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Just wondering, if you do really well in a low ranking school is it possible to achieve a high atar?
 
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School rank means nothing. It fluctuates year to year and it is calculated after all the HSC results are made.
 
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of course.. I go to a ranked 280+ school, its not super poor, but its not good..
I just aimed to come 1st in every subject I do, because if you come 1st you don't get affected by negative scaling. :)
At the moment I'm doing just that - well 1st in 3 subjects, 2nd and 3rd in the other two.
As long as you rank highly and perform very well in the externals you can achieve whatever you want!
 
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xXnukerrrXx said:
Just wondering, if you do really well in a low ranking school is it possible to achieve a high atar?
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Its possible to achieve any ATAR no matter where you go. Potentially, a person who goes to a school ranked last in the state could get 99.95.
 
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Dylanamali said:
of course.. I go to a ranked 280+ school, its not super poor, but its not good..
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I like how people talk about schools being in the 200's as bad. Oh, how I would dream to be in a school in the 200's. 620's - that's right, form a line people everyone wants to go here.
 
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nae_13 said:
I like how people talk about schools being in the 200's as bad. Oh, how I would dream to be in a school in the 200's. 620's - that's right, form a line people everyone wants to go here.
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Conga line to the rape dungeon.
 
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Dylanamali said:
of course.. I go to a ranked 280+ school, its not super poor, but its not good..
I just aimed to come 1st in every subject I do, because if you come 1st you don't get affected by negative scaling. :)
At the moment I'm doing just that - well 1st in 3 subjects, 2nd and 3rd in the other two.
As long as you rank highly and perform very well in the externals you can achieve whatever you want!
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It's kind of the opposite for me - I'm relying on my cohort to scale me up a bit.
 
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how do you know your school's rank thats in the 620's? I thought they only showed the top 200 schools. Is there a high school rank paper that shows all the schools rank? If so can somebody link me to it?
 
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i heard that if ur classmates to really well then they pull ur mark up but if they do bad then u'll get dragged down :L
 
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My school is ranked 584 and has had high ATAR/UAIs before. There was one person in particular that got 98 to 99 one year.
 
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The ranking of a school from the past is only a guide to how you will go because the ranks will be redone this year based on your cohort's results. Although the top schools don't move around a lot those lower down can move quite a lot from one year to the next.
 
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