Tutoring - Is It Necessary for the HSC? (1 Viewer)

[academic_reaper]

i didnt study for 3u so i did stats like the day before my 3u exam. I did my exam in 2022 where the final q was a stats questions and i got 0/4 in that.

Sounds like a 1st class problem

 

[WeiWeiMan]

4u 2022 was the hardest 4u exam till date btw (which is what the aligment indicates) definitely harder than the 3u exam

the alignment is just whatever the 60th percentile got be fr the 2023 exam was harder

 

[dumNerd]

the alignment is just whatever the 60th percentile got be fr the 2023 exam was harder

if you say so bud

 

[coolcat6778]

i didnt study for 3u so i did stats like the day before my 3u exam. I did my exam in 2022 where the final q was a stats questions and i got 0/4 in that.

yup, i noticed 2022 was such an unlucky year with all those hard stats questions

 

[coolcat6778]

the alignment is just whatever the 60th percentile got be fr the 2023 exam was harder

alignment doesn't completely correlate to difficulty. Take math advanced 2024 vs 2021. 2024 Is clearly harder than 2021, yet 2021 had a band 6 cut off mark 3 marks below 2024

 

[Eagle Mum]

If you’re aiming for Med, it’s very rare for students to get that type of ATAR without some extra help. Of course, it does happen, but it’s rare.

There’s a reason why high performing people in athletics, business, life in general have mentors and coaches and are part of masterminds and communities!

My eldest was 16 when she finished HSC in 2015 at our local public high school, with band 6 results for Adv Eng, Bio, Chem, Physics, economics and E4 in maths Extn 1 & 2. She didn’t have a tutor and in fact her phone was constantly buzzing with messages from her classmate friends asking her for help. An independent learning attitude and helping others under pressure stood her in great stead for working in ED all of last year. Honestly, I would not have wanted her to be a medico if she couldn’t handle the pressure.

The fact that she also did not get coaching for her med school interviews was good because her answers were not rehearsed and her responses were different from the stock standard ones, such that some panel members actually told her that she’d given them a new perspective, which probably gained her the offers from the med school of her first choice in each state.

 

[WeiWeiMan]

if you say so bud

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edit: if u gonna use statistics anyway, the sr cutoff for 3u taht yr was like high 98 whereas it was like high 99 for 4u

alignment doesn't completely correlate to difficulty. Take math advanced 2024 vs 2021. 2024 Is clearly harder than 2021, yet 2021 had a band 6 cut off mark 3 marks below 2024

it indeed correlates but they're separate things (correlation ≠ causation )

 

[Fizzy_Cyst]

My eldest was 16 when she finished HSC in 2015 at our local public high school, with band 6 results for Adv Eng, Bio, Chem, Physics, economics and E4 in maths Extn 1 & 2. She didn’t have a tutor and in fact her phone was constantly buzzing with messages from her classmate friends asking her for help. An independent learning attitude and helping others under pressure stood her in great stead for working in ED all of last year. Honestly, I would not have wanted her to be a medico if she couldn’t handle the pressure.

The fact that she also did not get coaching for her med school interviews was good because her answers were not rehearsed and her responses were different from the stock standard ones that some panel members actually told her that she’d given them a new perspective, which probably gained her the offers from the med school of her first choice in each state.

Your daughter sounds like an amazing young lady. Hats off to her for working hard and paving her own path! She is one of the ‘rare’ ones that I alluded to in my post. Taking 14 units into the HSC is crazy.. Band 6ing them all is CRAZIER! Rare indeed.

The learning doesn’t stop after the HSC is over and I’m sure she has surrounded herself with some amazing mentors/colleagues in her professional life to help her navigate the challenging field of medicine!

kudos to her

 

[Eagle Mum]

Your daughter sounds like an amazing young lady. Hats off to her for working hard and paving her own path! She is one of the ‘rare’ ones that I alluded to in my post. Taking 14 units into the HSC is crazy.. Band 6ing them all is CRAZIER! Rare indeed.

The learning doesn’t stop after the HSC is over and I’m sure she has surrounded herself with some amazing mentors/colleagues in her professional life to help her navigate the challenging field of medicine!

In that year, according to the HSC Distinguished Achievers honour roll, there were three students with band 6 / E4 in 14 units - one from JRAHS, one from Sydney Grammar and one from a high school very few people have ever heard of, where the majority of students take up trade apprenticeships after Yr 12. She even went overnight camping in the Blue Mountains with her classmates in stuvac, the week before the HSC exams, since very few of them cared about what ATAR they would get. She was that super organised at 16.

That was ten years ago. She is sitting postgrad fellowship exams soon - hopefully, the last exams she’ll ever have to sit. She enjoys teaching medical students.