ATAR Notes: Forum
ATAR Notes Initiatives => ATAR Calculator => Topic started by: Mr Keshy on December 09, 2012, 05:32:36 pm
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Please tell me I'm not the only one who checks in at least twice a day as a source of encouragement. ;D
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No, it demotivates me. :P
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I do. :) It motivates me :) I can't believe that thats all i think about all day . .its kinda sad.:(
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I do! I didn't do a 3/4 this year but I use it a lot, motivates me to do my holiday homework and go ahead of what's required so I can get my desired study scores :D
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What generally happens with me is I put in what I think I'll get, but then gradually increase each study score by 1 thinking "yeah, I could totally get that". I then look at the ATAR and think "woot imma get an awesome score" which gives me confidence.
Although I then look back at the study scores and see English 42, which is followed by "LOL wtf I'm screwed" and I sulk around the house.
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I just use it and it makes me depressed.
(http://i.qkme.me/3s3x7r.jpg)
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Haha awesome!
lpe, I'm exactly like you, I bump them up a little and then afterwards I look at it and am like.. wait a sec... that ain't happenin.
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Haven't used it at all... literally but if I did it will make me depressed
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Every time I used ATARcalc my ATAR would decrease LOL
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Every time I used ATARcalc my ATAR would decrease LOL
This. 50 FM -> 49 FM -> 48 FM. Depressing =/
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I used to religiously use it when in year 11, thinking "oh a 45 in this subject would be easily done"...but it sometimes doesn't happen that way. So I don't put it as my home screen anymore :P
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in a hypothetical world, i would love to achieve one 50, however i am deadly realistic. atar calc gives me hope that i can still get in the high 80's. i check it almost every day as well!
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in a hypothetical world, i would love to achieve one 50, however i am deadly realistic. atar calc gives me hope that i can still get in the high 80's. i check it almost every day as well!
I do try to be realistic, when I'm bored, I'd set an ATAR like 95 or something and then adjust random subjects. So I'd say 'well chem is hard so I'll pop that down to 37 but I'll put further up to 44' or something ridiculous haha.
I used to religiously use it when in year 11, thinking "oh a 45 in this subject would be easily done"...but it sometimes doesn't happen that way. So I don't put it as my home screen anymore :P
I thought I was crazy bookmarking it haha :)
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Kesh don't be a spastic, aim 45+ in FM.
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Kesh don't be a spastic, aim 45+ in FM.
I shall modify my sig now mate. :)
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I shall modify my sig now mate. :)
Woo!! :)
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Well, ATARCalc works 2 ways. It boosts your confidence but also depresses you more when you find out your expectation is too high.
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in a hypothetical world, i would love to achieve one 50, however i am deadly realistic. atar calc gives me hope that i can still get in the high 80's. i check it almost every day as well!
IN A HYPOTHETICAL WORLD YOU'D STILL WANT A VCE!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
*backs away slowly*
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IN A HYPOTHETICAL WORLD YOU'D STILL WANT A VCE!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
*backs away slowly*
hahahaha of course not!
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Problem with AtarCalc is that you end up doing best case scenarios and worst case scenarios and the range for a lot of people can be quite wide, so you end up more anxious than ever :)
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Atar Calc is the stuff and fluff!!!
I use it as a goal setter but sometimes I get depressed because it's hard when you know you have to do well like super good A+ averages and stuffs.
Then you become confident because you reckon its not that hard to get 'as long as you study'
Oh man...
Atarcalc provides a spectrum of confidence and depression and my spectrum keeps spinning around like those rainbow coloured wheels.
:) ;) :D ;D >:( >:( :o 8) ??? ::) :P :-[ :-X :-\ :-* :'(
:o :o :o
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Please tell me I'm not the only one who checks in at least twice a day as a source of encouragement. ;D
don't worry i do the same thing.
sometimes i realise that i've spent literally an hour just changing around those stupid numbers :P
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don't worry i do the same thing.
sometimes i realise that i've spent literally an hour just changing around those stupid numbers :P
What's done it's done :)
The best one can only do is to forget about it and do something else.
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Yeah, I must admit, I am guilty of spending hours on the darn thing.....Whilst it boosts my confidence, I simultaneously think "why am I doing this? It ain't gonna change a thing!"
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Yeah, I must admit, I am guilty of spending hours on the darn thing.....Whilst it boosts my confidence, I simultaneously think "why am I doing this? It ain't gonna change a thing!"
I actually played with atar calc 6 months after I got my ATAR , it gave me 97.45 which is 0.1 more than what I got :P
100TH POST GUYS
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Haha, what's the point checking afterwards!! :P
Yeah, I must admit, I am guilty of spending hours on the darn thing.....Whilst it boosts my confidence, I simultaneously think "why am I doing this? It ain't gonna change a thing!"
I'm with you, but I still do it haha. Well, we haven't even started the year so I guess I'm being enthusiastic (and ambitious haha) about it.
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Haha, what's the point checking afterwards!! :P
Accuracy which is fairly high
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I go on it thinking it'll boost my confidence, but gradually I lose the little confidence I began with as I realize that it's too damn difficult to achieve a decent score, especially considering that I lack drive or motivation.
Seriously don't understand how people find the will to continue. :P
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Considering a gap year right now guys
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I go on it thinking it'll boost my confidence, but gradually I lose the little confidence I began with as I realize that it's too damn difficult to achieve a decent score, especially considering that I lack drive or motivation.
Seriously don't understand how people find the will to continue. :P
Some of us just go and forget about it until 6:30am or so :)
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The atarcalc is most opened tab and it's only term 1
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Wait till you reach the final exam period. ;)
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lol, clearly none of us can forget the scarring effects of ATAR Calc. :'( What's the bet the day before the english exam gets the most hits all year?
I finished in 2013 and it still depresses me, cause when I put in my ACTUAL scores for my ACTUAL VCE year it gives me a higher ATAR than what I got :-[
Also had I been born three years earlier I would've gotten another .25 increase from a lower bell curve year level.
I do doubt the accuracy though. Apparently with my humanities(ish) stuff, I couldn't get a 99.95 even if I got 50s in everything. Oh VCAA, you're such an elusive mistress...
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Confidence boost? I feel depressed as hell!
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Every time I use it I slowly decrease my expected scores... :/
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Sometimes the ATAR Calculator serves as both a motivation and a de-motivation. There are times where I'm feeling in a good mood, and I set it to the score that I think that I'll achieve at the end of this year and end up being happy with the ATAR score (Around 80 is my goal for now). But when I'm in a bad mood, feeling down or checking for it and I set the same study scores I just cry. LOL
I'd say it's more of a motivation though just to encourage me to work harder (even IF it's just a placebo).
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I do doubt the accuracy though. Apparently with my humanities(ish) stuff, I couldn't get a 99.95 even if I got 50s in everything. Oh VCAA, you're such an elusive mistress...
in your year methods scaled to 52, and you had indonesian as well so yeah it would have been 99.95 quite comfortably with all 50s
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I used to use it almost every night before I actually came into year 11 with my two 3&4s. After that, I never went on it except for once after realising how unrealistic I was back in year 10, lost in my childish reveries. :P
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I wrote up 11 tips for VCE for my VCESS spesh class this year, this was #6:
"6. Harry Potter had the Mirror of Erised, VCE students have the ATAR Calculator. “It shows us nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts” so PLEASE do not dwell on it, it can waste so much time and really adds nothing but stress to your VCE."
I still stand by that.