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what i need: 90/88/88/80
my predictions: 90/85/84/72
what im actually getting: 85/82/81/68

(already have a good mark from last year, so thats why 4 subjects)
 
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Shit went down a bit last year so I ended up only doing two subjects in 2013, Standard English and General Maths. I hardly studied for General Maths at all because I was completely focussed on bumping up my mediocre English score because I got an embarrassing 47% on my trial, still ranked first which says something about how low my school is ranked. Got 77 in English which is a reasonable improvement considering I was expected to fail (not really knowing the system at that point in time) and got 90 in General Maths without really studying, which I was quite happy with, although is very much down to the ease of the subject. My total ineptitude at English still astounds me considering I am a decent writer in the humanities but can be pretty well explained by a complete lack of creative talent, an inability to understand poetry, a general lack of interest in fiction and what I now recognise as pretty appalling study techniques.

This year I had my three humanities subjects; Economics, Business Studies and Legal Studies. I have developed better study techniques, which is understandable because the first exam I had ever studied for was my English HSC last year, as going to school ranked in the mid500s and lower I was able to skate through, ranked first on natural ability without trying. (Seriously, after my English exam last year I asked my English teacher how to study, because I had no idea). Having gotten 90+ in every assessment this year and in every exam bar two trials (89% for Legal and Business) and having done ~20-25 past papers including HSC and Independent trials and having them marked by my teachers and getting marks in the Band Six territory for all and having got two 96s and a 95 as internal marks (I was told), I should be pretty confident and I largely am. Especially as in the HSC I got 18/20 for multiple choice in all three in five minutes (checked along with answers here). However, I'm still a little hesitant that I've been marked easily, especially when I see people here saying that they wrote 15+ page essays which seem impossible to me, even when I had iirc around two hours to do my essays on my exams due to extra time I had gotten myself on other sections I got nowhere near that, and quite frankly I don't see how I could.

Anyway, 84 leaves me a fair bit of room for generous internal marking anyway, according to ATAR calculators, I need an average of 84 across my three subjects (bit of a coincidence), that should be eminently doable, hell, if my teachers' marking is accurate I'll be close to at least a state rank, which seems ridiculous.
 
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wdhc15 said:
Shit went down a bit last year so I ended up only doing two subjects in 2013, Standard English and General Maths. I hardly studied for General Maths at all because I was completely focussed on bumping up my mediocre English score because I got an embarrassing 47% on my trial, still ranked first which says something about how low my school is ranked. Got 77 in English which is a reasonable improvement considering I was expected to fail (not really knowing the system at that point in time) and got 90 in General Maths without really studying, which I was quite happy with, although is very much down to the ease of the subject. My total ineptitude at English still astounds me considering I am a decent writer in the humanities but can be pretty well explained by a complete lack of creative talent, an inability to understand poetry, a general lack of interest in fiction and what I now recognise as pretty appalling study techniques.

This year I had my three humanities subjects; Economics, Business Studies and Legal Studies. I have developed better study techniques, which is understandable because the first exam I had ever studied for was my English HSC last year, as going to school ranked in the mid500s and lower I was able to skate through, ranked first on natural ability without trying. (Seriously, after my English exam last year I asked my English teacher how to study, because I had no idea). Having gotten 90+ in every assessment this year and in every exam bar two trials (89% for Legal and Business) and having done ~20-25 past papers including HSC and Independent trials and having them marked by my teachers and getting marks in the Band Six territory for all and having got two 96s and a 95 as internal marks (I was told), I should be pretty confident and I largely am. Especially as in the HSC I got 18/20 for multiple choice in all three in five minutes (checked along with answers here). However, I'm still a little hesitant that I've been marked easily, especially when I see people here saying that they wrote 15+ page essays which seem impossible to me, even when I had iirc around two hours to do my essays on my exams due to extra time I had gotten myself on other sections I got nowhere near that, and quite frankly I don't see how I could.

Anyway, 84 leaves me a fair bit of room for generous internal marking anyway, according to ATAR calculators, I need an average of 84 across my three subjects (bit of a coincidence), that should be eminently doable, hell, if my teachers' marking is accurate I'll be close to at least a state rank, which seems ridiculous.
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tl;dr chill the fk out

nourah said:



like dis omg i hope its right
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okay i fucked up how do i do it
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you need to post the entire direct link
 
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astroman said:
smart, guaranteed 99.95
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Punch in all those hsc marks into talents atar calculator. Make my own table tabulating all those scaled marks. Then do the same, converting aggregate to ATARs xD
 
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iStudent said:
Punch in all those hsc marks into talents atar calculator. Make my own table tabulating all those scaled marks. Then do the same, converting aggregate to ATARs xD
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what are some of the more reliable atar calculators? talent 100? matrix? i got no idea
 
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If it makes you guys feel any better, I get my semester 2 uni results from Macquarie University around the same time you guys get your ATAR and it will determine whether I am able to transfer universities or not. Obviously the higher the marks the better the chance.

Aiming for 85+ average mark, wish me luck :)
 
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