99+ ATAR with Humanities? (1 Viewer)

[theycallmebob]

so i have realised that now, nearing the end of my preliminary year, i have made some crappy subject choices. basically all humanities subjects, just see my signature.

as far as i have gathered, scaling plays a massive role in your ATAR, and there is a massive advantage if you choose the maths and sciences. i just chose based on what i was interested in, like the teachers kept saying, but they never told me how much difference it can make.

is it really that much of a difference?

is it possible to get 99.95 with humanities?

have any of you?

 

[enoilgam]

To quote wendybird "you can get any ATAR with any combination of subjects", and she got 99.95 without any maths or sciences counting towards her ATAR. Here is her thread, which I reakon every year 10 student should read before picking their HSC subjects http://community.boredofstudies.org/showthread.php?t=241939

 

[Hermes1]

there was a guy from knox last year who got 99.95 without any sciences, maffs or english extensions.

 

[theycallmebob]

ok, so is it excessively harder or just a bit?

 

[Aquawhite]

so i have realised that now, nearing the end of my preliminary year, i have made some crappy subject choices. basically all humanities subjects, just see my signature.

as far as i have gathered, scaling plays a massive role in your ATAR, and there is a massive advantage if you choose the maths and sciences. i just chose based on what i was interested in, like the teachers kept saying, but they never told me how much difference it can make.

is it really that much of a difference?

is it possible to get 99.95 with humanities?

have any of you?

A good friend of mine from Dubbo got 99.95 last year. She got state ranks in Visual Arts, English Extension 2 and Philosophy Distinction. There were only Englishes and Histories in her subjects (+ Art and Philosophy).

It's entirely possible, and scaling seems to be becoming very balanced nowadays.

 

[michaeljennings]

there was a guy from knox last year who got 99.95 without any sciences, maffs or english extensions.

wow lol thats pretty impressive. If my atar ends up being above 99, the only reason will be because i do ext 2 maths

 

[enoilgam]

ok, so is it excessively harder or just a bit?

It depends on your skill level, if you arent that good at maths and science, but are great at humanities than doing maths and sciences will make it much harder.

 

[Hermes1]

ok, so is it excessively harder or just a bit?

if u want to get 99.95 without just humanities and no extensions u will have to get at least one state rank. and u hav to be pretty gud at essay writing.

 

[theycallmebob]

if u want to get 99.95 without just humanities and no extensions u will have to get at least one state rank. and u hav to be pretty gud at essay writing.

i'm doing ext. 1&2 english

 

[Absolutezero]

A guy I know got 100 UAI with humanities.

 

[theycallmebob]

A good friend of mine from Dubbo got 99.95 last year. She got state ranks in Visual Arts, English Extension 2 and Philosophy Distinction. There were only Englishes and Histories in her subjects (+ Art and Philosophy).

It's entirely possible, and scaling seems to be becoming very balanced nowadays.

since when can you do philosophy? that would be awesome.

 

[Absolutezero]

since when can you do philosophy? that would be awesome.

It is/was a distinction course, although AFAIK they've completely remodelled the way that system works.

 

[Aquawhite]

since when can you do philosophy? that would be awesome.

All previous years to now you could have. You needed to have accelerated a course. There used to be Literature, Philosophy and Cosmology on offer, but due to the numbers always falling and the funs no longer available to facilitate it (BOS is a huge tight-ass here) the courses were cut back to just Philosophy and now they're all gone unless you want to pay money and do the "University Pathways" crap which does no count for your HSC at all.

It was a good course, I did it, and loved it.

 

[theycallmebob]

well, that sucks, philosophy is one of my main interest areas

 

[Aquawhite]

well, that sucks, philosophy is one of my main interest areas

Take it as a minor at uni; I think it'd be great.

 

[theycallmebob]

yeah I'm planning on having it as a double major at USYD

 

[Cheesecake_a]

And what if you do humanities with NO extensions what so ever?

 

[enoilgam]

And what if you do humanities with NO extensions what so ever?

Its still possible.

 

[LoveHateSchool]

99.95 with X subjects is possible.

 

[khfreakau]

99.95 with X subjects is possible.

it's just extremely freaking difficult haha