atar prediction? very general (2 Viewers)

[luke0410]

beaconite doesnt really know what he/she/it is talking about

 

[Beaconite]

Plenty of people who done well in 4 unit math actually fail first year math subjects. It is more surprising than you might think.

well the guy said its easy for kids who have done 4u....

 

[DefiningTheta]

http://www.science.unsw.edu.au/future-students/mathematics-bridging-course

 

[soloooooo]

well the guy said its easy for kids who have done 4u....

Believe what you want. Send me a message next year telling me how you go.

 

[DefiningTheta]

Since this is on the topic of bridging course, Does the bridging course go quick, will there be a final exam at the end and how hard/easy will it be?

 

[LoveHateSchool]

Eesh guys, people can do well in physics and do general maths...

Low 90s OP.

 

[luke0410]

goodnight

 

[DefiningTheta]

Believe what you want. Send me a message next year telling me how you go.

It also depends on what Maths course you are going to do.

 

[luke0410]

Eesh guys, people can do well in physics and do general maths...

Low 90s OP.

thanks and youre right.

 

[Beaconite]

Believe what you want. Send me a message next year telling me how you go.

aight mate

 

[Beaconite]

It also depends on what Maths course you are going to do.

we are tokin about engineering maths :L

 

[enoilgam]

Plenty of people who done well in 4 unit math actually fail first year math subjects. It is more surprising than you might think.

From what I have heard this is very true. Just because you are good at 3u/4u doesnt necessarily mean you will do well or even pass uni maths. In saying that, a background in maths from the HSC does help.

 

[Riproot]

From what I have heard this is very true. Just because you are good at 3u/4u doesnt necessarily mean you will do well or even pass uni maths. In saying that, a background in maths from the HSC does help.

I disagree.

If you're naturally talented with maths and picking things up then you'll be fine, but if you had to work really hard to do well in MX1/2 and then don't work as hard in Uni you could fail. :/

I didn't work that hard in HSC and did average for MX1 (~90) and terribly for MX2 (~80), and then I did less work in Uni and did the advanced units (1901/2 at USyd) and managed ~70 for both (and I'm shit at maths).

Just don't slack off!

 

[Indoz]

I'd say 91 - 94, assuming your school is ranked in the top 100 this year.

can i ask, how does the ranking affect the atar? so in this case, if the school ranking was around 200, what would the atar be?

 

[enoilgam]

I disagree.

If you're naturally talented with maths and picking things up then you'll be fine, but if you had to work really hard to do well in MX1/2 and then don't work as hard in Uni you could fail. :/

I didn't work that hard in HSC and did average for MX1 (~90) and terribly for MX2 (~80), and then I did less work in Uni and did the advanced units (1901/2 at USyd) and managed ~70 for both (and I'm shit at maths).

Just don't slack off!

I was just going off what I had heard - I havent done uni level maths so I dont really have any first hand knowledge.

can i ask, how does the ranking affect the atar? so in this case, if the school ranking was around 200, what would the atar be?

The ranking doesnt effect the ATAR, but the quality of a persons cohort does which is why a school ranking is needed for an estimate. If the ranking was around 200, I would say 87-91 maybe.

 

[Riproot]

I was just going off what I had heard - I havent done uni level maths so I dont really have any first hand knowledge.

Your first mistake was agreeing with Solooo

But I'll forgive you

If you take me to lunch sometime.

 

[Leffife]

Your first mistake was agreeing with Solooo

But I'll forgive you

If you take me to lunch sometime.

How sweet of you.
Anyhow, you don't really need to do 2U for physics. If you look carefully, most of the math's related things here are just substituting values into the formula. There might be some re-arranging things related, but overall you can still do well without doing anything like 2U and higher.

 

[Lucas_]

95+ for sure

Fuck what everyone else says, people at my school (ranked way below 100) have way worse ranks than that and we get plenty of 90+'s

 

[Coolwashy]

Around 90ish?

"advanced english 5/20ish? "

Only that many people do advanced english in a rank 78 school?...

 

[nifkeh]

Since this is on the topic of bridging course, Does the bridging course go quick, will there be a final exam at the end and how hard/easy will it be?

If you do the the maths UNSW bridging courses there will be a final exam and you need 50% to pass.