Push through in english advanced or drop to standard? (1 Viewer)

[ZakaryJayNicholls]

On the flip side however, arent there a lot of uni courses with eng adv as assumed knowledge?

I should add that my original comment was for students aiming for quantitative programs (BE, BCom, BSc, BCompSci, BIT, etc). Based on OPs subjects I assumed they were headed for uni STEM.

As you say, if you are heading for a qualitative program (BA, LLB, BEd, BBus, BSocSc, etc) then Advanced English will be highly advantageous and, in many instances, mandatory.

 

[carrotsss]

As a series note, if you are planning to go into a quantitative degree program (BE, BCom, BSc, BCompSci, BIT, etc) your English course and band will essentially be irrelevant.

People who teach in quantitative departments rarely care how good you are at textual analysis (as long as you can read and write and are not completely incapable of reading a book/paper).

Consequently, it would be highly advisable to drop to standard and reallocate your advanced English study time towards math/physics which are almost always the preferred competencies for quantitative programs. In fact, many degree programs will actually require this as prerequisite material for some of the first-year courses (Some which I have taught/do teach include: UNSW - MATH1131/MATH1141, USYD - MATH1001, UON - MATH1110/PHYS1210).

So, if you are going for a quant program, this is the general advice I provide my students, and this is what I would strongly recommend to you.

Unfortunately as much as you’re right and English sucks, because HSC English has to count towards our ATAR, we pretty much have no choice but to try hard in it if we want a good ATAR.

 

[ZakaryJayNicholls]

Unfortunately as much as you’re right and English sucks, because HSC English has to count towards our ATAR, we pretty much have no choice but to try hard in it if we want a good ATAR.

Define good ATAR, I'd say a good ATAR is 75-90 and you really do not need advanced English for that kind of mark (even though adv eng scales well).
Now if your definition of good is 90+ then maybe.