Redoing further next year

[Nataliaelias]

What are the pros and cons for redoing further next year ?? Are they going to take the higher study score towards our atar ?? Helppp

[brenden]

What are the pros and cons for redoing further next year ?? Are they going to take the higher study score towards our atar ?? Helppp

Pros: an extra .1-.5 onto your ATAR.

Cons: Further Maths again.


Edit:

No seriously - would the benefit be that big? I mean, if you get a 30 this year and ended up with a 50 next year, sure, that's an additional 10-15 points onto your aggregate depending on the other scores in your top 4. But are you going to get a 30? Are you going to get a 50 next year? how can you guarantee you don't mess up next year and get a score only 3-4 points higher?

Right now, you should be focussing on exam 2... Start thinking about repeating Further once you have your study score in hand. It does you no good now

[Drewballs]

I'm considering repeating further as well
My scores were near perfect all year, worked so hard, got 100 on both my practice exams.

Then I got to exam 1, had a bad day from start to finish and got 34/40
Then exam 2 today, I did great and lost 1 mark at the most.
I'm only doing 4 subjects next year anyway, so I can do it again easily.
Just don't want one bad day for a whole year to get the better of me

[Aaron]

I'm considering repeating further as well
My scores were near perfect all year, worked so hard, got 100 on both my practice exams.

Then I got to exam 1, had a bad day from start to finish and got 34/40
Then exam 2 today, I did great and lost 1 mark at the most.
I'm only doing 4 subjects next year anyway, so I can do it again easily.
Just don't want one bad day for a whole year to get the better of me

Why would you do it again? Those scores are still great....

Honestly, it just isn't worth it.

[Drewballs]

I'm annoyed that one bad day took me from high 40s to high 30s low 40s, considering how hard I worked
and it probably won't require that much effort next year anyway, I could do other work in class and just do the sacs

[Orb]

Going to respectfully disagree with Aaron

I think it should be, ultimately, down to your own circumstance.
I tutored Methods & Specialist this year and have (subsequently) met students of a lot of different calibres.

Some of them started off the year with wonderful fundamentals, but I want to hone in on a specific example, someone who repeated Methods after a pretty below expectation performance in 2015 (he got ~25 raw).
This year? On the latest mock exam (2015 VCAA) he did better than my own score last year and is 'technically' on track for a 47 raw.
The difference to his ATAR? (28 --> 49+ which is a solid 20+ aggregate points considering Maths is his best subject).

Thinking about it, that's the same difference between an 87 and a 95, or the difference between a 77 and a 90. Basically, easily the difference between getting the course that you've dreamed of and missing the cut by a huge gap. Granted, the exam hasn't even been sat yet and I have no way of telling what his end study score will be (can confidently say he'll 40+, which by any margins is a 15+ aggregate boost).

However, for every success story you hear ^^ you'll hear a myriad of people increasing their study scores by 1-3 or in some rare cases, spend an extra year and get a lower score.

Bottom line i'd say is:
If you think you completely bombed the exam due to exam anxiety and not lack of preparation and you get a study score of below 40, it can make sense to redo.

If you got 40+, bombed the exam but you know part of it may be because you didn't study hard enough or some questions just stumped you, then it's probably not worth it.

Regardless, if you're planning on redoing, i'd suggest reevaluating the reasons behind why you didn't perform so well. Is it because you didn't study hard enough? Is it because you were unaccustomed to something, was it just pure bad luck (be honest with yourself, because redoing can only fix some of these factors)?
 
I think Brenden has a point in the sense that, unless you're certain that you'd do a whole heap better and have the determination to see things through (it is not an easy task), there's probably no point.

But it is certainly possible