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Hi, I'm currently in year 11 and the subjects I have chosen are all in category A. Am I on a disadvantage to those who have category B in the subject selections?

I also wanna add that will I get an ATAR over 90 with ESL and maths extension 1 only?
 
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Hi, I'm currently in year 11 and the subjects I have chosen are all in category A. Am I on a disadvantage to those who have category B in the subject selections?

I also wanna add that will I get an ATAR over 90 with ESL and maths extension 1 only?
not even. but generally category b subjects are either low scaling or dont count toward ATAR. so u are not disadvantage by that.
 

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Hi, I'm currently in year 11 and the subjects I have chosen are all in category A. Am I on a disadvantage to those who have category B in the subject selections?

I also wanna add that will I get an ATAR over 90 with ESL and maths extension 1 only?
not even. but generally category b subjects are either low scaling or dont count toward ATAR. so u are not disadvantage by that.
+1. 90+ is definitely possible with ESL and MX1.
 

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not even. but generally category b subjects are either low scaling or dont count toward ATAR. so u are not disadvantage by that.
To clarify a cat B subject is a VET subject, a cat C subject does not go towards the calculation of an ATAR but is counted.

(coming from someone who is doing cat A, B and C subjects :) )
 

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How can you be disadvantaged when MOST people only do category A subjects.
I'm doing one category B subject which is accounting and it scales just as high as the category A top subjects.
There isn't really a reason to choose Category B subjects unless you are interested in that particular course and wish to study later in life because as stated before a lot of the category B subjects are scaled badly. (accounting is an exception)
 

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To clarify a cat B subject is a VET subject, a cat C subject does not go towards the calculation of an ATAR but is counted.

(coming from someone who is doing cat A, B and C subjects :) )
but isnt only one cat B subject counted for Atar calculation?
 

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