>>12826573I'm a year 11 and 12 teacher for physics and mathematics in Australia. What you need to maximise your ATAR is perfect scores in each subject you take which only comes from:
1) Building that base knowledge and ability to work hard in year 11 and previous years
2) Your reading ability needs to be fast and accurate
3) Learn to interpret the rubrics on the back of your assignments, if your teachers don't supply them, then demand that they do.
4) Abuse your teacher's draft marking scheme, try to get them to go through multiple drafts with you.
5) Everything in the subject guides provided to you by your state's year 11 and 12 teaching certificate is fair game for examination questions unless they specify that it isn't examinable.
The difference between students who get 99+ and 90-~98 for ATAR is not a huge difference but the ones who do get 99+ have been preparing prior to starting high school by attending places like Kumon or Hagwons (Korean study schools) and having monstrous expectations placed on them.
Another point about students who get 99+ Atars is, they don't seem to experience that much stress during the year compared to students who score lower, they are usually quite good at handling stress and sticking to commitments such as sport or musical instruments. The students who get 90+ but not 99 will always be the same type of student who beg the teacher for a remark of their assignment to try and find extra points or will go through the tests demanding to know why they didn't score full marks for when they had written a single word answer.
Medicine requires you to take an interview and so on, so you should be doing: Starting Social that can be found on /fit/. Also out of the 150+ people I knew from high school who wanted to do medicine only 1 person has gotten past the bachelor degree and gone into an internship from there, where they are currently trying to specialise as a GP.
