Letting out a sigh, Oscar looked over his results and said: “That’s okay – I’m happy with that. It’s a big relief.”
Oscar got exactly what he predicted: band 6s for economics, business studies, advanced maths and biology, a band 5 for advanced English and an E3 score for mathematics extension 1.
After congratulating him, his dad added: “And now it doesn’t matter. He’s probably never going to look at it again!”
Oscar was slightly disappointed that he received marks of 89 for English and 44 for mathematics extension 1 – scores just shy of the top performance bands.
“I was one mark away for a band six in English, and one mark away from an E4 for maths.”
He felt the happiest seeing that he had got an assessment mark – or the internal school result – of 95 in economics, which ended up being his second-highest result overall, after advanced maths.
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He almost dropped it to study physics instead, and told himself he would cruise by the first few weeks and not pay too much attention.
Surprisingly, he ended up loving it, and placed first in the subject his cohort at Inner Sydney High School.
“Being able to do something in class and being able to directly see it as it’s happening in real life is really interesting. In economics, you can see when the cash rate moves, and seeing how that affects the economy,” he said.
Economics is also known for being a content-dense HSC subject with concepts which could be difficult for students to grasp, but Oscar admitted he barely took any notes for it.
“Conceptually understanding everything was what really helped me. If I got to understand something, I didn’t need to memorise everything. I could think about it and kind of make these links in my head, that was really fun to do,” he said.
Oscar is aiming for an ATAR above 94 once they are released to students at 9am, and wants to study economics at the University of Sydney.
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