Should I keep maths advanced or drop to standard? (1 Viewer)

bluntacademicweapon

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Hey guys, I am having trouble deciding if I should keep maths advanced or drop to standard.
I just got my first HSC maths advanced mark back and got 45% for a task that weighs 10% of my internal. Would I still be able to get a band 6 and what marks would I need to achieve in the next assessments to obtain this? I am willing to do the work and study to improve in advanced. I want to do a double degree in law and science in USYD, which has advanced as a pre requisite and is one of the reasons why I want to keep advanced. But I am afraid that I might not even get the band 4 needed to even get into USYD and get an atar high enough for law. I also want to pursue science or the law degree in another university and I want to know if its beneficial for me to keep advanced since its assumed knowledge.

I have been considering dropping to standard for a long time ever since I got my prelim exam back (which was 25%) and my teacher has been telling me that standard would be better. I was top of my class when I was doing 5.2 maths in year 10 and I am wondering if the standard content is similar to the content in maths 5.2. My cohort for standard is pretty horrible as the average for the prelim exam was a 40% while advanced was around 50% so I want to know if this would negatively impact the scaling for internal marks.
 

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stay in adv and try to improve
agreed. also, if you wanna improve, the one thing that helped me LOADS was doing like every past paper i could find. ik you've probably been told this before but doing past papers is acc so helpful i cannot recommend it enough. it helped me feel a lot more confident in maths and boosted my rank
 

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But I am afraid that I might not even get the band 4 needed to even get into USYD and get an atar high enough for law.
advanced maths scales extremely well, raw marks database shows you just how little you need for a band 4
i think you should stay, its a hard subject if you don't have a god gifted talent for maths though so hang in there
 

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I want to do a double degree in law and science in USYD, which has advanced as a pre requisite and is one of the reasons why I want to keep advanced. But I am afraid that I might not even get the band 4 needed to even get into USYD and get an atar high enough for law. I also want to pursue science or the law degree in another university and I want to know if its beneficial for me to keep advanced since its assumed knowledge.
trust me, i didnt do maths adv in my hsc (picked up standard in year 11 because our school didnt even offer advanced 💀) and im having a hard time trying to get into my dream course at usyd because i havent met the prerequisite. my two options are to do essentially a filler year in a different degree and transfer once i take the equivalent maths classes in uni or to do the MOOC bridging course, which is what im trying to do and wow as someone who never got past precalc i am absolutely struggling to cram this new knowledge into my head in the span of 6 weeks. if you dont do maths adv now you will probably have to learn the same content in uni anyway.

so i recommend you keep maths adv for the prerequisite, i dropped standard maths altogether in year 12 because once i realised it didnt fulfil any uni prereqs i felt like there was no reason for me to keep taking it (and i sucked). believe in yourself, hard work will pay off, and there are tons of people on this site that can help with any math related things you need. good luck!!
 

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