Does the amount of units u do affect scaling and stuff... (1 Viewer)

[FinalFantasy]

If i only do 10units worth of subjects, is that not as good as doing 13units worth of subjects even if i don't use the other 3?

 

[claudia_p]

As long as you don't stuff any of your exams up and you actually study during some of your free periods, it won't make a difference.

They can only count 10 units towards your UAI- your best 2 units of English and your best 8 of everything else. It's just that some people like to take more subjects in case something goes wrong in one of them or just that they are interested in it.

 

[acmilan]

Doesnt make a difference so long as you got exactly the same marks in the same 10 units

 

[FinalFantasy]

ok thx...
im just worried cuz some ppl tend to say that dey got low marks cuz dey only did 10 units..
i currently have 13 units, and theres 3 silly units sticking out(SOR 1, SDD)
religion i was FORCED to do it by my stupid school and i CAN'T DROP IT LOL
it gonna end up having band 1 on my HSC certificate -_-
SDD i intend to drop it if it doesn't matter if amount of units is not proportional to scaling.

 

[Kulazzi]

yeah, I dropped SDD b-c I really didn't understand the content (coding and such) and also because my teacher was crap. And I'd also had to do three major works and our school doesn't allow anymone to do three majors so SDD was my first choice to drop. But apparently it has a high scaling (which is why one of my friends dropped it, picked it back up and dropped IPT)

 

[acmilan]

ok thx...
im just worried cuz some ppl tend to say that dey got low marks cuz dey only did 10 units..
i currently have 13 units, and theres 3 silly units sticking out(SOR 1, SDD)
religion i was FORCED to do it by my stupid school and i CAN'T DROP IT LOL
it gonna end up having band 1 on my HSC certificate -_-
SDD i intend to drop it if it doesn't matter if amount of units is not proportional to scaling.

The only advantage with 13 unit is that you have back up units in case you screw up in some subjects.

 

[FinalFantasy]

yeah, I dropped SDD b-c I really didn't understand the content (coding and such) and also because my teacher was crap. And I'd also had to do three major works and our school doesn't allow anymone to do three majors so SDD was my first choice to drop. But apparently it has a high scaling (which is why one of my friends dropped it, picked it back up and dropped IPT)

Wow.. u can drop subjects and pick dem back up?!!
Yeah i heard about da major works in SDD, it's gonna take a lot of work and effort for me to get 90%+ in SDD so i might as well drop it.
Too time consuming for a low scaling subject.. (last time i saw it doesn't scale any good, it scaled less than religion lol)

 

[~ ReNcH ~]

Wow.. u can drop subjects and pick dem back up?!!
Yeah i heard about da major works in SDD, it's gonna take a lot of work and effort for me to get 90%+ in SDD so i might as well drop it.
Too time consuming for a low scaling subject.. (last time i saw it doesn't scale any good, it scaled less than religion lol)

IPT has worse scaling, but is easier to do well in.

 

[acmilan]

Wow.. u can drop subjects and pick dem back up?!!
Yeah i heard about da major works in SDD, it's gonna take a lot of work and effort for me to get 90%+ in SDD so i might as well drop it.
Too time consuming for a low scaling subject.. (last time i saw it doesn't scale any good, it scaled less than religion lol)

Remember though that the major work isnt part of your HSC exam like other subjects

 

[FinalFantasy]

IPT has worse scaling, but is easier to do well in.

yes... IPT easier to do well AND it hardly takes any time as well... it is just common sense most of it. Dat's y i choose to do IPT instead lol

 

[Claudia]

Hey but remembr that no one this yr who got 100 UAI did just 10 units, no one.... so like, i think it IS proportional for some reason. If you do just 10 units, you tend to spend too much time on them and go beyond the syllabus, kinda brining your marks down. Spreading ur time across more subjects leads to more cramming-style studying, the best, most effective and productive kind, and ultimately the highest UAI with less work overall.

 

[FinalFantasy]

Hey but remembr that no one this yr who got 100 UAI did just 10 units, no one.... so like, i think it IS proportional for some reason. If you do just 10 units, you tend to spend too much time on them and go beyond the syllabus, kinda brining your marks down. Spreading ur time across more subjects leads to more cramming-style studying, the best, most effective and productive kind, and ultimately the highest UAI with less work overall.

But I won't get 100.. What about those ppl w\ 98, 99 UAI..?
Do some of them only did 10 units?

 

[~ ReNcH ~]

Hey but remembr that no one this yr who got 100 UAI did just 10 units, no one.... so like, i think it IS proportional for some reason. If you do just 10 units, you tend to spend too much time on them and go beyond the syllabus, kinda brining your marks down. Spreading ur time across more subjects leads to more cramming-style studying, the best, most effective and productive kind, and ultimately the highest UAI with less work overall.

Maybe it's complacency.
I.e. "I only do 10 units, I get 10 study periods a week so I don't have to study" kind of attitude...the better people would actually take advantage of only having 10 units, and get 100 with it. (although people such as laurie do 15...and get 100)

 

[~ ReNcH ~]

But I won't get 100.. What about those ppl w\ 98, 99 UAI..?
Do some of them only did 10 units?

16% of the 839 students who got 98.00-98.95 did 10 units

 

[FinalFantasy]

Thank You. Now I am confident about dropping the boring SDD! Muahaha!
I'll drop it as soon as the teacher hands out the major assignment.

 

[lala2]

In 2002, a girl topped Biology, came 8th or soemthing in Legal Studies and 12th or something in PDHPE, and she did only ten units and achieevd a UAI of 100 (her other four units were 2U Maths and 2U English). So you can achieve miracle results, but you have to be sure of yourself, that's all. But eleven units isn't too bad, though....you never know, SOR might come in useful....

And what does your school recommend? Our school is really against anyoen doing 11 units, let alone 10 untis (I think your parents have to write in and stuff and really give good reason why you wanna do 10 units), so see what your school says.

 

[~ ReNcH ~]

In 2002, a girl topped Biology, came 8th or soemthing in Legal Studies and 12th or something in PDHPE, and she did only ten units and achieevd a UAI of 100 (her other four units were 2U Maths and 2U English). So you can achieve miracle results, but you have to be sure of yourself, that's all. But eleven units isn't too bad, though....you never know, SOR might come in useful....

And what does your school recommend? Our school is really against anyoen doing 11 units, let alone 10 untis (I think your parents have to write in and stuff and really give good reason why you wanna do 10 units), so see what your school says.

Interesting...it's always difficult to get a UAI in the high 99s with Business/PD/Legal/Art etc. when you're doing 10 units. Your friend must have really aced them all.

 

[zhongie]

I don't think it really matters. So long as you do well. I did 13 units and some would say that's alot to keep track of, but I got Band 6 in all of them. So, it really depends on whether you're confident or not.

 

[Sarah168]

16% of the 839 students who got 98.00-98.95 did 10 units

I am part of a statistic. Yay.

 

[~ ReNcH ~]

I am part of a statistic. Yay.

Don't get too excited...I'm not always a reliable source of stats - you'd have to look to Lazarus for that