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You definitely will for standard! Why did you even do standard? It's pretty clear you should be in advanced instead.

Really? Sorry, my bad. I think I sourced that from SMH so it was my dumb fault for believing anything in that paper.

Yeah, 3U is crazy with how tight all the ranks are. Everyone in the state cohort tends to do so well that missing one mark on a silly mistake can take you out of contention for top 5. Whereas a little mistake in a modern essay isn't going to be the end of the world. Good luck, I'm sure that this...

I don't think having an SR aim is conceited at all, I just thought people might not want to say that they did if they thought others would see it that way. I have an ATAR aim of 98+ in my sig, I can't accuse others of being conceited haha. I really hope you get it, you seem to work so hard and...

Are any of you legitimately hoping for state rank in a subject? No judgement about being conceited or anything if you say yes, I'm just curious :)

Absolutely. I think we'll either get barriers or identity. As far as I'm aware they're the last two that haven't been included in the AOS HSC paper yet.

If I get 98+ in one subject I may choke.

I'm making notes and finding related texts, but yeah I definitely won't be hand writing much.

When people say things like that I 'stole science' I struggle to even be offended because they just sound so childish it's almost funny. It just makes it really hard when I don't do as well as I want to, because everyone else enjoys my failure very much which isn't a pleasant state of affairs haha

Wow, I've just been looking at the updated raw mark database. No one on it has ever scored a raw 90 or above in chem, that's crazy. The papers must be so harshly marked.

Stupid English markers, what's more authentic than real life? Honestly some of my teachers have just said the stupidest things. Like when I say that 2U English is my worst subject EVERYONE says 'oh really, I thought that would have been chemistry'. Which is innocent but just an insensitive...

You should have done advanced. But anyway, it is very unlikely that you will get a band six. From memory I think three standard students in the state did last year, and that's about average. You'd need to be looking at a mark of 100+ out of 105 to be in contention for a band six in standard English.

Honestly, when I am around other HSC students I feel like some kind of Buddhist monk casually floating in this cloud of utter, Nirvana-esque calm while everyone else is caught up in the petty vanity of study haha

Yeah, but feel free to write your paper one creative on my struggles through two years of chem against every other student and the vast majority of teachers being highly hostile to me doing a science instead of topping off my straight humanities subject set with eco.

I always feel like I really don't belong (soz guys) in the class/subject. I don't do maths, I don't do physics, and people have always pushed me toward humanities over science because they've decided what I am and am not allowed to be good at. So I always feel pretty pathetically desperate to...

I always write really weird creatives, I didn't realise that markers actually liked that (I was going to take a more conventional, serious route in the HSC but might reconsider that now, thanks!)

Eh, I go all right. I'd probably be good if I put in effort or showed up to class, but I still don't think I'd be some kind of amazing SR student.

My goal =/= my ATAR haha, and I'm only THIS relaxed about English. I'm a little more normal about the rest of my subjects, and I absolutely freak out about chem (see: SSH vomited on her chem trial paper story).

My friends call me 'economically lazy'; minimum effort for maximum result.

My school probably doesn't mark according to HSC standards. It was about a girl who doesn't feel like she belongs because she doesn't look very feminine. Then at the end the girl turns out to be a transgender man haha