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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 21 May 2015, at 4:05 pm, Mark <<a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com" class="">mark@vceit.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">For those of you who like this sort of thing...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><a href="http://www.vtac.edu.au/pdf/scaling_report_2014.pdf" target="_blank" class="">http://www.vtac.edu.au/pdf/scaling_report_2014.pdf</a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><i class="">ITA's</i> mean score of 25.7 is (as usual) a full 2 points behind <i class="">SD</i>.</div><div class="">- It's 0.6 lower than <i class="">Media</i>. </div><div class="">- It ties with <i class="">VET Dance</i>.<br class=""></div><div class="">- But - hey! We beat <i class="">Food Tech's</i> 24.1. </div><div class="">- So... yay!<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><i class="">SD</i> is on a par with <i class="">Drama</i>.<br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">- Sigh.<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And I know you're keen to know... <i class="">Latin's </i>mean score was 45.0.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Perhaps - to attract high-flying students - we should offer <i class="">Latin Numeratics, </i>units 3 and 4<i class="">...</i></div><div class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div class=""><i class=""><b class="">Exam Section B</b></i></div><div class=""><i class="">Question VII - </i><i class="">Rome needs to invade Carthage in the year 246 BCE. Express this year as a negative number in Roman Numerals, and also as binary.</i></div><div class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div class=""><i class="">Question VIII - Suggest a project management tool the Romans might use to plan this Punic war.</i></div><div class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div class=""><i class="">Question IX - Explain how Wifi could have played a significant role in the construction of the Coliseum.</i></div><div class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div class=""><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:12.8000001907349px" class="">Computi te salutant.</span><br class=""></div><div class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div class="">Marcus Satiricus<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:12.6666669845581px" class="">"These are just feelings. They'll go away" - Joey, 'Friends'.</span><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Mark Kelly</div><div class="">mark AT vceit DOT com</div><div class=""><a href="http://vceit.com/" target="_blank" class="">http://vceit.com</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font size="1" class="">Yes, I realise the scaling stats are not meant for satirical hyperbole and misinterpretation.</font></div><div class=""><font size="1" class="">But I hope you appreciate the amount of self-control it required to not mention Biggus, from <i class="">The</i> <i class="">Life of Brian</i>.</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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