nice eng and senior science marks.
96 in snr science = state rank?
~ and that's not necessarily true.. it really depends what your aiming for. If your aiming for 98/99+ you don't really want to screw up any assessment tasks.. if your goal is a 95 and below, you have that room. Getting a high 98/99 ATAR is much, much harder then getting a mid 95, as that's when each of your units has to be of a high level (b6).
Haha no unfortunately, didn't get a state rank for Senior Science. I was actually really surprised with my results all up...my thought was that I "should be able to get a 74 ATAR" so I could get into my first preference. Thats because I always under-estimate myself, and always over-estimate exams/assessments though =P
And yeah you're right in that sense; if you're aiming for an ATAR of say 97-98+, you really dont want to stuff up your assessments. You'd probably have a bit of wriggle-room with one or two assessments, especially if they're only low-weighing ones.
And just as a pointer, if you do incredibly bad [by whatever your standards are], dont just take your mark into consideration when you're beating yourself up "screwing up your HSC"
...I did that for Modern History when I got 69% in the half yearlies...considering 3/4 of the year actually FAILED this exam, with the highest being 85% and the second highest being something 78-ish %, 69% wasnt actually THAT bad of a mark at all in the big picture.