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If you're getting 90s in every unit, you're in the top 1% of your degree.

Also, you need to be wary of is choosing something purely to be a backup, when you have no real passion for it. This is a mistake I almost made when I was in your shoes. For example, I chose Biomedical Engineering. I know that this is probably not the best engineering degree for jobs as it has...

Hahaha, I had the exact exact same crisis as you 2 years ago. I considered literally the exact same degree choices and ended up changing my major literally 50 times before I enrolled. It's good that you're thinking of these things now :) I started off with a double major in Biochemistry and...

Yeah, 100% agree. To OP, uni is not better/worse, just different. Workload wise, it also depends. You can either coast and end up passing your degree, or try very hard, get HDs in everything, internships every summer, involved in societies etc.. The latter would have a much higher workload than...

Most schools don't offer triple science. Chemistry > Biology if you want to do med.

No use. I tried this too and it didn't help whatsoever. What is important is that you maintain consistent effort during the semester, not that you did some prep during the holidays. 1. Get your textbooks when the semester starts (don't forget you can get second hand or an online pdf version)...

Postgrad med. I'm hoping for US/UK, but if that falls through, then USYD or Unimelb. It would be faster to go via the UG pathway but I want to develop other skills and interests first before going into med.

Yep, mb I re-read my post and I came off as very standoffish ahaha, sorry about that. But yeah, med sci for the purposes of postgrad med = bad. You made a good call. I encourage OP to pursue another degree if they intend to enter in postgrad med. Personally I went with engineering.

You can literally self teach yourself the entire curriculum without wasting tens of thousands of dollars on a degree with zero job prospects. If you don't want to self teach, you can hire a tutor - it would be waaay cheaper than paying the uni 1k per course.

Literally anything else is better. You don't need any prereqs to get into postgrad med.

As in you volunteer in a lab. Whether on not you get to do your own project depends on your PI. Typically no, you'd just be assisting with another project.

If you want to go PhD, I recommend USYD. idk about MQU, but USYD has a lot of research opportunities. I got involved in my second sem of first year with very little problems. You will want to get as much experience as possible if you want to do research.

CompSci is better than IT. I don't really know WSU/MQ that well, but I don't imagine them being particularly different in terms of course quality/prestige. The difference in quality will be down to how much YOU take advantage of the resources available. Also don't forget to do a lot of...

Don't do medical science if you want to get into medicine. Med sci has zero employability. If you don't get into med (which is not unlikley, as it is very competitive), then you're screwed and cannot enter the workforce. You'd probably have to do more studies, get more in-debt, and end up...

You will get it the day you get your ATAR.

What's the salary of teachers in public schools?

Holy shit, 96 WAM is insane. I think 85 WAM is converted into 99.50 ATAR, so you should be sweet as that is well above the cutoff for UNSW CompSci. I think they will take into account everything that you submit, and generally prior learning is considered particularly since you've only...

Did you go to SGS? Cuz while vast the majority teachers were amazing, I did have my fair share of awful teachers

idk about Ruse, but at Grammar we only have 3-7 people get .95 each year, so yeah, you still need to be top 3 in most subjects. Funnily enough, I don't think anyone doing 4U/Adv Eng/Chem/Phys got 99.95. I think the highest with that combo was 99.8. Everyone who got 99.95 did a mix of science...

Module 6 in Chemistry is the one that is most calculations heavy. To be quite honest, they aren't too bad once you wrap your head around them. They all follow the same sort of step by step process, so once you've grappled with that and understood it, you will be okay. Module 5 isn't too bad...