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What these other people said.

I meant externals. Knowing the top people in my school, and other top selective/private schools, it's not hard to imagine more than 20 in the state getting 100% raw for the 2/3U externals. Anyway, that's beside the point. OP got her answer. Yes, it most certainly IS possible.

Welcome to the club.

Many meaning "more than 20 people" in the state each year.

Of course it's possible. It just doesn't happen very often, especially for Humanities subjects. BTW, many people get a raw mark of 100% for 2/3U Mathematics.

Low 80 for Chemistry Mid 80s for Mathematics, Biology and English High 80s for Legal Studies and PDHPE Will get you an ATAR of 90+. Btw, 2U Mathematics is NOT Mathematics Advanced. It's just Mathematics.

You would need a high Band 5 or higher (87+) in all of your subjects (or at least 10 units) for a chance of an ATAR of 90+. Champion.

Maybe a bit higher. It's somewhere around mid 99. SBHS (2011 ranked 4th) median ATAR was probably high 97. ATAR calculators use your HSC mark...not your raw marks.

They'd prefer integrated. However, linear is much easier to do.

I can't speak about Legal and Biz, but memorising essays for Eco is just STUPID. There are up to 20 possible essay questions that they could ask and trying to memorise for all of them isn't practical. For the people who memorised essays for English (in my year), most of them stuck to what they...

Fixed.

Mathematics Extension 1 Mathematics Extension 2 English (Advanced) Physics Chemistry 5 subjects. For many unis, Med doesn't have any prerequisite subjects. A bit direct, but sums up the argument nicely.

According to this link, for the 50th percentile, Aboriginal Studies is the lowest scaling subject with a scaled mark of 12.6/50. In contrast, Drama has a scaled mark of 23.9/50 and Mathematics Extension 2 has a scaled mark of 44.3/50. Depends on your definition of scaling, tbh.

I wrote around 5 pages for each module, and 6 for my creative. However, my essays weren't memorised (except Mod C). I think I wrote around 1000 words for each essay. IN b4 next poster talks about "quality > quantity...it doesn't matter how much you write..."

It's not like the difference between General Maths and Mathematics.

The Asian 5 is what you're doing. Replacing Chem with Eco makes it slightly less Asian (As Chem scales better than both Phys and Eco, aligns better than Eco, and is more popular among selective school kids than Eco)

Still...depends on what you define as "low scaling". The vast majority of 99.95ers do "high scaling" subjects. The good ol' Asian 5. 87 in all your subjects (exc. 4U), and 80 in 4U will get you 96+.

What...? I think "many people" is a gross overstatement. Also, 4U English SCALES WORSE than English Advanced (for the same aligned marks). @OP: Using an ATAR Calculator, it looks like you'll need E4s/Band 6s for all of your subjects to have any hope of getting 96+.

lol

Lot of hate for public schools (and the kids that go there) ITT.