ATAR Notes: Forum
VCE Stuff => Victorian Education Discussion => VIC Year 10 Discussion => Topic started by: Natnael.G on September 17, 2018, 09:01:19 pm
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I attend a school ranked 300+ and was wondering whether achieving a high atar is possible with the following subjects:
Physics, Chemistry, Methods, English and Biology
There were only 3 40+ study scores last year at my school. Am I really stuffed?
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Hey,
At the school I attended there were no 90+ ATARs for a few years until my cohort came along and we had 3 95+s. We also only had 3(ish) 40+s in the year before my cohort.
It is 100% definitely possible. You are not stuffed
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Absolutely! As long as you put in the hard work throughout your HSC/VCE, the ranking of your school should not matter.
A good example would be our very own jamonwindeyer, who went to a 300+ ranked school and ended up with a 99.80 ATAR!
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Thanks guys for the advice.
One last question. With the subjects I am going undertake for VCE, how hard should I work?
PS: My school is ranked 439th (sorry for the misinformation)
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Thanks guys for the advice.
One last question. With the subjects I am going undertake for VCE, how hard should I work?
PS: My school is ranked 439th (sorry for the misinformation)
We can't answer that, because there is too much we don't know.
We don't know: how much prior background you have in the subjects, how easily you learn content for each of these subjects, what you want to get out of VCE... etc.
What I will say is that you probably want to be rank one, which means having the highest SAC scores (for unit 3&4) out of your classmates. If you're rank 1 and you do the best in the exam, your exam score will become your SAC score.
(So if you only have a B average in the SACs but that's better than anyone else studying those subjects at your school and you get an A+ on the exam, VCAA will convert your SAC scores to A+s )
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Also unless you have really good teachers you’re probably going to have to use other resources a fair bit - luckily for you you’re doing popular subjects so they’re fairly easy to find. It’ll be easy for you to be pulled into a false sense of security because you know that you’re rank 1 - but it can be harder to compare where you’re actually at compared to the rest of the state. Try and do VCAA practice questions (or questions from a company although they’re not quite as accurate) throughout the year as a measure of how you’re actually going.
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My school was approaching 400th in terms of school rankings, but last year 4 people got above 97, and we had someone who got a 50 ss. This was a far cry from the previous years in which we would've been lucky if someone had gotten above 90. Despite this, our average ss went down a point from last year.
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Thank you all for the supportive responses and advice.