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Also, anybody struggling with those epidemiology questions / those that show a map of e.g. Africa and Malaria cases and making us draw conclusions or when they give us a case study :( I dislike those so much

For many science/stem based subjects, you don't really need anybody marking them for you really. Just keep doing them and maybe if you get those 9 marker "evaluate" questions you could ask a friend to mark it for you and get better at it!

i hate those ;( every source is telling me each hormone is responsible for a different function. It's even worse to study anatomy in the library! anybody got notes on female/pregnancy hormones and their functions (alongside placental formation, like the whole 36 week duration of a pregnancy...

as far as I'm aware, its what a raw mark gets pushed to due to how relatively well it does compared to the state + subject difficulty + other factors. Obviously physics will have a lower cut-off raw mark for a band 6 (usually in the 80-85 range cut off) for a band 6, whereas something like math...

Don't NESA supervisors check your paper before signing it AND check the student number is consistent with the blue little slip you sign / table sticker that tells you your number? For math standard, we had our number on the short answer booklet but not the multiple choice question booklet...

it honestly can...the exam was something for sure. 2020 wasn't that hard and alignment pushed an 82 to a 91 (ik it was new syllabus but still). We can only hope.

Ill list some of the previous years 2023 had none (lol) 2022 13 in: math standard 2(x2) music 1 (3x) CAFS math ext 1 math ext 2 arabic continuers (x2) arabic ext Business studies Visual arts 2021 had 11 in: Investigating science (x3) Legal studies Math ext 1 Math ext 2 (x2) Vietnamese...

I go to a school that is in the 400-500 ranking. (Estimating that is) It's also to note that, according to my teachers: * english advanced was roughly the same difficulty as the typical HSC paper * Biology was also the same difficulty * Investigating was also the same difficulty * Math...

Thanks for the clarification!

Oh so Alignment is where they alter the value of a given score so it can be a HSC mark? I am a bit confused about the difference between alignment and scaling though :confused:

Hey everyone, I just wanted to post this to gain an insight into how this works. So obviously, to get a band 6 in a subject you do need a mark of 90-100 (as suggested in the NESA website) However, is this mark scaled or raw? For physics, in 2020 roughly 12.4% of students achieved a band 6...

I applied to UAC for 5 Engineering UTS courses. It says my English Requirments are still pending. For context I was born overseas and starting Australian schooling in Year 3, and I am currently in English Advanced (top half of class, Averaging a low A) Point is, I can speak English. I don't...

So it would be worth putting effort into? I've heard all sorts of things from 'experts' on the topic of HSC scaling and such, some suggested that your HSC marks will only be a reflection of how you did internally (like for example, If i got 7th/30th then If i got 2nd in the HSC exams for my...

So basically to keep it short i did horribly in the math standard trial exam couple days ago and Im very sure my ranking will go from 1st to 3rd/4th (considering the others have not found the exam hard, which im pretty sure everyone did). Because of this I feel like theres no hope for this...

tbh its a whole ass dilemma or whether i should drop or not. Couple of my mates have dropped because of the intense workload. My next assessment result will most likely determine whether im gonna drop or not.

thank you for this advice 😭I relate so much with essays being shredded to atoms. It does suck but the harsher the feedback is, the more effective it is. I sent a draft a day ago and it went well (from a big paragraph, only 2 sentences needed rewording and some grammatical mistakes) I will try...

I'm not an English person. I'm more of STEM, not one who reads, analyses, etc etc. I picked English advanced for the purpose of it scaling higher but at this point I do not really care as much. The entire subject just... its not for me. I feel its useless. I'm hesitant to drop it but I do want...

For people who have achieved an ATAR of 90 and over, what did you do in order to achieve it? Did you have tutoring or did you study endlessly?

I suck at writing essays and It seems like I can't improve no matter how hard I try. I'd like to improve but Idk what resources I have available other than drafting. Is tutoring worth it?

I have been lazy for half the year by not starting early, not even reading the book studied, not sending drafts, etc etc If standard and advanced are similar in effort but different in scaling I might as well stay!