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!
Hey @Dr. Jess 
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Firstly, thank you for sharing this — honestly, it takes courage to be real about how you're feeling, and I promise you that this is the right place to talk about it. Don't worry at all - so many of us are going through or have gone through the same thing so you’re definitely not alone.
And I do agree that year 11 specifically can absolutely feel overwhelming because the jump from Year 10 is real and its really when the pressure starts building, and it feels like ATAR is already here in year 11. But here’s the truth: you don’t need to have everything perfect right now in year 11 - its supposed to be your trial year in a way to figure out what works best for you. What matters is how you grow, how you bounce back, and how you learn from the tough moments like this. So the biggest advice I can give you is this:
So anyways, hope that helps! Let me know if you have any other questions
Hey @sarah99,
Sorry if it's too late but to answer that I'll go through the whole working out. So to summarise the question, it's solving the equation 𝑦 = 2 sin(𝑥)−1 for 𝑥 where 𝑦 = 0, over the domain 0≤𝑥≤3𝜋.
2sin(𝑥)−1=0
sin(𝑥)=1/2
𝑥=𝜋/6 (which is correct with your reference angle you calculated too)
So from there, you need to first draw out or see what x values equal to 𝜋/6 from 0 to 2𝜋 first. So obviously, that would be 𝑥=𝜋/6 in the first quadrant and then 𝑥=5𝜋/6 in the second quadrant (remember, these are quadrants where sin is positive). The other two quadrants in 0 to 2𝜋 don't have values for x since they will be negative.
Now extending this to 3𝜋, you see that you are essentially extending to 180 degrees (or 𝜋). So here you get another two solutions that are in the first and second quadrant as well which will be essentially 2𝜋 plus the first two solutions we got so that will be 𝑥=2𝜋+𝜋/6=13𝜋/6 and 𝑥=2𝜋+5𝜋/6=17𝜋/6.
So yeah all your solutions for 𝑥 will be 𝜋/6, 5𝜋/6, 13𝜋/6 and 17𝜋/6. Since there are two sets of quadrant 1 and 2 from 0 to 3𝜋.
Anyways, hope that helps and let me know if you have any more questions!
Hey @dollekya!
It’s great to hear you’re interested in dermatology and it’s awesome to see you thinking ahead.
So, the subject prerequisites are definitely important for JCU. Not having Methods could put you out of the running there, as they have pretty strict requirements on that. A bridging course could help cover it if JCU is your top choice. I’d definitely suggest reaching out to JCU about the Methods requirement as soon as possible.
But honestly, the bigger concern I would have is your ATAR and UCAT with your subject selection. These are really what can make or break your application for med school. The competition is high, so a strong ATAR and UCAT score will be critical, probably even more than the exact subjects you've chosen, especially for places like UQ, which is a bit more flexible with prerequisites. To be completely honest with you, my worry is that even if you do quite well in those subjects, I am not entirely sure if your ATAR will be sufficient for entry because they are generally lower scaling which means you either have to do exceptionally well in the UCAT for UQ or try and get the methods prereq for JCU and have some exceptional leadership/service experience etc.
I don't want to sugarcoat as it's not useful for someone like you that wants to get into med but medicine entry is the most difficult aspect of medicine overall haha. So, assuming you are going into grade 12 next year, I would definitely recommend contacting your school first (and ASAP) to see if you can pick up any subjects (especially methods). Of course, I don't have much background with your situation so sorry for the limited advice but let me know if you have any more questions!
Hope this helps—good luck!
lia518
Hey Lia,
I completely understand your concerns about catching up and aiming for a high ATAR. First off, it's great to see that you are putting in significant effort this year! It’s never too late to improve, especially since you have identified the subjects you want to focus on. And you definitely can get get an ATAR above 90 if you work hard and smart.
I did QCE system in 2021 and FinFin-3rdYearUni is exactly right. What you did in year 11 (unit 1/2) has no impact on your ATAR; it is only unit 3 and 4. I would definitely consider creating a structured study plan that maximises your study hours while ensuring you don’t burn out. Remember, it’s about making steady progress and consistency!
Lastly, I would maybe even consider a tutor for some of your subjects as it definitely is worth investing in your grade 12 studies and if you get a scholarship, it'll definitely pay off!
Best of luck, and remember to believe in yourself!
No worries at all! So in 2021, interview offers were based on a predicted ATAR (this would be predicted yourself and then signed off by a deputy or principal at your school) and written application (with reference letters). So the predicted ATAR was just general thresholds (so in my case, it was 99+). I know quite a few people who just ticked the 99+ box on the predicted ATAR form, got it signed by the deputy principal and only ended up with a ATAR 96 for example and that's what JCU based the interview offer on. So, I think a lot of the weight was on the written application. However, I believe since last year they have changed the JCU written application to an "academic history" or similar: "JCU will consider your entire academic history within your application, with the highest weighting given to your most recent studies." For JCU intake of medicine 2025, "medicine applicants do not submit written statements OR letters of support at any point during the application, interview or selection process."
