Physics have a common section for a reason, so I'm saying there's some sort of scaling going on.
Daniel Daners also told the SSP maths class there is still comparison between advanced/regular, so some sort of scaling there too.
Is scaling only applied to units of study that have a normal version and an advanced version which have a significant overlap in terms of content and assessments?
Like, take the following 2nd year maths units of study as examples:
1. MATH2069/MATH2969 (Discrete Mathematics and Graph Theory). The normal and advanced versions seem to have quite a significant amount of overlapping content - the only difference is that the advanced class has more challenging problems. So are students in the normal class expected to get better marks in order to get the same grade that students in the advanced class get?
2. MATH2061/MATH2961 (Linear Mathematics and Vector Calculus). The normal and advanced versions have totally different assessments and the material covered is very different, like the normal class focuses more on applications and calculations while the advanced class focuses a lot more on conceptual problems and proofs. So how is scaling (if any) supposed to work?
3. MATH2962 (Real and Complex Analysis) / MATH2968 (Algebra). These two units of study have no "normal" counterpart. So how is scaling applied in this case, when there is only one version of the unit of study?
Incidentally, I heard from Leon Poladian that starting from this year the school wouldn't be able to scale students' marks, so students really needed 50 marks overall to pass the unit of study. But he's teaching MATH2061 and MATH3063 this semester, so I was wondering if he meant only 3rd year units of study can't be scaled?
