Has anyone got an ATAR of 99.90/99.95 without doing Extension 2 maths?? (2 Viewers)

[myafanatic]

I technically got 99.90 without any extensions, haha. Neither HX or MX1 counted towards my ATAR.

 

[khorne]

Yes, but its significantly harder in my opinion

 

[someth1ng]

Greek (Classical) scales higher than MX2

Not true.

 

[khorne]

Not true.

only for extremely high marks

 

[someth1ng]

I technically got 99.90 without any extensions, haha. Neither HX or MX1 counted towards my ATAR.

Errr...how the fuck did HX at 49/50 not count...

 

[khorne]

Errr...how the fuck did HX at 49/50 not count...

scaling, obviously, given that 49/50 could be 98 or 97

 

[myafanatic]

Errr...how the fuck did HX at 49/50 not count...

Yeah I was surprised too! But apparently at the super high percentiles HX doesn't scale too much better while I guess Eco does so... :S

 

[Eg155]

well some girl at my old school last year got 99.90 with visual arts, ancient history, bio, chem and SOR1 and maths ext... one extension but there are 4 pretty average/really bad scalers there ....

 

[Aerath]

Heaps of people do.

 

[petermeetswendy]

pick your subjects on interest and what you'll think you would do well in, not on scaling

+1
I say screw scalling of subjects do what interests you and floats your boat. Just think, it would be better enjoying Art for example than failing like a whale in Maths E2.

 

[petermeetswendy]

My sister did well even with English E2, she did Art, General Maths, Advance-E2, & Legal studies and gotten a UAI of 96.3.
But in other words, if you don't do an extension, just heads down, butt up and study.

 

[Cl324]

Yes of course!
however you just need to score in a higher percentile in the subjects that you are doing
Depends on your natural ability and how much effort your willing to put in

 

[funkygirl59]

These questions are common...and the answer is always: you can get whatever atar with whatever combo of subjects. I didn't do any maths or science or anything for my HSC in 2011 and i got 99.85 (i know that's not 99.9/.95 but i feel i'm close enough to be able to properly give an opinion). I did legal studies, english advanced, music 2, ext 1 english, economics, ancient and hist ext. - none of which were considered very hard or anything. But I got a state rank for english advanced and history extensionn, strong marks in my other subjects (all 95+). Now that's a lot better than if i had done maths and science as my marks for those subjects would probably have ended up around 90 or even in the 80s: scaling CANNOT save a shit mark.

 

[Aerath]

I should probably refer OP and any other prospective students who will (undoubtedly) ask this question:

http://community.boredofstudies.org/showthread.php?t=264957

 

[stevey6404]

Yah, our due got 99.95 by doing ext Maths 1 accelerated in year 11 and runner up got 99.90 without doing ANY Maths at all. I also know this other girl who got 99.95 who only did 2U.