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[DADGER]

Hi all, I've just been clinically diagnosed with narcolepsy this week, which for people who don't know is a very rare condition, my specialist has written on my EAS application through UAC that it has impacted on my results "extremely", which is the highest box you can tick on the forms. Anyway, to get to the point, I have done really badly in my internal marks, particularly maths (if I happened to fall asleep during a test there's nothing I could have done, at the time I just thought I was ridiculously exhausted but that's been disproved, whereas assignments not so much), I'm currently last in my cohort for maths. By contrast I was top in year 10. I now know that these marks are due to my condition, onset of narcolepsy is typically late teens/early 20's and it just so happened to me to be at the start of year 11. I am now on medication that will manage it for life and it's incredible how well it's working BUT I don't understand how it will affect my ATAR? If I go extremely well in my exams, like come 1st in my cohort, how does UAC determine my ATAR?? Are my internal assessment marks still included? Even though they're not really a fair assessment of my ability?
I've tried looking up similar cases but I can't seem to find any, teachers have conflicting ideas about what I should do, please help :/

 

[meggles_]

Hi all, I've just been clinically diagnosed with narcolepsy this week, which for people who don't know is a very rare condition, my specialist has written on my EAS application through UAC that it has impacted on my results "extremely", which is the highest box you can tick on the forms. Anyway, to get to the point, I have done really badly in my internal marks, particularly maths (if I happened to fall asleep during a test there's nothing I could have done, at the time I just thought I was ridiculously exhausted but that's been disproved, whereas assignments not so much), I'm currently last in my cohort for maths. By contrast I was top in year 10. I now know that these marks are due to my condition, onset of narcolepsy is typically late teens/early 20's and it just so happened to me to be at the start of year 11. I am now on medication that will manage it for life and it's incredible how well it's working BUT I don't understand how it will affect my ATAR? If I go extremely well in my exams, like come 1st in my cohort, how does UAC determine my ATAR?? Are my internal assessment marks still included? Even though they're not really a fair assessment of my ability?
I've tried looking up similar cases but I can't seem to find any, teachers have conflicting ideas about what I should do, please help :/

Just do the best that you can and study hard - it's redundant and regressive to think about marks and ATAR at this point ; I think that's pretty much the only option you can take
Also year 10 performance is not a indicator of how well you go in year 11 or year 12
Your medical condition will give you an advantage so depending on how high of an ATAR you need for your course, you should be able to get in with the EAS scheme
Yes internal assessment marks would be counted, but scaled accordingly to reflect your ability - ask your school principal or year adviser for a break down on how that works

 

[DADGER]

I'm not responding to that aha, does anyone know how the whole ATAR calculation will work please?

 

[DADGER]

Cheers, thanks for your help