Hello, just wondering about all medical students who studied NCEA in New Zealand and are studying med at an Australian Uni now! How many excellence credits did you get, and specifically in which subjects etc to get your ATAR? I'm quite confused on how ATAR will be calculated from NCEA (I heard that they take the best 90 credits from 5 subjects and externals are heavily weighted?). Anyhow, thank you so much for your help!
Really appreciate it
Hey there! I applied for Australian unis in 2015 (when I did year 13) and didn't end up going, but here's how my NCEA converted to ATAR
So I did 6 level 3 subjects as well, but one of them in 2014. I did stats (in 2015), calculus, biology, chemistry, physics and English. Stats, calculus, English, chemistry and physics were my best subjects but I'll let you know bio in case that was also counted too instead of stats:
For stats I did 4 internals and 3 externals - all E
For physics I did 2 internals and 3 externals - all E
For chemistry I did 2 internals and 3 externals - all E except one external which was M
For English I did 3 internals and 3 externals - all E in internals, one E, one M and one SNA in externals (lol SNA shouldn't count but dunno if it affected my ATAR at all)
For calculus I did 1 internal and 3 externals - all E except one external which was M
For bio I did 3 internals and 3 externals - all E in internals, 2 M and 1 A for externals (lol)
Overall I achieved 108 credits at excellence, 24 at merit and 4 at achieved
ATAR: 99.75
But in the end I think it was my UMAT more so than my ATAR that did me in as far as med applications went for Australia but I'm doing medicine down at Otago anyway