anyone know how ancient scales? (1 Viewer)

[Zarafaraway]

im interested because people always say that modern is the higher scaling of the two courses...

 

[silverfiction]

hopefully well =)

but in reality i have no idea, if you get a band 6 you'll get scaled for sure thou.

 

[chriskoss]

To my knowledge and what teachers have told me, A.H is regarded an 'Easy' subject, so to get scaled positively for it you have to do really well (high band 5 to band 6)

Don't count on that though

 

[-may-cat-]

er, i dont think so, ancient scales pretty badly im pretty sure, think visual arts.
which is gay cuz its so much work.

 

[chriskoss]

That is what I meant mad cat.. since its an 'easy' course.. if you do bad in it.. it scales you bad.. thus being a bad scaling subject.

But its not like if you get 95 in it.. it will scale you down to 70 lol.

 

[-may-cat-]

That is what I meant mad cat.. since its an 'easy' course.. if you do bad in it.. it scales you bad.. thus being a bad scaling subject.

But its not like if you get 95 in it.. it will scale you down to 70 lol.

mad cat? was that meanness? im too tired i cant even tell....

 

[BabyK]

look at past yrs. modern scales above average close to adv.eng and ancient scales well....near general math...big diff....but if u get a band 6 no1 can change dat

 

[justbecause]

In comparison to Modern History, Ancient History is less difficult.
Also more people do Ancient History than Modern History; even more competition.

 

[obimoshman1234]

mad cat? was that meanness? im too tired i cant even tell....

lol new name for u may.

 

[-may-cat-]

lol new name for u may.

oh very funny. i need to start my cramming for today in about half an hour, am not looking forwards to it

 

[-vicki.VICIOUS-]

oh yeah ancient is such an easy course. she said sarcasticly.
obviously those ppl are just smart naturally.
im gunna die.
i had no idea things scaled so badly
im supposed to be aiming for an 80+ uai but apparently i wont even get a 50 according to SAM.
stupid sam.

 

[cottonmouth]

ancient is alot to learn... if you do it.. you all would know that!!

ancient is not an easy subject! it takes alot of interpretation... and answering the question to the examiners liking! they can get so picky... i got.. 3rd top mark in the trials at my school.. and i got 76! ... it is really hard to get like.. 100% in ancient history.. just because there are so many interpretations of what you are studying... gahhh

i dont think ancient history scales badly.

if you do well.. you do well..

 

[silverfiction]

ancient is alot to learn... if you do it.. you all would know that!!

ancient is not an easy subject! it takes alot of interpretation... and answering the question to the examiners liking! they can get so picky... i got.. 3rd top mark in the trials at my school.. and i got 76! ... it is really hard to get like.. 100% in ancient history.. just because there are so many interpretations of what you are studying... gahhh

i dont think ancient history scales badly.

if you do well.. you do well..

yeah its not easy.

but its not hard to get over 80%

if you know your stuff and are good at remembering dates and interpreting sources then your fine.

:wave:

but because there is so much to learn doesnt mean that it scales high even if you do bad.

its just the way it is.

 

[jennieTalia]

im interested because people always say that modern is the higher scaling of the two courses...

Not badly.
It doesn't scale as well as Modern History and the sciences, but better than drama, art etc.

 

[Zarafaraway]

thanks for clearing that up guys...
however freaking me out a bit now because i havent touched the subject since trials and i just woke up after taking a nap after blasted extension english thsis morning
uh oh
:S
cram time i guess

 

[Zarafaraway]

look at past yrs. modern scales above average close to adv.eng and ancient scales well....near general math...big diff....but if u get a band 6 no1 can change dat

also how do you check the scaling in past years? im intrigued - is that possible?
if so where you getting these magical figures from?

 

[jalae]

I thought that Ancient scaled higher than Modern cause more people do Ancient...

But yea, just try our bests and not worry about scaling cause its not gonna affect your choice now to study Ancient anyway. But man its so boring atm...

 

[BabyK]

also how do you check the scaling in past years? im intrigued - is that possible?
if so where you getting these magical figures from?

d scaling is on this page, to the home pg of bored of studies...click on other stuff and it has scaling under advice, den click scaling of subjects n der u go.

 

[BoyNextDoor]

scaled mean of ancient history: 25.0 (not scaled up or down)
scaled mean of modern history: 27.4 (scaled up)


anything above 25 is scaled up, anything below 25 is scaled down.

http://www.uac.edu.au/pubs/pdf/scaling_report_2007-web.pdf

Thanks for this.
Well I hope this year, that it scales good.
I only got 80% for the trials this year, I hope I do even better in the HSC exam tomorrow.

 

[Sangfroid]

*sigh*

Guess my UAI is screwed then. I've been slacking off the entire course and I'm about to pay for it finally.

Stupid distance education. T_T