First of all, thank you and all the ATAR Notes people. I love this forum so so so much.
No, thank you! The value of ATAR Notes comes from the people of ATAR Notes, including you and everybody reading this. I love the forum, too! 😍
My questions are:
When you were studying, did you have a certain ATAR goal that sometimes you were very scared you wouldn't get?
Not really. At the start of Year 11, I was asked to write down my goal ATAR as some sort of motivation tool, and I really had absolutely no idea what to write, because I didn't know what was realistic. I didn't want to aim
too high in case I was being unrealistic and just setting myself up for disappointment, but I also didn't want to aim
too low, because I wanted to push myself!
As a result of that^ (which I think would be common tbh), I never really had a goal ATAR as such - I just wanted to do as well as I could. All of the courses I was interested in pursuing through Year 12 didn't need a particularly high ATAR, so that wasn't a huge motivating factor, either.
But were there times through Year 12 where I was scared I wouldn't do as well as hoped? Absolutely. Most days haha.
Also what are your study tips in general?
Tough one. Here are
ten broad tips. Happy to elaborate on any if you're interested.
And further maths is prob my worst subject, I am doing many practice exams and marking down what I need to improve but on every exam I get like 67 percent ):
What are you losing marks on mostly?
Also random, since you liked MAFS, are you are fan of love island or the bachelor?
MAFS feels like so long ago haha. I've never watched Love Island and have no interest in it. The Bachelor - yep, but less and less. I think shows like this are really hitting saturation point. How about you?
Thank you so much!
No worries at all!
Also, it's comforting to know that you did scaled down subjects and still got an amazing score because every single subject of mine is scaled down and yeah, it's worrying because I need an 80 plus.
Yeah, through VCE I was quite concerned about this, but now I have a better understanding of what scaling is and how it functions. If you're "punished" by doing subjects that scale down, what that scaling is actually doing is just negating the "advantage" you have of less competitive cohorts in your subjects. All in all, things are level, meaning you can be confident that you won't be positively or negatively affected in a substantial way.