Extra 10% onto your enter score for doing VCE subject early?

[bec036]

I'm doing year 12 this year and people have been saying you get 10% of your lowest study score added to your enter for doing a subject a year early (which i did) ??   but i can't find any information on it anywhere. is this true? can someone explain to me how it works?? 

thank-you 

[stonecold]

Okay, you have the primary four subjects, which is the sum of you top three scaled study scores and you best scaled score in any english subject.  Then if you have a 5th and 6th subject, 10% of these will be added on to your aggregate.

The year of study is irrelevant.   Check the scaling report to see how subjects are scaled and what aggregates correspond to  certain ATAR's.
http://www.vtac.edu.au/pdf/scaling_report.pdf

e.g. in 2009, if your top four study scores and 10% of the 5th and 6th added to be 158, then you would have gotten an ATAR of 90.00.  Important to note that you don't need to have the 5th and 6th subject to get your ATAR, although if you are going for a high score the extra 7 or 8 points to your aggregate will definitely help.

[the.watchman]

Okay, you have the primary four subjects, which is the sum of you top three scaled study scores and you best scaled score in any english subject.  Then if you have a 5th and 6th subject, 10% of these will be added on to your aggregate.

The year of study is irrelevant.   Check the scaling report to see how subjects are scaled and what aggregates correspond to  certain ATAR's.
http://www.vtac.edu.au/pdf/scaling_report.pdf

e.g. in 2009, if your top four study scores and 10% of the 5th and 6th added to be 158, then you would have gotten an ATAR of 90.00.  Important to note that you don't need to have the 5th and 6th subject to get your ATAR, although if you are going for a high score the extra 7 or 8 points to your aggregate will definitely help.

Particularly in the nervous nineties, any little bonus you can get makes a huge difference

[ReVeL]

^^ Agreed. Had I not done VOR in year 11 I wouldn't have got into the course I'm currently completing.

[simpak]

Look, I can't say Theatre Studies was all that beneficial for me.
Maybe I would have achieved like, 99.5 if I had taken initiative in picking my subjects and done Psychology instead.
Lifetime regret.

Well not really, it stops mattering.