Year 8-11 Selective Result Discussion (5 Viewers)

[Smartboiiii]

someone said they're not fully science, they're just like scientific diagrams. I'm still gonna prepare just in case. I mean how hard can it get?....

Personally for me it was a diagram of like patches and how they’re drugs or something and you hard to answer 3 questions regarding the diagram about like the order of the stuff placed.. I can’t remember fully

 

[Smartboiiii]

Nooo you can do it!! Your scores aren't even that bad. I'm sure you'll at least get an interview if you focus on all the subjects. I kinda only focused on abstract because I wasn't familiar with it, and ended up getting top 10% for that but middle 50 for the rest lol.

Lol I just don’t know where to begin, what to study etc and if a portfolio matters cause apparently mid ladder schools only care about hast mainly

 

[Smartboiiii]

yea fure sure cuz last yr i got
reading - pretty sure in the middle or high middle of 50%
maths - dropped to high 50% or smt
writing - bottom 10%
abstract - in the top 10%/5%

Oh wow your writing definitely improved then
Any tips on how I can improve next year cause I also lwk kinda sold writing too

 

[aaliya]

someone said they're not fully science, they're just like scientific diagrams. I'm still gonna prepare just in case. I mean how hard can it get?....

exactly u just need to apply reading n maths skills to those scientific graphs qs etc

 

[Smartboiiii]

exactly u just need to apply reading n maths skills to those scientific graphs qs etc

Lol but I’m not even kidding when the kids were walking with their parents getting picked up after the test, I literally heard like 5 kids say to their parents “the math was really hard” and I chuckled to myself (;

 

[Viva_student2025]

Lol I just don’t know where to begin, what to study etc and if a portfolio matters cause apparently mid ladder schools only care about hast mainly

Same I have no idea how to prepare lol. I'm doing yr 9 entry for penrith and girra btw. I'm gonna have to aim for higher because they have less spots

 

[aaliya]

Personally for me it was a diagram of like patches and how they’re drugs or something and you hard to answer 3 questions regarding the diagram about like the order of the stuff placed.. I can’t remember fully

i got that question 2 last yr n this yr 2

 

[spiderlemonade]

Same I have no idea how to prepare lol. I'm doing yr 9 entry for penrith and girra btw. I'm gonna have to aim for higher because they have less spots

wb ruse or baulko since they open up 30 spots? cause for penrith and girra theres barely any spots for year 9 entry

 

[aaliya]

Oh wow your writing definitely improved then
Any tips on how I can improve next year cause I also lwk kinda sold writing too

for Writing - idk how I got within the top 15%, like my previous attempts were in the bottom 10% during yr 8 n 9 entry.

but what i did diff was that i wrote using my my experience (aafc) n began w a title ( a penrith n girra kid told me to do that n i believe that's imp since the majority forget to write the title during exam) n have a good conclusion that links to the prompt by discussing it or telling how the character understood, did or what they learned in that narrative. Also, if u struggle w creativity during writing like me, then go to reedsyprompts. It's good n has abt many unique topics, etc.

ik the hast prompts r weird like they aren't the old style, they're more of a statement, u either agree or disagree. n the they become much easier to answer thru narrative n discussion, cuz that's the only way u can really agree/disagree or uniquely answer the prompt.

 

[Viva_student2025]

wb ruse or baulko since they open up 30 spots? cause for penrith and girra theres barely any spots for year 9 entry

Yeah I'm totally gonna do ruse and maybe baulko, but I'd still have to aim for higher because they're like top schools. I wasn't actually gonna do HAST again for Penrith and girra, but this one person made it into both for year 9 entry, and their results weren't impossible to achieve. That kinda made me want to do it ig

 

[clockiework]

Sleep schedule is cooked ikr

bro im completely cooked from next yr when i start going tech, i have to wake up at 6am latest, and ill be home by like 4:30 or smthin and not to mention random ahh typical sydney train delays, its honestly faster to drive from where i live to tech, but my parents cant drive me everyday and most of time ill have to take train. gng i might have to learn teleportation

