Low bands in ADV english or High Bands in Std english? (1 Viewer)

[samhe888]

Hello, i just want to ask, can i get 98 atar with std english?

Right now im struggling with Adv english, class rank like 18/26 and im in prelim. Should i keep ADV or Std, i dont know myself. Plz help ;/

 

[D94]

You can get an ATAR of 98 with any combination of subjects.

If you are struggling in Advanced, changing to Standard won't make a difference unless you address what you are struggling with because they are pretty much the same subject where the only material difference in the difficulty of the texts.

However, I doubt there are many students with an ATAR of 98+ who also did Standard.

 

[samhe888]

basically im stuggling with analysing texts and techniques.

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Does std english scales down your rank ? and is it hard to get a band 6 in std? Even, if i can get a band 6 in std, would it be better to do Adv?

 

[Zoinked]

If you could get band 6 in standard, you most likely would have gotten a higher mark in advanced. Advanced and standard scale exactly the same. Its just one is harder so they give u a higher nominal mark (advanced) for the same exam marks. Standard has easier to understand texts and easier questions but because of this it is harder to get a higher band.

 

[samhe888]

Ah i see thanks!

 

[BLIT2014]

Yeah stick with Advanced. Dropping down doesn't guarantee that you'll get top in Standard, and you may well end up doing worse.

 

[Destan]

I wouldn't recommend dropping Advanced, instead, I would insist that you continue advanced; no point in dropping it (like BLIT2014 said; "it doesn't guarantee that you'll get top marks in Standard").