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[Failure_123]

Does general maths scale really bad??

 

[Smilebuffalo]

yup

 

[wantingtoknow]

http://www.boredofstudies.org/scaledmeans.php

^ Although that's out of date, the subjects should scale around the same every year.

 

[Timothy.Siu]

pretty much. and if for some strange reason you are reallly really good at general maths, u shud probably do 2unit.

 

[alex09hsc]

the way i think of it is, if you don't need maths for your prospective career but you're good at it, general is the way 2 go. should be easy to attain band 6 which wont scale down!!

 

[MrDimple]

everyone says it scales bad.

 

[alex09hsc]

it scales roughly the same as business studies and legal studies, but it's probably easier to get a high band five in gen maths than those two.

 

[the-derivative]

pretty much. and if for some strange reason you are reallly really good at general maths, u shud probably do 2unit.

Yeah, that's true.
Often it's too late but. I know with many of my friends, they were crap in Yr 10, but somehow ace General, so it's too late to go up.

But yeah, general scales like shit.

 

[MrDimple]

yeah im pretty much acing general maths,i use to get like not past like 44% or so now i average 85% if you sucked at general maths like i did just work hard

 

[Timothy.Siu]

the way i think of it is, if you don't need maths for your prospective career but you're good at it, general is the way 2 go. should be easy to attain band 6 which wont scale down!!

basically everything scales down..except some subjects or the top few marks of some subjects.
But general maths scales down hard and its capped, so even if u get 100% u dont get 100% lol

 

[Failure_123]

Hypothetically if i get lets say 50 for physics and scales to 80. 90 for general maths and scaled to 81, that means general maths is counted to the UAI lol?? since physics is my lowest mark out of the 10 units.

If so, scaling is just ridiculous because gen maths could possibly be better than physics in terms of the mark.

 

[the-derivative]

Hypothetically if i get lets say 50 for physics and scales to 80. 90 for general maths and scaled to 81, that means general maths is counted to the UAI lol?? since physics is my lowest mark out of the 10 units.

If so, scaling is just ridiculous because gen maths could possibly be better than physics in terms of the mark.

Most likely physics.
Treat scaling like currency conversion. Some 'currency' is worth more than others, for example in this situation, physics is worth more than general maths.

 

[possessionless]

it scales roughly the same as business studies and legal studies, but it's probably easier to get a high band five in gen maths than those two.

???
is this true??

 

[Gunner4lyfe]

???
is this true??

WTH!!! no!!!!!!!!!
business and legal = general?????
???????


NONONONONO. There is a difference....not a MASSSSSSSIVE one...not a sliiiggghtt one.....but yes there is a difference

 

[possessionless]

WTH!!! no!!!!!!!!!
business and legal = general?????
???????


NONONONONO. There is a difference....not a MASSSSSSSIVE one...not a sliiiggghtt one.....but yes there is a difference

it better not be true!!

 

[the-derivative]

General maths has scaling ~ 18-19, whereas Business Studies and Legal Studies has scaling ~ 25. So there is quite a significant difference.

 

[possessionless]

General maths has scaling ~ 18-19, whereas Business Studies and Legal Studies has scaling ~ 25. So there is quite a significant difference.

oh thank god!

 

[random-1005]

Does general maths scale really bad??

im pretty sure there have been several hundreds of threads on this topic

 

[random-1005]

everyone says it scales bad.

maybe, just maybe, because it does!

 

[muscleman09]

it will scale bad if u dont get 90+ raw mark.

85 at least...



and yes, legal studies scales shit LOL, i always thought it was the "hard" subject....which would scale.. but apparently not.