What marks do i need with these subjects to get band 6 atar? (3 Viewers)

[RealiseNothing]

reallyy??? :O
what is ur school ranking?>

~300.

 

[umm what]

she probs got band 6s in all her subjects

~300.

 

[RealiseNothing]

she probs got band 6s in all her subjects

She got band 6's in 10 units, not all of her subjects though.

 

[umm what]

http://community.boredofstudies.org/showthread.php?t=282100

 

[Dylanamali]

So if someone was really good at english and decided to take up standard just so they could 'ace' it... would they be able to get say at 99.95 ATAR? Hypothetically like, a person capable of ext 2 english did standard got 100 HSC mark???
... not that this would happen but..?

I think it is almost unheard of someone getting 99.95 with standard english..
if your good at english you do advanced.. standard aligns horridly.

 

[Dylanamali]

Same here. Not to sound stuck up or anything, but I got an Atar of 94 with HSC Marks of;

Adv.English: 94
Ext.1 English: 44/50
Biology: 89
Senior Science: 96
Modern History: 86
Japanese: 84

And these marks just go to show, if you screw up a couple assessment tasks, it isn't too big of a deal. For Modern History, I always got full marks for the assessments, but for the actual Half-Yearly and Trial which weigh more, i got 69% and 55% respectively... Ended up getting an Exam Mark of 86 by some divine intervention/miracle =P

nice eng and senior science marks.
96 in snr science = state rank?

~ and that's not necessarily true.. it really depends what your aiming for. If your aiming for 98/99+ you don't really want to screw up any assessment tasks.. if your goal is a 95 and below, you have that room. Getting a high 98/99 ATAR is much, much harder then getting a mid 95, as that's when each of your units has to be of a high level (b6).

 

[SunnyScience]

So if someone was really good at english and decided to take up standard just so they could 'ace' it... would they be able to get say at 99.95 ATAR? Hypothetically like, a person capable of ext 2 english did standard got 100 HSC mark???
... not that this would happen but..?

I do recall one year where a state rank in Standard English was a mark of 93. So, getting 100 in standard English - no. (tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny....x a big number chance). I think it's a 0.08% band 6 rate in Standard English?

 

[madharris]

I do recall one year where a state rank in Standard English was a mark of 93. So, getting 100 in standard English - no. (tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny....x a big number chance). I think it's a 0.08% band 6 rate in Standard English?

It changes every year. I think like 4 years ago no people got band 6 in standard. It just depends how smart the standard English kids are compared the advanced ones

 

[Aaron6693]

nice eng and senior science marks.
96 in snr science = state rank?

~ and that's not necessarily true.. it really depends what your aiming for. If your aiming for 98/99+ you don't really want to screw up any assessment tasks.. if your goal is a 95 and below, you have that room. Getting a high 98/99 ATAR is much, much harder then getting a mid 95, as that's when each of your units has to be of a high level (b6).

Haha no unfortunately, didn't get a state rank for Senior Science. I was actually really surprised with my results all up...my thought was that I "should be able to get a 74 ATAR" so I could get into my first preference. Thats because I always under-estimate myself, and always over-estimate exams/assessments though =P

And yeah you're right in that sense; if you're aiming for an ATAR of say 97-98+, you really dont want to stuff up your assessments. You'd probably have a bit of wriggle-room with one or two assessments, especially if they're only low-weighing ones.

And just as a pointer, if you do incredibly bad [by whatever your standards are], dont just take your mark into consideration when you're beating yourself up "screwing up your HSC"
...I did that for Modern History when I got 69% in the half yearlies...considering 3/4 of the year actually FAILED this exam, with the highest being 85% and the second highest being something 78-ish %, 69% wasnt actually THAT bad of a mark at all in the big picture.

 

[Render777]

Thank you for the replies guys.