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also I don't think it gets "halved" If I'm not mistaken, everything is calculated out of 50. See this: http://www.uac.edu.au/documents/atar/2014-tables/A3.pdf For 1-unit subjects, they stay as a mark out of 50 For 2-unit subjects, they get "doubled"

Let's say for example the worst (i.e. the one with the lowest scaled mark* ) subject out of the 6 subjects(11 units) you choose is Visual Arts. And Visual Arts and Maths Ext 1 have scaled marks of 70 out of 100 and 40 out of 50 respectively Then you get 35 from 1 unit of Visual Art, 40 from...

if you have a 2-unit subject worse than(i.e. having a lower scaled mark than) maths ext 1, math ext 1(1 unit) and half of that 2 unit subject(1unit) would be counted as two units i.e. half of that 2 unit subject get discarded for the calculation of your ATAR

if some one has "rich high class" parents(with connections and everything), he/she wouldn't necessarily need a very high ATAR to be more "successful in life" than those who obtain 99.95 ATAR's (with or without a "Tiger mum") (look at law graduates for example)

also try and get past papers from your school.

I don't think we're on the same page. I get what you're talking about but that's not my main point. What I am trying say is that both the internal ranking AND the relative gaps between assessment marks are taken into account. Therefore coming 4th internally in the following scenarios would be...

From the information given by BOSTES, if some one is ranked last internally, his/her moderated assessment mark would be the lowest but DO NOT necessarily correspond to the bottom exam mark obtained by the school's cohort. Or in general, the person with Nth internal rank would get a moderated...

not necessarily, think about these 2 (extreme) scenarios with the same total (hence the same mean), top and bottom marks: 1. coming 4th in these assessment marks: 95, 94, 93, 92, 71,70 2. coming 4th in these assessment marks: 95, 94, 93, 82, 81, 70 Would it be fair if they're treated the...

also found this: read more at: http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/hsc-results/moderation.html

from BOSTES: read more at : http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/hsc-results/determining-achievement.html

Just as a reference, a friend of my friend got 98.xx ATAR coming from a low ranked school. And the second highest ATAR was in the 80s.

Theoretically, there's no difference. I think the system is designed in such a way that it is fair for every one. As Yunli's example illustrates, they do take your internal rankings into account. i.e. low ranking at higher ranked school ~ high ranking at lower ranked school So as long as...

Thank you Drongoski :D

@OP, many people are in the same boat(even in selective schools that are "good at maths") and don't feel too upset about it what you can do in the meantime is try to learn by yourself ( you're gonna need this skill later on in University anyways), or if you have a particular maths question to...

+1 @curiouscat, some people are narrow minded (possibly incompetent and/or just dislike teaching,i.e. it's "just a job" for her) , don't "waste time" trying to change them but still I think it was highly unprofessional of her to say things such as: Regardless of whether or not having a...

+1 to Drongoski's post, feel bad that I cannot rep it :( also you can have a look at the core/compulsory maths subjects required for your degree at your uni as it might be slightly different for various courses at each university but essentially the topics involved would be something like...

"You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Drongoski again."

The reasoning should actually go the other way around, if you know what I mean "The function y = 2x^3 + 6x -2 is always increasing" means that you have to show (as Kaido said) "y'>0 for all x values" in the domain of the function (in this case it's just all real x) You found the derivative to...

What is the derivative of y = 2x^3 + 6x -2 ? if you've found the derivative, what does it mean for a function to be increasing ? (in terms of its derivative y' ) and note for any n(positive or negative or 0), we always have n^2 >= 0