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MicroShift

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University Enhancement Contribution?
« on: December 22, 2011, 08:51:54 pm »
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This year I did three 3/4 subjects - English, Biology & Further Maths. My school has set a hard limit of a minimum of 4 subjects for Year 12 (some crap about the school getting less money from the government if I do less) so I will ultimately end up with 7 Unit 3/4 subjects completed. On top of the four I'm doing next year I will be doing Programming at RMIT as a University Extension subject. If I average >90% (or whatever I end up getting) and therefore an increment of 5.0, will this contribute to my ATAR at all? Given there will already be 7 subjects to pick from for the primary 4 and two 10% increments.
Daniel15's ATARcalc doesn't include the study increment when I put in all my subjects, but I don't know whether this is a bug or he has information as to whether it will contribute.

Thanks. :)
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Re: University Enhancement Contribution?
« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2011, 09:30:17 pm »
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Your six highest subjects are used to calculate your ATAR. Therefore if your 5.0 for Programming is higher than 10% of the study score for your sixth subject, it will contribute to your ATAR.

Shouldn't your school consider the university enhancement a subject? It might not be worth taking it if you already have seven other subjects.
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Re: University Enhancement Contribution?
« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2011, 10:20:16 pm »
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It'd be pretty hard (and amazing) for your 5.0 to not be in your bottom 2! :P You'd have to do loads of languages + spesh or something.

I was in a similar position, I wanted to 3 subjects at school + uni extension, but the school said that you need to do at least 4 to be a full-time student.. which somehow affects the funding, as MicroShift mentioned.
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Re: University Enhancement Contribution?
« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2011, 10:25:58 pm »
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Yeah queendaisy's right, the Uni Enhancement subject doesn't count as me doing a subject at school, and therefore doing 3+uni would make me a part-time student (= less money for school)
Ok so it just gets counted like any other subject then? That's what I had assumed, but the ATARcalc made me doubt myself. :P
ATAR: 85.55

2011: Biology [31] | English [29] | Further Maths [44]
2012: Accounting [31] | Methods [35] | Physics [29] | Specialist [27] | RMIT Comp Sci Extension [5.0]
2013: Bachelor of Science @ University of Melbourne