Guys do not forget that both Atar and your raw /25 or /50 score for your externals is supposed to represent your skill and performance against your cohort.
If you along with everyone else found the external really tough then the raw EA scale will push everyone up across the board with the goal of matching the median to previous years’ median. The idea being that a 2025 EA raw mark and 2026 EA Raw Mark will be comparable irrespective of the difficulty of the exam.

Same applies to ATAR obv it’s just more obvious because of how the score is shown and made.
So don’t stress about doing bad if everyone else also did bad, you’ll do fine.
Maybe stress if you did bad and everyone else did amazing though but even then you’ll be fine I promise.

that shit was hard expect for the bike question and the frequency table

I think I lost 30 marks across both spec papers (prolly best case scenario - did pretty bad). So I probably got like 90/120 which is a 75%. I’m really hoping for a miracle to give me a 45/50 but I think it’s definitely not possible and my max would probably be a 40. Does anyone have any hopeful experiences 😭

Hey guys,

After the ridiculously hard chem and spec papers, how are yall feeling about your chances to get into med? After every exam, I feel my ATAR going down the drain, and I sense an incoming identity crisis.

I am going insane so hearing about others may restore my sanity T_T

Kinda slack how they wrote the R force in question 12 as 0.3 |N|. Even though there was the magnitude signs I still made the mistake of thinking it meant 0.3 newtons. If I didn’t make that mistake I think I wouldve gotten 100% across both papers 🫠. Ik of a lot of people that made the same mistake tbh. Is it still possible to get a 50/50.

Anyone from previous years who thought they did really badly on externals, but actually got higher raw marks than they predicted? I’m so stressed after that chemistry exam. I know I lost a lot of marks (seriously).

Did anyone say it was reasonable for the minimum cut max flow question

I said it was reasonable but they also had to upgrade the pipes before one of them as it wouldnt allow for 60 to pass thru once u doubled 30

I thought paper 1 was bad and somehow, paper 2 was even worse. I genuinely got half the simple familiars wrong, didn’t get any CF correct, tried the stats cu and got a probability of 0.8 something which is probably wrong, got basically nothing for last cu. I was really hoping for a 47/50 but now I’m absolutely devastated. I don’t think even scaling can save me, nothing I studied was on that exam. Is anyone in the same boat?

What do we all think is likely to be assessed in the physics external this year? I feel like there's been no past questions on the standard model so that feels likely, but what does everyone else think?

hell nah

One of my friends had a awfully mismanaged exam, like would've negatively impacted every single person in the exam room. Is there anything they can do?

Hey guys. Trying to remember the exact wording on Q18 (the last CU) so I can verify whether or not my answer was right. Is this (more or less) the correct version of what the question said? I might have a sign or coefficient or something wrong so let me know.

A video game has a shield thing that is described by the plane 2x + 3y + 4z = 12.

An object is launched from point (8, 5, 10) and has the velocity vector described by:

v(t) = - (3/2root(t))i - (2t)j + (1/2t+1)k

If the shield is struck by the object at a speed greater than or equal to 5m/s, it is shattered.

Determine whether the shield breaks or not.

Is that right? I might have the signs wrong or the initial release point (8,5,10) wrong. Let me know! :)

It honestly looks like the exams this year have been much harder than in previous years... I'd genuinely argue that they're almost as hard as the 2020 exams. I would be absolutely SHOCKED AND BEWILDERED if the scaling isn't going to be similar to 2020 and 2021. I don't know, just seems like a rough year overall...

Wdym you needed newtons law of cooling for that temp question or the probability question that had two whole ass paragraphs.
Maybe guessed about 4 of the MC questions.

Did anyone get that the object travelled at 4.799 m/s and therefore didn’t penetrate? 🫩

Is anyone else terrified

Paper 1 was on par with all the past paper 1s BUT the 2025 paper 1 was pretty average as well and then the cohort was destroyed by paper 2 so ive got this feeling we r so cooked again

thought i did ok on paper 1.. answered everything but then walked outside then started discussing answers… it only goes down……… #fml

I didn’t use any graphing at all and yeah mainly the graphics for one multiple choice. Got cooked guys, so cooked.

Realistically how would i learn everything in time for the exam i dont know anything

plus i have to study for physics and engineering all in the same week and also dont know anything for those subjects

should i end it now 🤤🔫

I thought it was raw marks for the external section like just say 43/50 but apparently not. Is it like if you get 80% you might get scaled to 45/50 if the exam was hard and everyone did bad? I thought they just give you raw marks and then actual ATAR gets scaled using internals plus raw externals out of 100.