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HSC Stuff => HSC Subjects + Help => Topic started by: bobcheng1111 on January 29, 2018, 02:56:24 am

Title: Band 5 vs band 6
Post by: bobcheng1111 on January 29, 2018, 02:56:24 am
Hi I was just wandering how big the difference is between getting something like a 89 (borderline band 6) and a 90 (just band 6) and how dramatically it can affect your atar thanks!
Title: Re: Band 5 vs band 6
Post by: jamonwindeyer on January 29, 2018, 05:38:14 pm
Hi I was just wandering how big the difference is between getting something like a 89 (borderline band 6) and a 90 (just band 6) and how dramatically it can affect your atar thanks!

Very minimal! Though remember the ATAR is a rank, so if a lot of people happen to be sitting on 89 in a given course, getting to 90 could have quite a large impact! Totally depends on the situation, but regardless, nothing huge ;D
Title: Re: Band 5 vs band 6
Post by: clovvy on January 30, 2018, 09:34:23 pm
Hi I was just wandering how big the difference is between getting something like a 89 (borderline band 6) and a 90 (just band 6) and how dramatically it can affect your atar thanks!

Getting 89 can be annoying because you are 1 mark away from band 6, and your name won't appear on the band 6 list for that subject...
Title: Re: Band 5 vs band 6
Post by: jamonwindeyer on January 30, 2018, 10:52:02 pm
This is very true  :-\

High band 5 doesn't have too much impact on ATAR compared to a low band 6 but the level of satisfaction, really.

Get that it would be a bit of a blow to get so close - My partner got 89 in English (so close!), someone in my cohort got an 89.95 ATAR (I mean come oooooon NESA) :P
Title: Re: Band 5 vs band 6
Post by: bobcheng1111 on January 31, 2018, 10:46:31 pm
oh phew I was told by my one of my teachers that it has a 'huge' impact on it so I was worried alot about it lol
Title: Re: Band 5 vs band 6
Post by: jamonwindeyer on January 31, 2018, 11:21:30 pm
oh phew I was told by my one of my teachers that it has a 'huge' impact on it so I was worried alot about it lol

Saying it's a huge is a bit of an incomplete and far-reaching statement to mine :)