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Srd2000

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Extension Maths Study or Further Maths 3/4
« on: April 10, 2017, 01:54:44 pm »
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Hi All, I am currently completing methods 3/4 in year 11 and next year I am planning to do specialist 3/4. I am being suggest that I consider doing an extension study in maths and I'm being told that there is a credit towards your ATAR. However, I have another option, I can do further 3/4 next year instead. Would it be better to have the credit from the extension study or would it be better to smash further and get an easy 45 raw? Thanks
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Re: Extension Maths Study or Further Maths 3/4
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2017, 10:01:51 am »
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It'd be better to smash further, as the credit is only a maximum of 5 aggregate points in your bottom 2.
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Re: Extension Maths Study or Further Maths 3/4
« Reply #2 on: April 11, 2017, 10:34:01 am »
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It'd be better to smash further, as the credit is only a maximum of 5 aggregate points in your bottom 2.

Not true...

1. Further is high risk and I've seen people capable of 40s for methods and spesh get low 40s for further. Not an 'easy raw 45' since you make a several mistakes like missing a detail and you're done. Is it easier to get just 80% from a 60% recycled test in uni or top 2% rank competing amongst not only people good at maths (at the high -end) but those who have full time on further due to not doing spesh or even methods and don't make mistakes for 4.5?

2. More importantly, you are only allowed a maximum of 2 Maths subjects in your primary 4. And thus it is much more beneficial to take the uni credit due to the reason mentioned in 1. I can't see why'd someone would have spesh or methods in the bottom 2 slots.

3. Uni maths is outside school hours for a couple of hours only, giving free time for other subjects during school time.
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Re: Extension Maths Study or Further Maths 3/4
« Reply #3 on: April 11, 2017, 04:21:00 pm »
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Would it be better to have the credit from the extension study or would it be better to smash further and get an easy 45 raw? Thanks

i'm not completing any /maths/ extension subject (or any maths at all) so feel free to disregard this, but if further would also be likely to end up in your bottom 2 subjects, it might be better to do the extension. it'll (probably? unless your school's like mine and makes you take six subjects in yr12 lmao) give you an extra free period block, and unlike further, where you can screw up one thing and drop from 45 to 40, to get a 4.5 increment added for extension i'm pretty sure you need an 80% average. so there's more room for error. like i said, not an expert on maths, but i feel like it's probably easier to get 80% in extension maths than to score in the top 2% of the entire further cohort, haha. also i've got friends doing further in conjunction with methods and they're both bored out of their minds in it, which i guess isn't a great reason not to do the subject, but idk.

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Re: Extension Maths Study or Further Maths 3/4
« Reply #4 on: April 11, 2017, 06:42:41 pm »
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Great. Thanks! That really makes things clear; top 2% or top 20%.
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