r/ATAR

Hi guys so I’m in year 11 I take Methods, Specialist, Physics, Chemistry and English Atar although I’m consistently ranking in top 3 of my class I wanna push myself to be top 2. My fear is burning out before Year 12. Although I have a predicted of 94.5 Year 11 Sem 1, I feel like my scores are never good, any tips?

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Hello, I'm currently a year 10 student enrolled at a public school in a regional area.

I have aspirations to do a double degree in both Law and Commerce. I top my year in english and commerce and have done for awhile. Otherwise, I'm in all advanced classes (Eg. Currently on 5.3 for maths getting prepped for a Advancee/Extension Pathway.)

I'm really confronted on what to pick, I though Business studies and Legal Studies obviously, My teacher has insistes me to do extension english which I would love but then I also want to do an advanced/extension maths course. (Even if im not the best at it.)

Any advice waw be appreciated, Thanks.

For my external I need to compare two pieces of literature but am having a hard time choosing what to do. I have read the odyssey, the Iliad, the alchemist, 1984, the great Gatsby, the bonfire of vanities. I have also watched v for vendetta and all the movie adaptations of the books.

I genuinely feel doomed. My parents have been pressuring me to enter medicine for a long time right now, but there’s no way I’m getting in. My applications are next month as well. I keep comparing myself to like family members who are doctors, engineers etc. I feel really insecure about it and I keep having panic and anxiety attacks about it too. I’ve been trying to do UCAT prep, but I suck at it miserably. I literally cry myself to sleep whenever I have a UCAT session because there’s just no way I’m going to do well in it. Atp I learned to accept that I’m not going to get a 99+ atar and a good UCAT. It doesn’t even help that my UCAT will take place later this month. While I’m guaranteed that my ATAR will be above 95 (I think idk), it’s not enough to guarantee a place into most med courses. GAMSAT looks like hell too, so I don’t know if I want to do postgraduate medicine. If anyone wants to look at my scores so far here (I’m from Queensland):

IA1

English - 25/25

Chemistry - 9/10

Physics -10/10

Visual Art - 20/20

Economics - 25/25

Methods 19/20

IA2

Physics - 17/20 

Maths Methods - 12/15

Economics-  25/25

Chem - 17/20

English - 24/25

Art - 25/25

Some have yet to be confirmed by the QCAA, but yeah. i feel like my grades are not good enough anyway so. I feel like a failure and I feel like I’m good for nothing, like I’m unremarkable.I get that there are other careers and pathways, but I literally have no hope. For engineering, I want to do software engineering but that probably deals with lots of complex code etc. Maths and physics aren’t my strongest suits either. I could do law, but I don’t know how stable it will be financially. I want to get a 98 atar ideally, but idk how possible that would be. I don’t know if someone could help out or give suggestions that would be great. thank you.

Ive been looking at the dymocks atar calculator and it seems like even a 90 in maths ext1 doesn't even become higher than like an e.g 94 in bio? considering how hard ext1 is idk if i should keep it like sure the scaling is good but i thought it'd be way higher than that. 94 in bio is way easier than like e.g a 91 in math ext1. I feel like it might be wrong tho but like e.g the raw marks database says 88.57 only goes to like a 96? so if im going for a 99+ i needa get like 94 etc?

Hi everyone! I am a year 10 sydney selective school student and have to give in my early subject selection form. I don't really have an idea what to do with my last 2 units. I was hoping anybody could give me insights into what subjects might be suitable. Honestly I'm looking for a subject that might not put much strain on me because I'm already taking a few time consuming subjects. My selection so far is:
Math Extension 1
English Advanced
Physics
Chemistry
Software Engineering

I'm in Year 11 and I'm finding Business Studies and Legal Studies way harder than I expected. There's just so much content to remember, and I don't really know the best way to study for them. For those of you who did well in these subjects, how did you study? Did you make notes, flashcards, mind maps, practice essays, or just do heaps of past papers? I'd really appreciate any advice, study techniques, or resources that helped you get good marks. Thanks!

guys im doin 13 units currently and am planning to do 14 units in year 12 (cuz i want to also do science extension cuz it seems interesting) im doing math adv, math ext1, eng adv, chem, bio, phys and indo beginners obv i dont wanna be doing all 14 for my hsc but so far im doing good in all of them (but probs weakest in physics and math ext1 tho i think i can def improve in these) i was thinking maybe after the first assesment task wtv subjects im not rank top 10 in i drop and i keep doing this throughout assesments (whever i drop out of top 10) till i only have 10 units? and if like im top 10 for everything (highly unlikely) i keep all? or will this lead to burnout?

in NSW btw, I want to be a vet but there is no way i'm getting a 98.50+ atar for the assured/guaranteed pathways. these are my current marks for term 3/2 (some AT3s havent come back yet):

English Advanced - my average is 85%

English Extension 1 - avg is 83%

Physics - 60% for AT1, can't remember what I got for AT2 but it's like around the 80%-ish mark

Maths Advanced - 77% avg across all terms

Chemistry - 84%

Biology - avg. 87%

like im sure if i pushed myself a little more I could put myself back into the late 80s - early 90s range, but i genuinely CANNOT concentrate on study, i sit down and immediately disassociate until an hour has passed and i gotta get up again. i feel so overwhelmingly drained by everything. And honestly I was FINE up until term 2 hit, and all my progress went down the drain - most of my marks in term 1 were in the early 90s/late 80s, but then again they were the easier year 12 topics and not these absolute mind-boggling monstrosities that i'm studying currently.

