Standard English or Advanced English? (1 Viewer)

[esther609]

Hello, I'm currently in year 10.

I had to pick my subjects for year 11 (next year) and my English teacher told the class to pick Advanced English if you get more than 65ish in your final English report.
I usually get in the 60s for my exams but get in the 70s in my report (included assignments and stuff)
I picked Standard English but not sure if I should change to Advanced English.

Also does Advanced English scale well than Standard English?

Please recommend me what I should do
(FYI. I'm not a huge fan of English)

 

[Drifting95]

Advanced.

Even though i went fairly well for standard (87 which is top 5% of the state) i'd still choose advanced if i had the choice again, my atar would be higher.

 

[obliviousninja]

adv

 

[Crisium]

I suggest that you give Advanced a go because

1) Yes it does scale more than standard

2) You can always drop down to standard if you're struggling with it

 

[BLIT2014]

Advanced
1) It aligns better
2) You can always drop to Standard

 

[turnerloos]

Advanced all day erry day

 

[lilcutetricker]

At my school people are kind of considered less intelligent (unless they are going to do 4u maths or whatever) but its totally illogical since the only module that differs is Shakespeare, so I'd go with advance if i were you. and listen to Drifting, he was the guy who your teachers told you about 'any subject can get you any atar'. If he says do advance, to advance..

 

[Ununoctium]

Advanced. Advanced. Advanced.

 

[astroman]

advanced and never drop it no matter what

 

[faisalabdul16]

Advanced only scales slightly more than standard, not by a huge amount. Its much easier to get a band 5 or higher in advanced than standard. And you can always drop to standard in year 12 if you're struggling, but do advanced.

 

[obliviousninja]

Advanced only scales slightly more than standard, not by a huge amount. Do advanced, its much easier to get a band 5 or higher, than in standard because of the aligning. And you can always drop to standard in year 12 if you're struggling, but do advanced.

Not sure if srs.

 

[faisalabdul16]

Not sure if srs.

You replied while i was editing my comment haha what i meant was that because of the aligning process, it is much easier to get a band 5 or higher in advanced than in standard. for example last year raw mark of 68/105 in advanced was an 81 HSC mark, whereas standard, the raw mark was much higher

 

[Fizzy_Cyst]

Advanced only scales slightly more than standard, not by a huge amount. Its much easier to get a band 5 or higher in advanced than standard. And you can always drop to standard in year 12 if you're struggling, but do advanced.

Advanced and Standard SCALE the same.

They ALIGN much differently!

 

[strawberrye]

I would suggest you pick Advanced but you need to identify why you are getting your current marks to target areas for improving your marks-because regardless of what stream of English you pick, you need to work hard to improve your mark

 

[astroman]

Advanced and Standard SCALE the same.

They ALIGN much differently!

what is alligning

 

[enoilgam]

Definitely go for advanced, standard aligns horribly (5% get above 80 compared to like 40% or 50% for advanced) and the difference in difficulty is marginal.

 

[senorceepa]

Advanced. If you think you're gonna get a band 6 in standard, you're dreaming (the kids who get band 6's are the one's who shouldn't even be in standard).

 

[BLIT2014]

what is alligning

Basically proportion of cohorts getting band 6s,4s etc