How do humanties students hold up when it comes to ATAR ?

[catmh]

I am currently studying
-English
-International Studies
-Health and Human Development (Study Score 33 :/)
-History Revolutions
-Economics
-Business Management

I really want a good ATAR but I am hopeless at Maths/Science subjects. I have focused on my strgenths but I have been really apprehensive about my VCE lately. It just seems that things are in favor of Maths/Sciences. I am not ratting on them I just think that all subjects take effort. That's just my two cents.

I do digress. What I am asking is basically is there Humanities/arts students who have completed VCE with a high ATAR

[dmanz]

some guy at my school did all the business(y) subjects -accounting/eco/busman/ and got a 92+.

only person last year who didn't do science or math to do it.

[werdna]

Anything is possible.. I read that one MGS student got a 99.95 with no math/science subjects at all.. 50s in English, Literature, and History Revolutions, 43 for Philosophy, 42 for Economics and 40 for Latin.

[vea]

You have the same chance as math/science kids do. Last year, my school captain got 99.75 with English 50, Drama 50, Media 50, Lit 49, Revs 42 and something else that wasn't over 40 though.

[Zafaraaaa]

You have the same chance as math/science kids do. Last year, my school captain got 99.75 with English 50, Drama 50, Media 50, Lit 49, Revs 42 and something else that wasn't over 40 though.

Is this more the case with the top/ selective schools and those with strong cohorts? Or with any school? =/

[catmh]

Ah, okay. I think I have just been over thinking things :uglystupid2:

 I guess its all about the effort I put into it at the end of the day. I sometimes can't actually comprehend that this is going to be my last year in high school. Kind of mind blowing really

[dmanz]

You have the same chance as math/science kids do. Last year, my school captain got 99.75 with English 50, Drama 50, Media 50, Lit 49, Revs 42 and something else that wasn't over 40 though.

Is this more the case with the top/ selective schools and those with strong cohorts? Or with any school? =/

it wont matter which school you can still get a 50. sometimes it is just "easier" with a stronger cohort

[ShortBlackChick]

I suppose this isnt really indicitive of much, but the people who, lets say get accepted into arts/law at monash- the ATAR for that is 98-ish, so i would ASSUME they predominantly would have subjects which are humanities, yet they would have pulled off a good ATAR.
Like my Politics tutor- granted he went MHS but he did all InterPol, Lit, French, History (dunno which one) Further and English. He's doing Arts/Law, and he said his lowest study score was for Pol, where he got 44!!!!
So i guess its not really the subjects you do, its more just YOU and what you do with such subjects.

[gs]

My subjects are English, Maths Further, Economics, Legal Studies and Business Management. Hoping to score 40+ in legal studies which will then hopefully set me up into a law course next year. Hope this makes you feel a little better!

[Eriny]

I am currently studying
-English
-International Studies
-Health and Human Development (Study Score 33 :/)
-History Revolutions
-Economics
-Business Management

Both history and economics scale up, granted not as much as methods or chem or something, but enough. For most subjects, if you get in the 40+ range, scaling wont hurt you very much if at all.

If you are better at humanities, you will get better scores in the humanities and ultimately a better ATAR.

[taiga]

I think for a student that hasn't identified their strengths, maths and science will do them a lot more good. That said, if you're good at humanities and know it, you'll almost always end up performing better on your humanities as you would doing maths/science.

Though I must say that most people on the 95+ scale has something scaling up.

[slothpomba]

Though I must say that most people on the 95+ scale has something scaling up.

Taiga is right. You can do as well, if not better(if you are good at the subjects you choose) with humanities. This is up untill a certain level though.

As taiga said when it gets to about 95 or over ATAR wise a lot of those people have subjects that scale over 50. They give you an ATAR based on an aggregate of all your study scores added together. Even if you get 50+50+50+50+50, near the very top it gets very competitive so you need to have something that scales over 50 to push you over the edge. Spesh and Latin are examples of this as far as im aware.

That however is just for the very highest end of the scale.

Otherwise if you are good at your subject you have just as good of a chance, if not better at getting like 93 compared to someone doing science/mathsy type stuff.


I'm sure they took these things into account .

[Truck]

Though I must say that most people on the 95+ scale has something scaling up.

Taiga is right. You can do as well, if not better(if you are good at the subjects you choose) with humanities. This is up untill a certain level though.

As taiga said when it gets to about 95 or over ATAR wise a lot of those people have subjects that scale over 50. They give you an ATAR based on an aggregate of all your study scores added together. Even if you get 50+50+50+50+50, near the very top it gets very competitive so you need to have something that scales over 50 to push you over the edge. Spesh and Latin are examples of this as far as im aware.

That however is just for the very highest end of the scale.

Otherwise if you are good at your subject you have just as good of a chance, if not better at getting like 93 compared to someone doing science/mathsy type stuff.


I'm sure they took these things into account .

6 50's will get you a 99.95 =P.

[taiga]

Though I must say that most people on the 95+ scale has something scaling up.

Taiga is right. You can do as well, if not better(if you are good at the subjects you choose) with humanities. This is up untill a certain level though.

As taiga said when it gets to about 95 or over ATAR wise a lot of those people have subjects that scale over 50. They give you an ATAR based on an aggregate of all your study scores added together. Even if you get 50+50+50+50+50, near the very top it gets very competitive so you need to have something that scales over 50 to push you over the edge. Spesh and Latin are examples of this as far as im aware.

That however is just for the very highest end of the scale.

Otherwise if you are good at your subject you have just as good of a chance, if not better at getting like 93 compared to someone doing science/mathsy type stuff.


I'm sure they took these things into account .

6 50's will get you a 99.95 =P.

Not in all years

Though given the deflation of spesh scaling (and of a couple other subjects), it probably won't reach that stage.

And 5 50's won't always get you a 99.95 believe it or not :X

[slothpomba]

Haha im going to be honest i just made up those numbers i never aimed 95+ high haha so it wasnt really of interest to me to know those numbers