Hey in my opinion yes, shouldn't have to worry, Bio, Business and P.E Will help save your mark from General maths, i also do G maths and understand the same pain haha. I assume your doing advanced English? Your business mark and bio mark will be what gets you into macquarie, grats good luck.
I was under the impression the ATAR, was calculated in the same fashion as the UAI. But i heard from somebody that they calculate all your units and then they figure it out, so basically if you do 11 or 12 and you screw up it still makes a huge difference. Even though they take the 10.
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Yeah i also agree, i found all the past papers to be easier then this. Except the multis i found these multis easier but section 2 harder then previous years; i think the mean for the state will be low, and therefore scaled raw marks up significantly.
Don't break his balls, and if your schools rank is consistent then your probably gonna have a pro cohort again. So even if your assessment ranks are low at a good school it's much better then someone ranked highly at a "bad" school.
It asked if your interpretation supported the idea of loyalty or not, if you just talked about loyalty the whole time and didn't talk about your own reading you kinda went off the point of the essay. That's my opinion though; which is what i understood the question as asking.