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I have my half yearlies coming up, panicking like crazy. Im pretty sure I want to do a commerce degree at uni, is it a requirement to have ext 1 or would I be fine on mathematics? I also find ext 1 work pretty intense compared the the rest on my subjects, its takes a lot of time in caparison to the rest and I'm overall just not sure how bad it would affect my ATAR of future uni education if I dropped it.
 

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Commerce doesn't have much math at the start, but later when you do accounting subject, there will be a lot of math ..

DON'T DROP ext 1 ! :)
 

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If MX1 is causing your other subjects to weaken then you should really consider it I guess....

Ultimately, you're probably wanting to maximise your ATAR so yeah.

(MX1's scaling is a benefit but if its harming your other subjects then it cancels out so in the end, it's not really a benefit)
 

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Just do it for the knowledge and don't worry about the mark. If you're worried about uni maths. So don't drop imo
 

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If you are doing 11 units, then don't really focus on maths at all. Just use it as general knowledge, since it wont count after all.
 

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or just turn the table around and smash ext 1 in the trials and hsc lol
 
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assumed knowledge for commerce is 2 unit maths for every uni so u can drop if you want
 

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assumed knowledge for commerce is 2 unit maths for every uni so u can drop if you want
+1

If you find mx1 REALLY time consuming, do drop it

But it does scale quite well, you don't necessarily have to be able to do everything to get a decent scaled mark
 

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If MX1 is causing your other subjects to weaken then you should really consider it I guess....

Ultimately, you're probably wanting to maximise your ATAR so yeah.

(MX1's scaling is a benefit but if its harming your other subjects then it cancels out so in the end, it's not really a benefit)
dat canceling out.
 

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