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Why?

There's probably a forum on this. But I'm to lazy to search it.
 

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I think OP is referring ot why Standard is capped lower than ESL rather than scaled (probably is mixed up by the terminology). Why else would she bother posting a thread if both courses scale the same?
 

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esl scales higher than advanced english

it's a known fact.

also easier to do well in ESL
 

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as if?
ive heard standard scales like SHIT and its extremely hard to get band 6 in it
they scale the same, a 80 in standard is same as 80 in advance in terms of scaling. Standard is harder to get good marks. Top 3-4% get band 5 + in standard, while top 30-35% get it in advance.
 

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they scale the same, a 80 in standard is same as 80 in advance in terms of scaling. Standard is harder to get good marks. Top 3-4% get band 5 + in standard, while top 30-35% get it in advance.
ESL scales like 0.5 more than Standard
according to Matrix Atar Calculator
while also percentage wise it's easier to get a higher mark in ESL than Standard too. So not only does it scale a bit higher, it's easier to do well, and more people get band 6.
 
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ESL scales like 0.5 more than Standard
according to Matrix Atar Calculator
while also percentage wise it's easier to get a higher mark in ESL than Advanced too. So not only does it scale a bit higher, it's easier to do well, and more people get band 6.
is it better to do ESL than advanced?
 

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Based on this I'd say you'd be saving a lot of precious time by taking up ESL and still do well in it. Though there's quite a number of uni's with English standard or advanced as a prerequisite.
 

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Based on this I'd say you'd be saving a lot of precious time by taking up ESL and still do well in it. Though there's quite a number of uni's with English standard or advanced as a prerequisite.
this.

and I wish i could do ESL, english is the worst subject in the world.
 

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Based on this I'd say you'd be saving a lot of precious time by taking up ESL and still do well in it. Though there's quite a number of uni's with English standard or advanced as a prerequisite.
like wat course?
 

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but not most of these prequisite
are just recommended
and not complusory....

and when you know how to speak and write english. It's not that important to know what a simile, metaphor is and it's effect is when you're cutting up people in the future.
 

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