how badly will english standard impact my atar? (1 Viewer)

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i do 4u maths and will that help me carry my atar to 90+ because i really want >90.
assuming i band 6 maths and maybe band 4-5 english???

school is rank 300+
 

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It's pretty doable, assuming you do well in every other subject. I got 98-99 with an 80 in english.
 

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thats amazing! would u mind sharing your subjects & marks to me via pm???
Had to dig through my files to find my marks.

English Adv 80
Chem 93
Physics 92
2u Math 98 (y11)
3u Math 98
4u Math 96
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Also keep in mind that this was more than 10y ago - during a time when math had no formula sheets or multiple choice, and we could leave the hsc early (I left my phys and chem exam after 90mins).

Not sure if that'd change anything, but yeh it was a different era lol.
 

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Had to dig through my files to find my marks.

English Adv 80
Chem 93
Physics 92
2u Math 98 (y11)
3u Math 98
4u Math 96
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Dam a 96 in the old 4u syllabus is godly and even in the new syllabus o_O
 

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Dam a 96 in the old 4u syllabus is godly and even in the new syllabus o_O
Wait wym? It's still the same syllabus as what the y12s are sitting in a few days/weeks lol.
 

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Wait wym? It's still the same syllabus as what the y12s are sitting in a few days/weeks lol.
Oh my bad I meant the old layout, there was no mc and the papers were so much harder back then.
 

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Had to dig through my files to find my marks.

English Adv 80
Chem 93
Physics 92
2u Math 98 (y11)
3u Math 98
4u Math 96
Cosmology Distinction Course - Pass (not offered anymore)
i was talking about standard english because from what ive heard, it scales so badly. im sure getting 80 in adv is different to an 80 in standard
 

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i was talking about standard english because from what ive heard, it scales so badly. im sure getting 80 in adv is different to an 80 in standard
Oh right mb. But even if I got 80 in standard, still probably would've ended up with 90+. Maybe on the low end, but 90 nonetheless.
 

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Oh my bad I meant the old layout, there was no mc and the papers were so much harder back then.
Yeh true but it's still all relative. They could make the paper ridiculously hard such that the highest raw mark is 50, but it'll all get scaled up accordingly anyway lol.
 

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i was talking about standard english because from what ive heard, it scales so badly. im sure getting 80 in adv is different to an 80 in standard
Well I got an 85 in standard Eng and ended up with about the same atar.
 

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Standard doesn't affect your atar too much, I got:
Standard English - 87
Maths 3u - 99
Maths 4u - 98
Chemistry - 89
Physics - 91
and I ended up with an atar of 98.70. Getting a 90+ atar with standard english is pretty much as doable as getting a 90+ atar with advanced english
 

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Standard doesn't affect your atar too much, I got:
Standard English - 87
Maths 3u - 99
Maths 4u - 98
Chemistry - 89
Physics - 91
and I ended up with an atar of 98.70. Getting a 90+ atar with standard english is pretty much as doable as getting a 90+ atar with advanced english
do you know your raw mark? is 4u 98 ur scaled mark or raw mark?
 

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do you know your raw mark? is 4u 98 ur scaled mark or raw mark?
I mean obviously scaled and actually the term for it is aligned not scaled.

If that was his RAW mark he would literally be first in the state lol. He would've gotten around 94/95 raw. Just short of a state rank, you gotta be amazingly good to get that kind of mark.
 

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do you know your raw mark? is 4u 98 ur scaled mark or raw mark?
So 98 is my aligned mark, and as Drdusk said, my raw mark would be around 95%, I'm not sure what my exact raw mark is though
 

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