Hope that helps clarify that but to answer your question and for context, I received an interview offer based on my 99+ predicted ATAR and written application but am unsure as to whether I received a medical offer as I received a higher preference. I ended up with a 99.80 ATAR but as mentioned above, my real ATAR is only considered for the medicine offer; not the interview offer.
Sorry if I repeated myself a few times but hope this clears up any confusion up and more than happy to help if you have any more questions!
Hope it helps!
So interventional writing is you just intervening/pushing a part of your writing into the plot somewhere.
Yeah, so generally when you do interventions, you have to make sure the start and the end will match up to wherever the plot you interject your writing into. Sometimes what students will do is just make the first sentence of their writing the last sentence of the actual book and then their last sentence is a line in the actual book too. I think this is a good way to do it because it will make sure you don't go down a different storyline or tangent in your writing and you also have to ensure that you don't give any important details prematurely of the plot in the book too. I think it's just something you have to keep in mind while writing.
Hope this helps!
Yeah that's a good idea. So there are multiple ways to ensure a solid connection to the parent and your interventional approach is one of the ways for sure. I guess the only other way is to adopt the tone and writing style of the movie The Dry. Obviously since it isn't a text-based media, when I say "writing style", I mean how the directors have scripted the dialogue between characters and how the background sounds (diegetic and non-diegetic) play into the overall tone and message of the movie. So, for example and from a brief scan of The Dry, you could maintain the similar rural Australian town with the same oppressive atmosphere and tension. The recurring themes of drought, isolation, etc. could be central.
So in summary, if you're worried, the recommendation would probably be doing an interventional writing which is what you're doing. So in doing this, I've seen people write a story that focuses into the backstory of a secondary character or expand on a certain event that was only hinted or foreshadowed at in the movie.
Anyways, hope it helps!
VectorMusic
Hey VectorMusic,
It might be difficult to find a creative writing assessment for a specific movie/film but I thought this website might help in having an example: https://freeqcenotes.com/english/. Even if that doesn't help, hopefully it helps in your other subjects haha.
Hope it helps.
Hey keziah,
I haven't been here in a while, so just to re-introduce myself: I'm @PhytoPlanktonkton, and I graduated in 2021 QCE.
Subject changes are usually very tough decisions to make. If you enjoy maths and are somewhat good at it, I would recommend specialist maths. It scales very high (good for your ATAR), gives you adjustment factors to certain unis and degrees and helps with some prerequisites to some degrees too.
However, if you are proven to get exceptional grades in psych without much work, it obviously can be considered your "chill subject" (a subject you can pretty much ace without much work). I would go down this path if you have another five subjects that can back you up just in case because if psych goes down then that will pull you down a lot if you don't have a backup.
This is what I would recommend: take a look at the QCAA syllabuses (unit 1-4) for both psychology and specialist maths. If you find both of them interesting and you think you can exceed somewhat in both then specialist maths is definitely the way to go. Also, check the scaling report of last year too - it will give you an update on the relative scaling of each subject.
Anyways, that's what I think but let me know if you have any other questions.
Hope it helps.
Oh I haven't heard that as a task to do in the assignment. I imagine you could do it with Lefkovitch matrices but don't quote me. Specifically, my assignment was on predicting future sports match results based on past matches for betting so I didn't employ Lefkovitch matrices at all. That's probably a good question for any sources you find. Sorry I can't help you more than that on it.
Hey picturemeinthetrees,
I graduated from the QCE system in 2021 and I have tutored multiple students for specialist maths.
Your teacher wants you to essentially create the first model with Leslie matrices and then identify what assumptions you made. Because making many assumptions are not the best, they want you to create a new model by rectifying some of the assumptions you made for the first model. The second model (the "refined" model) should, theoretically, have better prediction values and also incorporate 1 or 2 or 3 of the assumptions that you would have made in the first model.
The second model could be anything but better to relate it to vectors or matrices so do some research online and some mathematical procedures should come up. You could use eigenvalues but just to help you, one of the more common methods is using Lefkovitch matrices - there should be research and sources on that to help you get your head around it. That should be sufficient for your second (or refined) model.
Hope that helps.
Hey Zee22,
Sorry for the delay in the response but I'm glad I could be of help, and I'm more than happy to share some study tips with you to enhance your understanding in Methods. Here are some additional tips that might benefit you:
Regarding the specific topics in Methods, I would say focus on the second derivative and stats and not as much on trig. Give them the attention they deserve but remember to have a solid grasp of all the essential concepts in the syllabus.
Finally, I can't emphasize enough the importance of meditation. It can improve focus, reduce stress, and enhance cognitive abilities. Find some time every day to meditate and clear your mind—it will likely have positive effects on your overall well-being and academic performance.
I wish you the best of luck in your exams! Feel free to ask any more questions!
I think it depends on what degree you like better and what degree you could imagine yourself with if in the case, you do not get into medicine. Most people I know do biomed and then do GAMSAT but you can certainly do health science as long as you meet the subject prerequisites of medicine. These questions are best if you straight up call UQ or whatever other uni and ask them directly so you have the full reassurance of your plan.
