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If your internal performance is average and your HSC exam performance is outstanding, then your Assessment Mark will be average and your Examination Mark will be outstanding. The Assessment Mark is the mark that reflects your internal performance and contributes 50% of your overall HSC mark in...

Being ranked first in a subject is the best position that you can be in, as that will allow you to maximise your Assessment Mark, which is the mark that you receive that reflects your internal performance and contributes half of your overall HSC mark in the subject. In your case, maintaining...

You seem to be passionate about history. Essentially, if your performance in the Modern History year 11 course was favourable, and given that you enjoyed this subject so far, you appear to have a good basis for taking History Extension in year 12. At the same time, you should consider your other...

JSTOR is a database that hosts content such as academic journals and books. Similar to other databases such as Emerald Insight and Wiley Online Library, most of JSTOR's content is paid. As such, paid articles can either be individually downloaded for a fee (such as the one that you mentioned)...

Essentially, an ATAR of 99.95 can be achieved with any subject combination (including Earth and Environmental Science), as long as your performance across your subjects is of a sufficiently high standard. This means that the answer to OP's question is definitely yes. Looking at previous HSC...

No worries, I am happy to help. Being ranked in the middle of a cohort can be interpreted differently depending on whether the school is ranked high or low (the ranking itself does not have much significance beyond indicating the academic capability of the school cohort). Being ranked in the...

I think that there seems to be a slight nuance in your understanding of the moderation process. Perhaps some clarification would be helpful. 😄 Essentially, students' marks are not increased because they attend a high-ranked school. Instead, the cohort of a high-ranked school is inherently...

I suppose that the HSC system is intended to be more forgiving in making the HSC exam worth 50% as opposed to 100% (as is the case of other educational systems), which creates an opportunity for students to make a comeback at different stages of their HSC journey, as opposed to having 100% of...

They would receive the lowest HSC exam mark as their Assessment Mark, and they would keep their own HSC exam mark. For example, if the lowest HSC exam mark achieved by any student in the cohort was 70, the student ranked last internally will also receive 70 as their Assessment Mark. Assuming...

There are different elements to consider when determining the order of your preferences. First, it is reasonable to assume that entry to higher-ranked selective schools such as James Ruse Agricultural High School and Baulkham Hills High School will be more competitive than to lower-ranked...

No worries, I think that an important thing to do before going to your teacher for help is to do your best to understand whichever concept you may be struggling with. You may find that you have made some progress, although you may eventually be stuck at a certain point. This is better than not...

A scaled mark is a mark that UAC uses as part of calculating an ATAR. It is produced using a raw HSC mark which is not reported to students.

In determining the emotion that you aim to elicit from your reader, you may wish to consider your character/personality. If you are naturally a humourous or optimistic person, you could write an imaginative piece that covers certain events experienced by the main character(s) which can make...

To clarify, ATAR estimates can be produced using year 11 results and ranks. A year 11 student is simply treated as a year 12 student for this purpose, although it obviously cannot cover potential changes in cohort size (for example, if students drop a subject) and individual student performance...

It seems like you have the potential to be an academically capable student (as seen in your Mathematics Advanced and Software Engineering results and, to a lower extent,), although your performance is being limited as a result of your inconsistent application to your studies. The good thing is...

A reminder to please post subject-specific threads in their relevant forum. Would the following working help?

In terms of your study aspirations beyond the HSC, your subject selection seems appropriate. If you consider computer science degrees, you will find that they treat either Mathematics Advanced or Mathematics Extension 1 as assumed knowledge (depending on the university). You are currently taking...

No worries! I'm very happy to hear that! All the best!