I'm starting Year 12 next year with only 5 subjects (Maths Methods, General English, Biology, Chemistry and Visual Art). When selecting senior subjects I refrained from doing Physics as well seems as I was trying to enroll in an English extension at a different school of distance education. The school wouldn't allow me to study just one subject with them and my school doesn't offer it, so by then I was stuck with doing 5 subjects in Year 11.
I assume that there's nothing I can do to change or add subjects now that I'm going into Year 12, so how will this affect my ATAR? My sibling graduated with an ATAR of 99.95 but she took Maths C on top of the five I'm doing, and Physics instead of Bio. I'm really starting to regret not doing a sixth subject at the start of the year as mine aren't particularly high scaling anyway.
Note- I'm a VCE student, this may not all apply.I'm doing 5 subjects (one of which I did accelerated). I expect to get 90+ ATAR (I could be wrong, but still).
heids did 5 subjects. I can't recall what she got exactly but it was
definitely 90+. It's certainly achievable!
Can you not pick up a subject in year 12?? It may be harder, and you'd probably want to ask for advice as to which subjects to steer clear from, but I think that's a way to do it - you
could study over the summer to make sure you really know stuff.
Scaling isn't as important as people make it out to be - by the time you get to the top end (which you'd want to get a 90+ ATAR) it isn't as different between raw and scaled.
I don't know about QCE, whether it's exactly the same as VCE or not, but at least for VCE, the 5th and 6th subject you only get 10% of the score into your ATAR - so, for instance, if we assume my HHD score was what I get (it's raw 31) and my subjects this year are top 4, I'd only get 3.1 points out of HHD (don't ask how the scoring later works, IDK). For your sixth subject, therefore, the maximum you can add to your aggregate is 5 points.
Mainly, I'd say, though, don't worry about it - just do your best!