If you guys have any study tips, please share, but also please don't be that person who goes "oh when I was in Year 12 I was studying for 24 hours straight and I got a 99.95 atar haha, you just need to lock in", I understand that you need to work hard but how do you do that when you physically cannot force yourself to pick up a pen???

anyways, sorry, rant over, i'm just really frustrated. i've been trying to fix my habits but the pressure to do well from both myself and my family is really making me feel like i should just give up all together.

Hello, I am a Year 10 student in WA currently needing to complete my subject selection. I have to pick 6 subjects including a general. I am leaning more towards the business side of things (but on a side note I am more so interested in the food industry side of things regarding business). This is what I am considering taking:

English Literature

Maths Applications

Economics

Philosophy and ethics

Accounting and finance

Food tech general

I am not taking science as I have no passion for that side of things. A lot of this is very heavy on the literary side of things. I am not too worried about scaling but I do want to know if I probably have a lesser chance of getting a higher ATAR cause some of these subjects scale down. My mom told me to think about doing methods instead of apps but I'm terrible at methods, been failing all the exams and tests and truthfully I have no interest in it. And secondly she mentioned that accounting and finance scales down and I should reconsider taking it as a subject because In business you can just hire people, but I thought it would be a useful skill to learn, but I'm not sure.

Any suggestions and advice would help dearly thank you!

Hello! I’m a year 10 student currently in my subject selection process. My strengths are more humanities based subjects, I was just wondering if I should drop maths or just pick maths standard. I’ve heard it scales really bad and I’ve never been able to properly score really high on my maths tests. I have the option to pick between math standard or ancient history.

These are my subjects at the moment.

English Advanced
English extension
Persian continuers
Modern history
Legal studies
Society and culture
Maths standard or Ancient history

I was also wondering anyone picked subjects similar to mine and what ATAR they got.

I’ve only started to take this term seriously after wasting my first 2 terms of Year 12

Here are my internals so far:

Eng Adv 50% (8/10) I haven’t received my AT3 yet
Maths Adv 50% (8/10)
Japanese Continuers 92% (1/8)
Japanese Extension 54% (32/35)
Chemistry 72% (5/8) Haven’t Received AT3 yet
Biology 65% (4/26) Haven’t Received AT3 yet

I want to know what ATAR I can get realistically, I regret that I only started to take Year 12 seriously when trials are coming up.

I’m in Y10 doing the HSC do you think these are too many/difficult subjects? Cuz im not dumb but i’m not a genius either

Maths Ext 1

Eng Ex1 and Adv

Physics

Chem

Visual arts

Geography

I will drop either art or geography in the first term because im still undecided. Help do you think this is reasonable cause people say most of these subjects are really hard am i cooked

hi all! i'm a yr10 student in a fully selective high school that makes you do entrance exams for most subjects to take in yr 11 suck as ext 1 maths/eng phys, chem, etc;

ive tried for all of them but i am very worried because im struggling a lot in the mathy subjects and im pressured to do maths ext1/2 and science subjects when i really want to do legal and english ext1/2. the maths ext1 entrance exam is coming soon and appearantly its extremele dificult and ive recently felt really stressed about school especially since reports are coming up soon.

any tips on what to do and how to feel better?

I have questions but it seems like nobody has ever done this subject only 'plans' to.

hello all! thank you for reading.

hsc subjects i’m currently ranked:

ancient history: 4/9 (top 5 we are all about 1 mark apart, average of 89% but i’m very strong and usually perform 93%+)

english advanced: 10/73 (i am 1 mark off rank 3, below 30 is poor performing)

english extension 1: 10/11 (not sure how this cohort performs— i’m not bad at english i just put no time into extension 1 but i believe i could come back, average is 66%)

english extension 2: 7/7 (i don’t believe ranks count for this but my average is 76%, my major work is probably average)

history extension: 2/11 (weak cohort but top 3 strong i believe)

maths advanced: 16/23 (including extension 1, my average is 70%, hoping for band 5)

physics: 5/14 (weak sub 10, im poor in this subject and average is 72%, hoping for band 5)

thank you all— i’m really hoping to grind very hard in trials as a good predicted will save my life for international offers.

(my school gave me a predicted 92 before my extension 2 mark dropped— not sure how accurate that was.)

Im still in year 11 and go to quite a decent maths school (parramatta high) its like rank 50 in state. However im always performing slightly below average, only when I reeaaally lock in then can I get like above average or higher, and i feel compared to my peers the amount of effort i put relative to marks is way higher. I've never gone to tutoring. I feel like maths advanced is slightly too easy but maths extension 1 slightly too hard. Does extension 1 differ much in terms of advanced (is it just more difficult) or is it also like way more creative and less obvious in that way kinda making it harder to prepare for cuz i suck when it comes to all that sneaky maths stuff.

For instance i can literally NEVER do the enrichment questions at all in the extension textbook (for extension exercises only and a few advanced) without the aid of AI cuz even when I know the conetnt itself i struggle with like using it in 'weird' or 'creative' approaches like what enrichment encourages.