest of the GAT

Kudos to the clooney kid, next year i suggest ninjas change it up a bit

 

[Coach Bombay]

I did the GAT about 4 or 5 years ago and I have to admit I have no idea what you guys are talking about with these Clooney references.

 

[Ben the Gooner]

I did the GAT about 4 or 5 years ago and I have to admit I have no idea what you guys are talking about with these Clooney references.

There was a concerted effort for lots of people to just put the words George Clooney into their essays. The first essay was about bees (what fun that was) and the second about material possessions.

A lot of people said things like "George Clooney was as busy as a bee on the set of Ocean's Eleven" or "Hollywood stars like George Clooney have many material possessions".

 

[hamG]

I thought they GAT was for ranking, you get the same score as someone else whoevers school has the higher GAT will be ranked higher. Thats the whole idea of the ENTER scores after all, deciding your future by rank!

 

[Xtreme]

Wish they had these sorts of things back in my year (which already was the first 'experiemental' year for SACS). In the actual exam i took a gamble (which paid off rather well), by answering the questions about Blade Runner.... as opposed to Cabaret - the movie we had to sit through and watch 9027590437 times throughout the year

 

[lifelike_]

I did the GAT three times. One practice, with two real ones.

By the third time I couldn't really give a shit, just rambled on and ended up with all scaled scores over 45.

My sister had it yesterday and I overheard her talking about George Clooney, but I had no idea why.

Great idea. Would have been good if it happened a year earlier.

 

[fishguts]

I'll be doing it next year (year 11 doing a 3/4)

I'll do my bit.

My suggestions are...

George W Bush
Australia's Mark Webber
Kevin Rudd
Chuck Norris
Jack Bauer
Pauline Hanson
Soulja Boy

 

[GreyWind]

Did the GAT last year and the year before, shattered we didn't have anything like George Clooney to put into the essays would've made it less boring. First time I did it was in year 11 so I did it properly like a good little boy, second time I finished in 1.5hrs and spent the rest of the time asleep.

 

[Tex_21]

Yeah, I did it a coupla times. Mate of mine walked out after 40-45 minutes (however long you have to be there), and I never lasted more than an hour and a half. Was useful for me though-had some shit happen, and needed derived scores for my end of year exams. As for the school who didn't let people leave-**** that! Get a new school.

 

[blockman155]

Got mine next year
Regardless of others i'm doing mine on chuck norris

 

[Kerrby]

I stuck Clooneys name on the GAT three times.

My mate stuck his name on the GAT nine times .

 

[Cotchin 9]

I stuck Clooneys name on the GAT three times.

My mate stuck his name on the GAT nine times .

Do you feel massive now?

 

[Kerrby]

Do you feel massive now?

Yes.

 

[PowerIStough]

Got mine next year as I am doing a VCE Subject ( 1 & 2 ) this year.

 

[AndyLesPaul]

Hahaha the photo on that facebook group is priceless.

 

[Kerrby]

Hahaha the photo on that facebook group is priceless.

Do you feel massive now?

 

[AndyLesPaul]

Do you feel massive now?

I didn't do the gat

 

[Team Mo']

"The queen Bee is a bit of a whore, kind of like Paris Hilton who apparently has had sexual relations with none other then George Clooney."

 

[Stubz]

Ahhh the good old GAT, I did it last year and I did it this year again, needless to say it was a joke and I treated it like one... lets just hope I don't have swine flu or anything on the day of one of my exams.

I love it how they always give the artistic pictures at the end which make absolutely no sense and are only based for the creative minded. BTW what were your examiner's like, ? I'm the guessing cranky old crones as usual, funnily they even followed me to the toilets when I needed to go which was a bit awkward, I guess they thought I had a past GAT stashed away behind a mirror or something.

 

[Kerrby]

We had old people at my school. It was quite funny because this old bat was reading the rules from a bit of paper (like she was knew) and just finished saying how you weren't allowed Mobile Phones. Funnily enough, her phone rang and he was telling everyone to ignore it and laughed it off.