Is it hard to get a 50 in specialist?

[Special At Specialist]

I love specialist maths and I really want to get a 50 study score. I am only in year 11, but I have been watching online videos and solving past exams I found on the internet so that I am ready for year 12. I go to a pretty average school where it is extremely rare for a student to get over 45 in any subject, so everyone is telling me that it is impossible for me to get a 50 and that I should aim for something realistic like a 40.
If I focus all my energy on specialist, what chance do you think I have of getting a 50?

[knightstarr17]

Very possible, you have to believe in your self and ability, the school you attend and teachers play a minor role, but it's up to you to look for the extra resources and to get the edge. And secondly I do not recommend that you just focus on one subject hope this helped

[funkyducky]

Don't listen to those guys, you should aim high - it is hard to get a 50 - only 2% of students in one subject get over 45, it's definitely less than 1% of students who get 50. Just aim to get full marks on everything - but like the guy above me said, you need to spread your attention evenly over your subjects (imagine getting 50 for spesh then <40 for everything else lol)

[Special At Specialist]

I'm not too fussed with what I get in all of my other subjects. I want to get a 50 in specialist and a 40+ in methods, but I would be happy with a 30 in everything else and an atar of 90+.

[Truck]

I'm not too fussed with what I get in all of my other subjects. I want to get a 50 in specialist and a 40+ in methods, but I would be happy with a 30 in everything else and an atar of 90+.

Spec scales up a lot, if you get like a 41-42 it should get scaled up to 50 (based on this years new scaling of +11 from 30, but could be more, duno).

Why do you care so much about getting 50 in Spec? It's pretty much more important to do well in all your other subjects to get the better ATAR (keep your doors open; be able to get into any course you want etc). If you want to get a 50 in Spec, I'm assuming your the kind of guy who loves Maths, and I'ma make another assumption and say you'd want to do something like Commerce/Engineering/Med... you need pretty high ATARs for all that!

[tha boss]

stop smokin boy take it easy jkz

[Special At Specialist]

This is going to sound really weird, but the truth is:
I don't care too much about my ATAR, nor do I care about university. I just want to do well in specialist for the achievement. I have pretty low aims in life, other than this one goal of getting a 50 in specialist...

[thushan]

It's like any other subject, don't make careless errors!

[burbs]

I wouldn't recommend aiming for a 50 and neglecting the rest. I get it, you just want a 50 in spesh and a 40 in methods - but as soon as you get your SS you'll go crap - now what? Nobody is going to care what SS you got after like a week, and you probably won't either. What you may find yourself caring about is how your other subjects dragged you down and you can't get into the course you want.

That said, I reckon it's very possible to get a 50 spesh, 40+ methods and 40 in the rest - just work consistently and use the summer holidays. That way you get your maths SS aims, and still get an ATAR that opens up new opportunities. There is life after VCE.

[taiga]

Yes

[thushan]

LOL Bazza.

[Truck]

This is going to sound really weird, but the truth is:
I don't care too much about my ATAR, nor do I care about university. I just want to do well in specialist for the achievement. I have pretty low aims in life, other than this one goal of getting a 50 in specialist...

Trololol?

[Special At Specialist]

This is going to sound really weird, but the truth is:
I don't care too much about my ATAR, nor do I care about university. I just want to do well in specialist for the achievement. I have pretty low aims in life, other than this one goal of getting a 50 in specialist...

Trololol?

I'm serious. My parents both graduated from university and they are both unemployed. I don't think that university is the "be all and end all" of jobs, but at the same time, I am interested in maths and I want to do well at this subject.

I wouldn't recommend aiming for a 50 and neglecting the rest. I get it, you just want a 50 in spesh and a 40 in methods - but as soon as you get your SS you'll go crap - now what? Nobody is going to care what SS you got after like a week, and you probably won't either. What you may find yourself caring about is how your other subjects dragged you down and you can't get into the course you want.

That said, I reckon it's very possible to get a 50 spesh, 40+ methods and 40 in the rest - just work consistently and use the summer holidays. That way you get your maths SS aims, and still get an ATAR that opens up new opportunities. There is life after VCE.

I wish I could do this. My subjects for next year are:
Literature
Methods
Specialist
Philosophy
German

Unfortunately, I'm only about average in literature, so I would be lucky to get a 30 in that which will bring my ATAR down heaps. I'm very good at maths, which will bring it up. I am quite good at philosophy, but not good enough to get a 40, and I find it one of those subjects that's easy to get above average but hard to do extremely well in. As for German, I just plain suck at that and since I know it's not going to be in my primary 4, I'm only trying to pass it.

[Lasercookie]

Who said university is only about getting a job

You could go to university and learn some maths that's more interesting than stuff covered in VCE...

[Special At Specialist]

Who said university is only about getting a job

You could go to university and learn some maths that's more interesting than stuff covered in VCE...

I would consider this, but I don't know if I can afford to just go to university for fun, unless I can get a scholarship.