 

[clockiework]

Lol I wish I could go to school carefree but I’m basically forced to get a 99+ atar for med school :v

dang ur going into med? cool, i wanna do engineering, but i also want a 98.45+ atar minimum to get into top international unis

 

[clockiework]

for Writing - idk how I got within the top 15%, like my previous attempts were in the bottom 10% during yr 8 n 9 entry.

but what i did diff was that i wrote using my my experience (aafc) n began w a title ( a penrith n girra kid told me to do that n i believe that's imp since the majority forget to write the title during exam) n have a good conclusion that links to the prompt by discussing it or telling how the character understood, did or what they learned in that narrative. Also, if u struggle w creativity during writing like me, then go to reedsyprompts. It's good n has abt many unique topics, etc.

ik the hast prompts r weird like they aren't the old style, they're more of a statement, u either agree or disagree. n the they become much easier to answer thru narrative n discussion, cuz that's the only way u can really agree/disagree or uniquely answer the prompt.

really? i didnt realise not writing title was that common, writing title is lowkey my first instinct i got top 10% writing btw, but its weird since i spent least time practicing writing before HAST (since im skilled at writing) and spent most time working on abstract and maths, but i got middle 50 for abstract lol

 

[Smartboiiii]

bro im completely cooked from next yr when i start going tech, i have to wake up at 6am latest, and ill be home by like 4:30 or smthin and not to mention random ahh typical sydney train delays, its honestly faster to drive from where i live to tech, but my parents cant drive me everyday and most of time ill have to take train. gng i might have to learn teleportation

Broooo I live all the way in carlingford so I gotta travel for almost 2 hours if I make tech but I’d love to sacrifice time if that means I’m in Sydney tech =v

 

[Smartboiiii]

dang ur going into med? cool, i wanna do engineering, but i also want a 98.45+ atar minimum to get into top international unis

Oh yeah Sydney tech is perfect for engineering.. they got really strong math faculties

 

[aaliya]

mhm

 

[Smartboiiii]

mhm

Just wondering what did you use to prepare for the hast after you saw that you failed for year 9 entry? Were your reports the issue or just poor hast performance? Cause year 8 sem 1 I’m getting 4a 4b and year 8 sem 2 im getting 7a and 1b idk if that’s seen as competitive enough

 

[shaunakkk]

Just wondering what did you use to prepare for the hast after you saw that you failed for year 9 entry? Were your reports the issue or just poor hast performance? Cause year 8 sem 1 I’m getting 4a 4b and year 8 sem 2 im getting 7a and 1b idk if that’s seen as competitive enough

ngl reports are not that important for hast EXCEPT if its penrith, a person got top 2% (had 4cs in yr 8 s1) got in girra - rej from penr, I got top 4% i usually 4a's to 6a's rest bs and got into both, so you can definetly see the discrepancy in the deciding factors (obviously from my experience)

 

[Smartboiiii]

ngl reports are not that important for hast EXCEPT if its penrith, a person got top 2% (had 4cs in yr 8 s1) got in girra - rej from penr, I got top 4% i usually 4a's to 6a's rest bs and got into both, so you can definetly see the discrepancy in the deciding factors (obviously from my experience)

Yeah I see it
But I’m genuinely wondering how people are saying get top 10% in the hast like it’s the easiest thing in the world

 

[aaliya]

Just wondering what did you use to prepare for the hast after you saw that you failed for year 9 entry? Were your reports the issue or just poor hast performance? Cause year 8 sem 1 I’m getting 4a 4b and year 8 sem 2 im getting 7a and 1b idk if that’s seen as competitive enough

i used the zee file and i focused on weakness, which was writing creativity, graph reading n my reports last yr was good but i feel like it was both poor hast report n portfolio sucked