u/Free_Watercress4202

Hey guys. Just wondering what is the atar requirement for a bachelor of oral health science at La Trobe Bendigo. As of last year the website said 82. And now it says 99.95💀. Which is higher than MelbUni’s atar req for the same course btw.
I even tried asking at careers expo and they didn’t know why it has increased by that much in 1 year.

Also does anyone know the intake/seats each year. I’m gonna pray that I get in direct after year 12 but worst case scenario can I do bachelor of science at monash and then apply for external transfer. Or maybe graduate Bach of sci and then apply as a non school leaver. Any advice appreciated bc I really wanna become an oral health therapist but there’s literally only 2 uni’s in Melbourne offering the course 😭

I go to a grammar school and obviously everyone chooses business management in hopes to get at least over a study score of 35, given that the subject isn’t too bad and the teachers at my school were great. However this year, the business teachers at my school have changed and they’re genuinely so bad.

Firstly, they’re not using class time effectively at all and are speed running content, plus my teacher gives chapters worth of work as homework instead of covering it with us in class. For AOS1, there was a significant class average difference, with one class averaging low 60-70 and my class averaging low 50-60. And there was lots of complaints going to our vce coordinator about the teachers, so now for AOS2 they told us theyre even going to be sharing class averages at all, so I can’t even tell you what the averages were but surely not much different than aos1. Even then, the cohort is still doing shit and it is being said that no cohort at our school has ever performed this bad in business management.

And it is not that we all do not study. We do. But the marking is so harsh. Losing marks literally for every single question. And they tell us that we “will be fine because sac marks scale if exam average is good”. But how much will the sacs even scale up by if people like me haven’t touched over 70%? And high exam average I also doubt because most people are going to neglect business for other subjects, and considering the 2026 business exam is back to back with so many other subjects such as HHD. For reference, I chose business management convinced I was gonna get over 40 study score. I got 10/20 for aos1 and 24/40 for aos2. Aos3 is literally in 3 days time and I highly doubt the scores are gonna improve.

And the timing of the sacs was ridiculous. We had aos1 sac 2 days after our year 12 retreat in week3 term1. aos2 sac was afterschool at 3:45 on the last day of term 1, same week as 2 general sacs back to back and a practice GAT our school held, and everyone was TIRED. (they literally could’ve pushed aos2 to term 2). With a cohort of approximately 50-55 students max, I don’t think more than 7-8 kids (just a guess) are even touching above 85% average on both sacs

Any help, advice, comments are appreciated because I genuinely feel so lost and feel like business is going to ruin my atar. I wanted that raw 40 so bad but it feels too late now.