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ranks needed for 99.7+ and current atar estimate? (1 Viewer)

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Hey everyone, I want to get into combined law @ usyd next year (but I might end up going to unsw...? not sure) ~ Since the standard gets higher every year, it'd probably be safer to get like 99.8, but I don't know if I can :/ I haven't been doing that great this year in some subjects...

Advice on ranks needed for 99.7-99.8, and the ATAR you'd estimate currently, please?

tl;dr? just look at the overall estimated ranks

Top mark included where it isn't full marks.

School rank: consistently 18-20

1st assessments (mark, rank, % worth)
English Adv: mark 24/25, rank 5/~200, 20%
English Ext: mark 23/25, rank 23/73, 20% (wtf at rank... but it was a partner oral, so easily improvable :p)
English Ext 2: mark 18/25, rank 20/25 (*), 10%
Maths 2u: mark 34/36, rank 10/~110, 20%
Maths 3u: mark 29/30, rank 8/72 :mad3:, 20%
Economics: mark 42.5/50, rank 8/25, 20% (top mark = 48.5/50)
Geography: mark 20/20, rank 1/~40, 20% (8 other people got full marks)
Latin 2u: mark 38/45, rank 6/7, 15% (lol)
Latin 3u: mark 37.75/40, rank 6/7 :mad3:, 20% (everyone ranged from 37-39, so easily improvable)

* didn't give us ranks but probably something like 20/25. It was only worth 10 out of 50 so I figured I'd do my next assessment anyway and hope for the best... getting back marks this or next week

2nd assessments (mark, rank, % worth)
English Adv: mark 14/15, rank 10/~200, 15%
Maths 2u: mark 40/44, rank 19/102, 20% :mad3:
Maths 3u: mark 38/38, rank 1/71, 20% (1 other person got full marks)
Economics: 17.5/20, rank ~10/25 (*), 20%
Latin 2u: mark 27.5/40, rank 6/7, 20% (top mark = 36.5/40)

* she hasn't calculated our ranks yet, but that's my estimate... ? Could be worse, I don't know.

Overall estimated rank
Geography: Top 3 out of ~40
English Adv: Top 5-10 out of ~200
EE1: :confused2: out of ~70
EE2: :confused2: out of ~25
Maths 2u: Top 15 out of 102
Maths 3u: Top 3 out of 71
Economics: Top 10 out of 25
Latin 2u/3u: 5/6 out of 7 :haha:

I can't say anything about EE1/EE2 but I hope to rank similarly as advanced in ext, and I might drop EE2 depending on how my marks are on the most recent assessment... And I know I've been doing crap in Latin but I'm too scared to drop 3 units as well as EE2 maybe (down to 10), plus I'm doing alright in ext. since I enjoy it more :) And seriously I'm scared about screwing Eco even more in the future, I get A+ for an essay one week then B the next, it's really temperamental :S ugh. And our Latin class is really strong (all 7 top 10% of cohort) so I'm not worried about getting a crap final internal mark as long as I'm not last lol. I can probably improve 1-2 ranks there.

Also, school stat if it helps?: 2010, Top 10% (cohort ~230) got 99+

Lol sorry this post is so long and detailed, just wanted to get a more accurate estimate :haha:
 

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You're probably on about 99

idk, there's so much info to take in lol
 

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lolol sry for length

and ughh really? like about 20+ ppl get 99+ every year so I was hoping for higher ): i'm on 14u so idk, just ignore my worst 4u? lol

btw clarification: i said top 3 for geo cos we've only had 1 assessment, and there's this other girl who does REALLY well in geo as well so... yeah. i'm hoping for top rank but rank 3 is probably worst case scenario lol.
 

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okay ~

what do you think my rank for eco and ext 1 eng should be (lowest) to get there? also if my rank ends up being like 10/25 for ext 2 eng overall do you think I should just drop? not sure how well it scales...

edit: doing 14u lol ... i did 16 last year though, 2x philosophy P: i'm super indecisive + seem to have a randomly bad mark every now and then, so i'm too scared to drop anything right now... I mean I could potentially do crap in eco OR latin, and I'm not liking romanticism for ee1 (but I've always done well in eng?) so... idk yet.
 
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okay ~

what do you think my rank for eco and ext 1 eng should be (lowest) to get there? also if my rank ends up being like 10/25 for ext 2 eng overall do you think I should just drop? not sure how well it scales...

edit: doing 14u lol ... i did 16 last year though, 2x philosophy P: i'm super indecisive + seem to have a randomly bad mark every now and then, so i'm too scared to drop anything right now... I mean I could potentially do crap in eco OR latin, and I'm not liking romanticism for ee1 (but I've always done well in eng?) so... idk yet.
top 3

It may sound harsh but get top 3 in everything and you'll get it
 

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top 3

It may sound harsh but get top 3 in everything and you'll get it
to rephrase

If you get top 3, you will get it without worries, however its always best to aim there.

I can see you getting it with top 7 in everything if you have a good corhot
 

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lol slyhunter. & ty j-uhrig

Guess I have to study harder fml... ~ thank god we haven't had half of our 2nd assessments yet lol.
 

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why are you doing so well in 3unit if you dont do 4 unit. you should be concentrating on your 2 unit maths.
 

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thanks for input guys


& yeah i did so many stupid mistakes in 2u ugh :/ i'm already doing 14u, 4u maths is too much work lol ._. i did half a year in y11 to try it out and idgi lol. hate maths :angryfire:

the reason I'm doing well in 3u is probably because that means our class focuses on 3u, + i go like 5 hrs maths coaching/tutoring (otherwise i'd do no work) = all 3u lol. if i did 4u i'd probably fk 3u and avg 4u? but yeah I should practice more 2u then...

plus I hate the 4u classes and teachers, ugh. could never deal with that every day + morning/afternoon classes :/
 

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Why are you doing 14 units? I reckon you should drop one or two and bring up other ranks. Your workload would be INSANE! Doing 13/12 units still provides you plenty of security.

At the moment, I reckon you will get around 99.
 

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Yeah consider dropping something and working hard into your remaining units
 

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