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With those ranks a 90+ is extremely possible even with a not-so-good school rank. Try to keep your position stable or better it in trials and then gun it for the externals. It's pretty much up to you here. Have a close look at Maths, though, because 60% seems too low for 2nd place unless you go...

lol thanks :).

Gotta be careful with the dialogue though. If you don't have a natural talent for it then it's something you'll need to pay very close attention to. Too many good stories are undermined by forced, stilted dialogue.

I third the "read widely" suggestion, it's a great way to figure out what works and what doesn't. Experiment with telling the same story in a variety of ways. Choose your themes beforehand so as not to get muddled up in the midst of it. Ideas usually come to me as an image or maybe one/two good...

Modern, none. Only if you do subjects which form background info to your HSC course, such as if you do Indochina in year 11 and the Vietnam War in year 12 or the Romanovs and then Soviet Russia. But you don't need them and none of the knowledge in those units is directly assessable.

Yeah, so it's ten units. It was twelve and now it's ten. But that info is still not enough, and no one can tell you anything without more. However you shouldn't be relying on the word of people on this website. If SAM is not working for you there are at least two other options: JUAI or the UMAX...

Thanks for the add :).

For heaven's sake, plug it into SAM. No one else can begin to help you with this unless you at the very least tell us what your other subjects are and give us your subject and school ranks. Plus everyone's mileage will vary regarding "average/quite good" and you shouldn't be banking on "one/two"...

You're welcome. Too much competition ... ick, but doesn't surprise me. Keep checking around though ... it's only year 11 and there's plenty of time for things to change. If it's not happening though, try a different route. Ask older friends for help, work on things individually etc. If you...

Like lpodnano said, use year 11 as a time to test out as many strategies as possible. Practice learning by reading, listening, explaining or doing. Identify exactly what you don't know how to do and work out who you can ask or what steps you can take to fix it. Form a study group with some...

There's a few things you can do. Get someone else to read what you've written so far and ask them what they think you might do next. Get more people to read it too, and then you'll have a wider range of feedback to work with. Your teacher would obviously be a very good bet, but also the other...

Re: Another ATAR guesstimate thread. My school was ranked something quite similar. I reckon ~95.

Cramming has its benefits IMO. Um, as for other tips ... experimenting with lots of different learning styles is good. Before my HSC exams I was the crazy person walking around the basketball court listening to recordings of my essays and muttering to myself but it worked perfectly - I never...

No problem. Yeah, teachers can be very unhelpful regarding BOS/UAC stuff even with questions about moderation which is one of the only parts of the marking process actually explained to the public. They obviously want to keep themselves covered in case their advice turns out to be wrong or...

Memorised base essays and creatives for every Advanced and EE1 section I ever did and it worked a charm. Nothing wrong with it as long as you go in knowing you'll have to be flexible. OP, I reckon you should stick with Advanced as well. You've got ages to improve your marks. To answer your...

Why d'you have to completely restart it??

Premierships for everyone! Pretty devo for the Storm players though.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but if said student was second in internals AND externals (or even if first and second swapped over) and the first two students were high outliers then I think the student wouldn't be too adversely affected by moderation. The original gaps between students are...

Yeah, essentially all these questions about school ranks and ATAR estimates boil down to two things: 1) check SAM for a general idea and 2) try hard. You don't have to go to a top ranked school to do well.

Yeah, you're not wrong there. Although our history lecturer is trying to encourage us not to do that, so maybe by bringing in Harvard referencing he'd be able to influence students into cooperating.