Business Studies - Scaling (1 Viewer)

[sexykid]

How well does business studies scale?

 

[Aquawhite]

Unless you're in the top percentage of students, rather terribly...

Although you should not let scaling deter you and business studies is not a hard course to get to the top of the pack either.

 

[Makdadddy]

According to last year's A3 Table, if you got a HSC mark of 94 (need to be at least top 10% of state), it scaled down to 75. But that is not as low as it sounds... if all of your subjects were 75 scaled your ATAR would be 90+

 

[duckcowhybrid]

According to last year's A3 Table, if you got a HSC mark of 94 (need to be at least top 10% of state), it scaled down to 75. But that is not as low as it sounds... if all of your subjects were 75 scaled your ATAR would be 90+

That's an 89 scaling to a 75 mate. Still awful either way.

 

[twistedrebel]

business does not have the best scaling, but its scaling isn't the best, but nothing too bad like general maths, senior science. Also quite easy to get the marks.

 

[Makdadddy]

That's an 89 scaling to a 75 mate. Still awful either way.

Woops, accidently looked at P99

 

[hscishard]

Holy. I was actually thinking of doing business.

 

[Makdadddy]

Holy. I was actually thinking of doing business.

You do IPT, which scales even worse! But at least your subjects aren't as bad as mine... they all scale like shit (except English) :uhhuh:

 

[hscishard]

You do IPT, which scales even worse! But at least your subjects aren't as bad as mine... they all scale like shit (except English) :uhhuh:

Meh. It's only scaling. 15hours of effort = 1 Atar point. Lol. Thats how I think

 

[ibbi00]

According to last year's A3 Table, if you got a HSC mark of 94 (need to be at least top 10% of state), it scaled down to 75. But that is not as low as it sounds... if all of your subjects were 75 scaled your ATAR would be 90+

How are you supposed to interpret this table? What's the difference between scaled and HSC?

 

[Makdadddy]

How are you supposed to interpret this table? What's the difference between scaled and HSC?

Well HSC is the mark you get from the Board of Studies, and the scaled mark is what UAC does to make your ATAR. The scaled marks are then added and then give you an aggregate which is out of 500. To get an ATAR of 90 for last year, you needed about 365/500.

You can use this atar calculator to figure it out which is easier than the table. For example, you put in a 90 HSC mark for English Advanced, the percentile is 89, which means you came in the top 11% of the state, and the scaled mark is how much it scales down to per unit. So since English Advanced is 2 units 42.1*2 = 84.2. This means a 90 in English Advanced is worth 84.2 scaled. Then if you put English Standard, the scaling is basically the same... but look at the percentile, to get 90 in standard you need to be in the top 0.7% of the state. Play around with it