Well, I really wouldn't mind if the variation provided me with a higher ATAR, but 9/10 people here seem to have gotten a lower one.
Don't go about generalising. There are so many Asians who don't give two flying shits about their ATAR, not that it's a good thing or anything.
and even then its a damn good one! arrogant asian is arrogant.
But isnt that always the case. Things are usually easier in hindsight.
I was the exact same with bio. 94 exam mark, over 85% all year at least and I get an 83 assessment mark? I called them up and it was pretty much, there is nothing we can do, it's based on how your cohort does etc something about exponential functions blah blah. I'm just disappointed on the fact that, if some of my ranks were higher, I could of gotten 2-3 more band 6's. Oh well, I can get into my law/science course so I'm happy =D hahalels17 said:
That's just the nature of scaling. Also, your school may have set easier internal examinations, hence it was 'easy' (per se) to get 85%+ all year. Scaling is there to ensure fairness across the whole state. It's not perfect, but there is no better system. For the converse of scaling, in 4U Maths, for my first assessment, I got something like 67% (I came 3rd out of 130 kids, in a Top 10 school). But eventually, I got 99 for my internal mark for the HSC. That particular exam was a really difficult exam, and as a result, we were 'scaled up'.