It's not intelligence that helps you go far in UCAT. Of course it helps, but UCAT is a skill-based exam so as long as you practise and improve your skills, you can do well. And certainly now in Grade 11, you have more than enough time to work hard and improve your skillset for the UCAT.
And yeah, I am doing med in QLD but I am still doing my undergraduate degree right now but I have provisional entry into medicine.
I'm happy to hear that it helps and feel free to ask any more questions in the forum!
Vel1
Hey VisVel,
Again, these aspects are very vague but what you need to understand is that each aspect of the application process for JCU is like a slider. So the higher the ATAR is on that slider, the lower the other things you need on those sliders and vice versa. To be completely honest, a grade 10 program seems a little old but depending on what it is, it could be useful. I didn't have anything prior to grade 11 in my application but if your scholars' program is something based on incredible leadership activities then it would be useful. The other thing is that if you don't have anything else to write, obviously, you should write that down. You have to prioritise all your activities depending on their significance to leadership/service/rural experience and also their recency then write them on your application in that order.
In terms of your ATAR, if you are rural, that could be enough. I've heard that JCU has implemented a bonus point system that gives you bonus points if you are rural for your ATAR (@chocomilkenthusiast). The best thing to do is to call them directly or look on their website for previous year results.
If I recall correctly, you can either type or handwrite. I actually completely hand wrote mine since I thought I could write it smaller while maintaining the readability of it. If you are handwriting it, ensure you do two things: type the paragraphs up in a Word doc prior to writing it down (so there are no mistakes and you can see the word count) and secondly, ensure you do your best handwriting for the application (for legibility and impression). But feel free to choose whatever you are more comfortable with.
Finally, usually, when they don't say anything, it just means that you have to pass methods and that's it. For example, JCU specifically mentions you only have to get a C (pass) in English, Methods and Chemistry to satisfy their subject entry requirements.
That's all good and hope this helps!
Akhi22
Happy to help! You can certainly do a bridging course to get the chemistry knowledge. However, I find it unnecessary to do the bridging course as it is not "required" knowledge and they will teach you chemistry in uni. The reason I say that is because it may take you even longer to get into med if you do the bridging course and med already takes a long time when you take the optimal pathway.
The difference between the first two and the last one is that the first two are what you call "provisional entry" and the last one is "graduate entry". Provisional entry means you get into med in grade 12 (basically) and all you have to do is maintain a certain GPA (usually, GPA of 5) in your undergraduate degree to get into med. Graduate entry means you can get into med anytime after grade 12 but you have to do the GAMSAT and study/finish a related degree.
I hope that makes sense and let me know if you have any questions!
That's great to hear that you are interested in med! Your friends are correct in SOME way that chemistry is quite important, in that chemistry is usually known as the "central science". Additionally, it does scale pretty high so it does help you in the ATAR aspect too. In some universities such as JCU, it is even a subject pre-requisite for you to have completed chemistry. However, most unis DO NOT require chemistry knowledge and ONLY require you to have completed English such as UQ or Griffith [assumed knowledge is: Mathematical Methods (Units 3&4, C); One of Biology, Chemistry, Physics (Units 3&4, C)].
So what I am trying to say is that if you didn't do chemistry and you have no option to do it now, I don't think there is any reason for you to stress. As someone who graduated only two years ago and going through medical science right now, they teach chemistry in uni from the ground up (just at a faster rate) so there is nothing to worry at all. Right now, UCAT and ATAR should be your biggest worries for you to get into med.
TLDR: Chemistry would have been beneficial if you did it BUT you still have an equal chance as anyone to get into med.
Let us know if you have any more questions and hope that helps!!
Hey @Study-Hard,
Again, it is a bit difficult to gauge the actual criteria but from what I've heard around, they do prefer Queensland domestic students over interstate students. But that isn't to say that with enough extras, leadership, service activities etc. and a good ATAR, you can't get in; you definitely can. But good luck!
Hope that helps!
Oh sorry for the bad wording. My parents are originally from a third-world country so we visit there quite often to see relatives and I help around in disadvantaged areas while being there - that's what I meant 
. I didn't mean that you have to visit there specifically for volunteering 
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Yeah, better late than never so try and do as many things as you can and whether or not it helps you for your application, it always be useful for you.
That's all good - it's my pleasure.
I would have to say it's tough but considering you are a rural applicant, I think you have a chance. They specifically prefer rural Queensland applicants and if you preference it first, then I think you have a chance. It's very difficult to say because these are all so subjective things but based on my years of research and following the medicine entrance programs, it would be tough but you have a chance. If you were a non-rural candidate, I would say you definitely cannot because if you have a 95 ATAR, you would need extensive extra-curricular activities or a national or international level sport/music or leadership etc. But with your rurality, if you pull a really good interview and write your application well, I would say you can get in. By far, definitely do NOT give up; try your very best because I have seen literal miracles of people getting into med unis in Queensland with very low UCATs and lower ATARs and NOT rural.
Hope that helped but as I mentioned earlier, it's very arbitrary and vague but I wish you all the best for UCAT and the application. Let me know if you have any other questions!