i got 99.5+ without studying 9 hours a day and while keeping a job and social life, the main thing is to focus on your weaker subjects (for me this was English), get frequent and early feedback from your teachers to ace in school assignments and then really grind hard with past papers and make...
I mean your only real options for complete electives from another course (at least at usyd) would be maths 1a, maths 1b or discrete maths which you could use to then do second year maths units if you want. at usyd (will be similar at other unis), maths 1a covers linear algebra (think matrices...
i would say sorta a continuation of ext 2 difficulty wise in first year and then it really ramps up after that, but also uni is a lot more lenient with a lot of stuff and you don’t need to master things completely, and you can cheese a lot of stuff.
studying straight up mathematics is also an option, and if ur do well then it can actually be quite employable in finance etc
if you’re not interested in that there’s also always the option of studying whatever and then just doing maths electives on the side
taking a gap year is fine for eas
I’m fairly certain this is false, and on top of eas a lot of unis also have seperate more generous schemes for medicine for regional students and students from low socioeconomic areas
uac is for normal entry and some unis early entry (most do it through their own system though). 1000% you should pay for it though lol if you plan on going to uni, and do it now before it becomes $200