Our Aussie Year 12 kids have finished their High School life and celebrate together on a Schoolies holiday. They can do no more but wait for their results and their university place offers in January. They have the whole summer ahead of them. They are determined to party hard... Thirteen years at school, and your choice of university comes down to six subjects. For my son who studied the International Baccalaureate this also included one extended essay of 3,000 words one Theory of Knowledge paper. 200 hours of Community, Action & Service and fourteen exams over a sixteen day period. Melbourne University Open day 2014 Our son is currently in Bryon Bay in Queensland He has rented a house, with a swimming pool with nine of his friends at a hugely inflated price. Schoolies, started on the Gold coast in the 1970's when the single-sex private schools headed off to Queensland fo...
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