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Istg imma crash out if there's a chunky combinatorics question this year.

I can definitely see a trig sub polynomials question tho since haven't seen one in a few years I don't think
 

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guys this might be a silly question, but why are the hsc ext 1 exams out of 70, if we get a mark out of 50?
 
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guys this might be a silly question, but why are the hsc ext 1 exams out of 70, if we get a mark out of 50?
I think it's due to it being 2hrs long instead of 3hrs. So only 2/3 of 100 rounds to around 70 ish

It gets rescaled based on whether it's worth 1 or 2 units tho (4u ppl)
 

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So guys... based on the difficulty of 4U math and 2U math, I think it is safe to say to do the hardest papers for 3U because NESA punished us
 
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What do people think was the hardest ext 1 hsc paper since new syllabus? Just want a reference cuz I'm expecting it to be hard
 

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does anybody know what raw is required to align to a high E4 (97, 98), and how big the margin between each mark is? if you have any examples, plz tell!

on the rawmarksdatabase, in 2024, a raw 84 became a 94, and a raw 87 is a 96 - it's insane to me that a 3 mark gap in raw was a 2 mark gap in aligned. do they just lump all of the higher ones together, in that case?

thanks guys!
 

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does anybody know what raw is required to align to a high E4 (97, 98), and how big the margin between each mark is? if you have any examples, plz tell!

on the rawmarksdatabase, in 2024, a raw 84 became a 94, and a raw 87 is a 96 - it's insane to me that a 3 mark gap in raw was a 2 mark gap in aligned. do they just lump all of the higher ones together, in that case?

thanks guys!
I think the idea of alignment is just to rank you against the state. It makes sense since if u lose 2 marks, many people probably scored higher than you already. this is cause the tests are only out of 70
 

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does anybody know what raw is required to align to a high E4 (97, 98), and how big the margin between each mark is? if you have any examples, plz tell!

on the rawmarksdatabase, in 2024, a raw 84 became a 94, and a raw 87 is a 96 - it's insane to me that a 3 mark gap in raw was a 2 mark gap in aligned. do they just lump all of the higher ones together, in that case?

thanks guys!
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probably around a 95?
 

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does anybody know what raw is required to align to a high E4 (97, 98), and how big the margin between each mark is? if you have any examples, plz tell!

on the rawmarksdatabase, in 2024, a raw 84 became a 94, and a raw 87 is a 96 - it's insane to me that a 3 mark gap in raw was a 2 mark gap in aligned. do they just lump all of the higher ones together, in that case?

thanks guys!
Alignment works by a committee judging what raw mark gives 90, 80, 70 etc. Every other mark in between those cut-offs is linearly interpolated. So when a 87 aligns to a 96 for example, it doesn’t align exactly to a 96. It’s actually rounded to 96.
 

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Alignment works by a committee judging what raw mark gives 90, 80, 70 etc. Every other mark in between those cut-offs is linearly interpolated. So when a 87 aligns to a 96 for example, it doesn’t align exactly to a 96. It’s actually rounded to 96.
the graph don't look linear to be tho
 

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