AaronForSelective
French will always scale up by roughly 10. If you get a 20, it will go up to 30, a 25 will give you 36, etc, according to last year's scaling report. I chose French in Year 12, partly because of this, but also because it was something I enjoyed, and was good at, though I did Year 12 in 2020, where the study design was changed, and I ultimately gave up on school at the end. I still enjoyed this subject and Drama for the chance to be creative. If I wanted to say or do something that makes the assessors laugh, I can, which is why I liked it so much. I had a chance to broaden my horizons, gain new perspectives of the world, and my own language too. My aggregate study score was 100 across all the subjects, if I chose some subject that didn't scale at all instead of French, my combined study score might have been in the 90s, giving me an ATAR in the high 40s, instead of low 50s. Even if you don't get a great ATAR, the study score bonus gives you a little boost. And it didn't matter in the end, because my English score of 18 was too low to use at any university, so I waited two years until my ATAR was obsolete, then I went to uni
