Is it possible to get 100% in a subject? (1 Viewer)

[LittleGenius]

I know that you can't score 100% in your HSC, but is it possible to get a 100% score for individual subjects?

 

[LightXT]

Of course it's possible. It just doesn't happen very often, especially for Humanities subjects. BTW, many people get a raw mark of 100% for 2/3U Mathematics.

 

[D94]

Of course it's possible. It just doesn't happen very often, especially for Humanities subjects. BTW, many people get a raw mark of 100% for 2/3U Mathematics.

I wouldn't say "many", but there are a few each year.

It rarely happens in humanities subjects due to the subjective nature of marking. One marker may feel an essay deserves 25/25, whereas another may feel it deserves 24/25, meaning getting 100% is almost impossible. In objective subjects such as maths, it's either right or wrong and each bit of working out gets a mark, so you're either right or wrong. Hence, 100% is achievable in those subjects.

 

[LightXT]

I wouldn't say "many", but there are a few each year.

It rarely happens in humanities subjects due to the subjective nature of marking. One marker may feel an essay deserves 25/25, whereas another may feel it deserves 24/25, meaning getting 100% is almost impossible. In objective subjects such as maths, it's either right or wrong and each bit of working out gets a mark, so you're either right or wrong. Hence, 100% is achievable in those subjects.

Many meaning "more than 20 people" in the state each year.

 

[D94]

Many meaning "more than 20 people" in the state each year.

Assuming first ranked gets 100%, then for Mathematics, there was 1 student, for Mathematics Extension 1 there was 1 student, for Mathematics Extension 2 there was 1 student, and for General Mathematics, there were 2 students. That's not 20; that's 5.

EDIT: unless you meant overall, which in that case, you'd be right.

 

[someth1ng]

^there's probably more since they might not be ranked 1 for assessments.

 

[D94]

^True that but I doubt there would be more than 5 in each maths. Even with other subjects, it would be rare as most subjects have a subjective component to it.

 

[LoveHateSchool]

Personal experience here.
It's occurred in humanities subjects. I don't know if they got 100 raw, but their reported mark ended up being HSC mark 100.
I know a guy who came 1st in the state of Music, he got 100 HSC mark reported.
I also know a girl who came 1st in HSC dance, with 100 HSC mark reported.
I know of people who got 50/50 in EE2.

It's quite a rare phenomena though outside of maths and even quite rare in maths considering how many people takes maths.

 

[bladeys]

^True that but I doubt there would be more than 5 in each maths. Even with other subjects, it would be rare as most subjects have a subjective component to it.

Nah you're wrong. I'd say there would be 5-10 full marks in externals for maths.

 

[nightweaver066]

Nah you're wrong. I'd say there would be 5-10 full marks in externals for maths.

I'd have thought there would be more for 2U mathematics.

 

[LightXT]

Assuming first ranked gets 100%, then for Mathematics, there was 1 student, for Mathematics Extension 1 there was 1 student, for Mathematics Extension 2 there was 1 student, and for General Mathematics, there were 2 students. That's not 20; that's 5.

EDIT: unless you meant overall, which in that case, you'd be right.

I meant externals. Knowing the top people in my school, and other top selective/private schools, it's not hard to imagine more than 20 in the state getting 100% raw for the 2/3U externals.
Anyway, that's beside the point. OP got her answer. Yes, it most certainly IS possible.

 

[delian]

Nah you're wrong. I'd say there would be 5-10 full marks in externals for maths.

I think there's quite a bit more than 10.

 

[D94]

I meant externals. Knowing the top people in my school, and other top selective/private schools, it's not hard to imagine more than 20 in the state getting 100% raw for the 2/3U externals.
Anyway, that's beside the point. OP got her answer. Yes, it most certainly IS possible.

Yeah fair enough. I thought you meant an overall mark of 100, which would most likely be less than how many got 100 for externals.

 

[theycallmebob]

is it possible to get 500/500?

 

[Timske]

yeah blrooo

 

[Omnipotence]

is it possible to get 500/500?

Yes, its possible. Has a perfect aggregate of 500 ever been achieved? I don't think so.
I believe the cut-off for 99.95 this year was 476.5, infer what you will.

 

[someth1ng]

Yes, its possible. Has a perfect aggregate of 500 ever been achieved? I don't think so.
I believe the cut-off for 99.95 this year was 476.5, infer what you will.

I don't think it's happened before but I think the highest is about 490-495. To get 500/500, you need pretty much 1st in all your subjects (except Extension Maths) since 2nd in a lot subjects becomes 97-98 and that becomes less than 100/100 scaled mark.

 

[theycallmebob]

You must be old

 

[Cl324]

You must be old

LOL

But to get 500, do 4u maths, 4u english, 3u classical greek and come first in everything

 

[theycallmebob]

LOL

But to get 500, do 4u maths, 4u english, 3u classical greek and come first in everything

What does classical greek scale better than sciences or something?