for this james ruse thing. lets consider the fact that they only select the best academic students in the state - they are the top selective school in NSW and also the hardest to get into, thus because they have the majority of the brightest kids in our yr, and for the past 10yrs, it only stands to reason that they get the best marks in the state
plus where ur school is doesnt count nemore, that was in the old hsc where westies were pushed down for being in the west and city schools were brought up. they dont do that nemore
and u cant rort the system, it all cums down to ranking. if all there students marks were 98,99 and 100 then they wuld be pulled down considerably by BOS, as if they were doing really easy exams. plus, our school stands by the view that if individual schools dont scale there students, then it works against them. eg our hist x marks were only seperated by 1/2 marks and 1 marks each. if this was sent to BOS then we wuld have all been pulled down from the near ful marks we had to really crap scores.