I currently do
- Math Methods
-General English
-Physics
-Chemistry
-Biology
-Modern History
What scores would i need to get to get a high ATAR.
What would marks would i need to get to get a 95+ ATAR
It's quite difficult to say as it changes every year slightly. But my best prediction would be you need to get a minimum of 85 for each subject to get above 95+. For ATAR 99+, you would need to definitely keep it minimum 95+ for each subject because modern history and biology both scale down slightly (but nothing too drastic).
Hope that helps!
- PP
PhytoPlankton should i keep biology? I really like it but i am scared of scaling down.
Good question! To be honest, if you really like biology, you should probably keep it because that means you can do well in it. However, I won't sugarcoat it and I'll say that my ATAR ended up being tanked by biology despite doing well (because I didn't do well enough in English to compensate). The other question you should ask yourself is if I didn't do biology, what would be the subject I would do? Would it be something I enjoy? Does it scale more? Is it useful for me? And most importantly, is it okay to take that subject even though I missed year 11.
So it would be difficult for me to give you an answer because it all depends on your circumstances like what career are you looking for, what ATAR, how comfortable are you with the maths, sciences, English, humanities etc. but hopefully, the above gave a bit of insight.
As always, let me know if you have any other questions!
- PP
PhytoPlankton i am currently in grade 11, i cannot think of any other subject to do, as i am not interested in anything else 
. I need a 97 for optometry.
That's okay! Honestly, then you should probably stay with biology then! If anything, I would recommend replacing modern history out so I think biology should stay since you like bio quite a lot and you aren't sure of another subject that would pique your interest. I did almost the same set of subjects but instead of modern history, I did specialist maths which scaled well which I guess compensated the biology (then again physics and chemistry helped quite a bit too). So I guess what I'm trying to say is that you should keep biology but if anything, I would be more worried about modern history rather than bio. So let me know what you think!
Hope that helps.
- PP
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PhytoPlankton update.. im switching into spec.
i mean if modern isnt my top 5 ill be good
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Oh wow that's great you made that switch if you're happy with taking out bio overall! Definitely specialist maths has a much higher scaling and hopefully, that will put it in the top 5.
Let me know if you have any more questions!
- PP
PhytoPlankton sorry to bother, but do u have any tips for balancing subjects. I feel like i am no good at that, bc i tend to only focus on one hard subject like spec, leaving everything else and getting an A in spec and everything is like a B.