Hi, so I have 11 units, math ext 1 being the extra unit. Everytime I put my marks into an atar calculator with my other subjects as high band 5s, putting my ext 1 mark at 40 changes the mark compared to it being 35, does nesa give me a better rank if I perform better in a harder subject or is it just an error. Sorry if this is hard to understand lol.
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your atar is an aggregate of your best 10 units, so if you perform well in ext 1 and your on 11 units and lets say that visual arts is your lowest 2 unit subject, then only 1 unit of VA will count and the other unit will be made up by ext 1. If ext 1 is your worst performing subject than it is excluded entirely.
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Essentially yes, this is the process known as scaling that everyone talks about. It compensates for the literal fact that it is harder to score raw marks in extension 1 compared to a lot of other subjects, so an 80 in each subject has a different contribution to your atar depending on the scaling of the subject.
alright that makes sense thank you