ATAR Estimate please? :) - don't know if I should drop to 10 units? (1 Viewer)

[swifty13]

School rank is about 40

Advanced English - 10/87
Extension English - 12/30
Biology - 5/42
Studies of Religion 1 - 4/36
Economics - 3/16
Business Studies - 4/34
Mathematics - not entirely sure of rank - around 30/45.

I am thinking of dropping maths but I'm not sure if dropping to 10 units is the best idea considering I am not doing great for Extension English. In saying that, we've already done 45% of the internal assessments for maths and only 15% of the assessments for English. If anyone could help that'd be great



EDIT - I think the main problem is I want to do Commerce at uni that would require maths but considering I am doing so poorly I should just do a bridging course once school finishes..

 

[OzKo]

I'm thinking some where around 95.5-96.5.

 

[theycallmebob]

if your struggling with the workload you should drop maths before it gets too stressful

 

[Dylanamali]

~95 , drop maths IMO..

 

[someth1ng]

Maths seems to be the weak spot - not English.

 

[RealiseNothing]

~96 imo.

 

[such_such]

It says you SHOULD do the required subjects, not that you MUST do them. I think you'll learn all the basics again anyway. So yeah, drop maths before it's too late if you want your desired ATAR.

 

[OzKo]

Can you further elaborate on why your performance in Maths isn't up to par when comparing it to your other subjects?

 

[swifty13]

Can you further elaborate on why your performance in Maths isn't up to par when comparing it to your other subjects?

I guess it just eats up a lot of my time - I will sit there and study for an hour and maybe do like five questions, where as when I study an hour for other subjects I get a lot more done. I'm just not good at it and I know that if I invested a lot of time in it that perhaps I could improve, but I don't really feel like I have enough time to improve. I didn't have a tutor for year 11 and I didn't do that well for maths in year 11 (around 70% in most of my marks, ranking was basically average) so I decided to get a tutor for year 12 but I think it was kind of too late. I don't want to drop to 10 units because it is so risky but at the same time I feel like I might have to...

 

[scarvesss]

im on 10 units and tbh it is way less stressful then when i had 12. dont be scared, you get way more time to focus on everything else and its just way better

 

[swifty13]

Thanks for all your help guys. I am most likely to drop maths but I am scared that one day for Extension English they might throw a curve ball at me and I'll have no idea how to answer the question...

 

[Lolly_Polly]

I'm doing 10 units, I find it's so much better considering the number of free periods and more time to study at home! I recommend you to drop Maths

 

[Shadowdude]

Thanks for all your help guys. I am most likely to drop maths but I am scared that one day for Extension English they might throw a curve ball at me and I'll have no idea how to answer the question...

How so? Extension 1 English is very set in it's format. One essay, one creative.

Curve balls you'd expect more in Advanced.

 

[swifty13]

How so? Extension 1 English is very set in it's format. One essay, one creative.

Curve balls you'd expect more in Advanced.

I saw a question in the 2009 paper I think, which asked you to change the setting of your story and that completely freaked me out. Are you meaning a curve ball in advance mainly because they could ask us to write like an article/speech etc? I guess that would be a concern which is why I thought I could keep maths just to feel more secure with 12 units but considering I am doing so poorly the maths probably wouldn't be able to save me if I burnt out in one of my other units anyway

 

[Shadowdude]

I saw a question in the 2009 paper I think, which asked you to change the setting of your story and that completely freaked me out. Are you meaning a curve ball in advance mainly because they could ask us to write like an article/speech etc? I guess that would be a concern which is why I thought I could keep maths just to feel more secure with 12 units but considering I am doing so poorly the maths probably wouldn't be able to save me if I burnt out in one of my other units anyway

Yes - I think you should be more worried about them specifying a weird text type in Advanced, than in Extension.

 

[swifty13]

shadow dude I just realised ur doing a B Commerce which I might be interested in doing, obviously your doing advanced mathematics in ur B science course but I was wondering is there a lot of intense maths in B commerce?