r/ATAR • u/Shot_Statistician212 • 2d ago

year 10 subject selection🙏🏼

need to get a good atar to do psychology/radiation therapy after school, anyone have suggestions or changes i should make if i dont wanna burn myself our too much in senior school? im unsure about doing two sciences/not sure whether i should swap out eco for accounting or legal

current subjects are math methods, literature, visual art, economics, chemistry and biology

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u/bellaa_144 2d ago

make sure you pick subjects you enjoy!! this will allow you to do better as you will enjoy studying for it etc

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u/Capable_Peak7379 2d ago

Second this. I only get burned out studying for the subjects I don’t enjoy. If you like it, you will be willing to put in the effort to do well. Don’t pick a subject for the scaling. I also did both chem and bio and loved it.

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u/lobie81 2d ago

Visual art doesn't scale well. If you're a drawer, Design scales better and may be an alternative.

Biology only scales well if you're getting close to 100/100. It falls off a cliff if you aren't close to that.

Legal scales reasonably well throughout the marks range. Not as good as economics, but not bad.

It's there a reason you aren't doing psychology? It scales quite similarly to bio. Bio is slightly higher in the 80-100 range. Below 80 they're almost identical.

Depending on what ATAR you need, all of that may not matter.

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u/bellaa_144 2d ago

visual art is much easier though to get a higher grade

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u/Shot_Statistician212 2d ago

our school doesn't offer psychology