should I drop maths extension 1 (1 Viewer)

[Eagle Mum]

yea duh but im asking if they can take half a unit of a subject
e.g. they take eng adv, math adv, maths ext1, eng ext1, phys, eng ext 2 which is 9 units but i still have eco left
can they take 1 unit of eco if i performed the worst in that in all my subjects

Yes. They count two units of English plus eight of your best remaining units, and will split a two unit subject to make up the tenth unit. It’s been like this for decades.

 

[emmalin]

Yes. They count two units of English plus eight of your best remaining units, and will split a two unit subject to make up the tenth unit. It’s been like this for decades.

okay thanks

 

[emmalin]

I'm very confused by this question, but I believe, yes you can take 1 unit of eco
But I was under the impression that both "units" of a subject were the same, so is that really a positive?

i mean like they take half a unit of eco that goes towards your atar

 

[Socialism]

but when they split it, does the mark stay the same? cuz if it does then like, what's even rlly the point??

 

[Eagle Mum]

but when they split it, does the mark stay the same? cuz if it does then like, what's even rlly the point??

They essentially add up each student’s ten best units (of scaled marks) to get an aggregate out of 500 and then rank everyone’s aggregate to determine each student’s ATAR. Therefore, student A may be an all rounder and their tenth unit might come from a subject that they scored 90 in, so it contributes 45 to the aggregate, whilst student B might be very strong in several subjects, but weak in one, so their tenth unit might contribute only 40 marks. If they get the same aggregate, then they get the same ATAR, although if you counted the eleventh unit, student A would have a higher total.

 

[Socialism]

They essentially add up each student’s ten best units (of scaled marks) to get an aggregate out of 500 and then rank everyone’s aggregate to determine each student’s ATAR. Therefore, student A may be an all rounder and their tenth unit might come from a subject that they scored 90 in, so it contributes 45 to the aggregate, whilst student B might be very strong in several subjects, but weak in one, so their tenth unit might contribute only 40 marks. If they get the same aggregate, then they get the same ATAR, although if you counted the eleventh unit, student A would have a higher total.

OH IT JUST CLICKED how did i not get this
so its not two 100's its two 50's
so when they split up, say, modern, into two parts, if you scored 70, it'd split into 35 & 35!

but how could that not have a significant detrimental effect??? because it'd become 35 instead of 70?
or is it more like, everything is sorta already split so a 35 is still a 70????
sorry to bother you about this but could you, um, sorta say that last bit again?

 

[Study to success]

OH IT JUST CLICKED how did i not get this
so its not two 100's its two 50's
so when they split up, say, modern, into two parts, if you scored 70, it'd split into 35 & 35!

but how could that not have a significant detrimental effect??? because it'd become 35 instead of 70?
or is it more like, everything is sorta already split so a 35 is still a 70????
sorry to bother you about this but could you, um, sorta say that last bit again?

I think they split both in half and then add them together so it will be out of 100 overall. So for example I scored 70/100 in bio and 60/100 in math then both would be split in half and then altogether it would be 65/100

 

[Eagle Mum]

They either include the mark out of a hundred (eg. 70/100) if including two units of the subject in the ATAR calculation or as a mark of the same percentage of 50 (eg. 35/50) if counting one unit towards the ATAR.