title. did super mid in my trials because of a family emergency but i plan to study hard for the HSC, can a great HSC mark save a bad trials mark? thank you for reading
can you still get a good atar if you flop at trials?
swampison You might find this article interesting. 
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Joseph41 ... that didn't answer my question? that article is a general panacea for students who failed trials and i was looking for a clear answer on whether an atrocious trials mark can drastically impact good performance in the hsc
The article was somewhat pertinent, even if it didn't encompass everything you were looking for.
Your question on 'whether an atrocious trials mark can drastically impact good performance in the hsc' depends on a lot of unknowns that you haven't supplied (included but not limited to school ranking, difficulty of the exam in question, your rank within your cohort, etc.) as well as the random factors that you have been through (hope everything's okay now, or at least as okay as it can be).
The reason this question can't be answered accurately is because we don't know anything else about the aforementioned factors. That alone makes the article a good potential fix-all because at best we can only provide generic information. ie. the advice one might provide to a student in a high-performing school who flunked only the trial (but did well on other assessments) is vastly different to that of a student who has completely dissociated in a worse performing school. We also can't define 'save' -- saving a mark means different levels of achievement for different people.
If your ranking is fine and your classmates are smart and/or are willing to work hard, your internal mark can be salvaged, it's possible also in other circumstances but it's just less likely, because a downturn in one of those factors just naturally leads to a poorer mark; there's not much anyone can do about that. The good news is you can get up to 50% of your mark on your own. Doing well here gets you further towards whatever you wanted to do, and it's completely under your control. I would suggest focusing on that instead.