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^^. But at the same time I feel the people who do the harder subjects should be rewarded with good scaling.my brother said ...
* scaling is like disadvantaging some students for not being able to do harder subjects
that's what i say..^^. But at the same time I feel the people who do the harder subjects should be rewarded with good scaling.
Well, I wouldn't say that it's "not that hard", just the most difficult subject in the HSC - though, if you have mathematical talent, it shouldn't be too much of a problem.People make 4U sound really hard, trust me, it is not that hard.
I reckon people exaggerate, it IS hard for people who don't put enough effort in it!Well, I wouldn't say that it's "not that hard", just the most difficult subject in the HSC - though, if you have mathematical talent, it shouldn't be too much of a problem.
Yeah, exactly - they're not able to do harder subjects... because they're not smart enough to.my brother said ...
* scaling is like disadvantaging some students for not being able to do harder subjects
thats not true, im sure that all those subjects cant just be " winged" .TBH I reckon scaling is quite unfair. I know a few people who are doing good scaling subjects like 4u maths, economics, physics..they don't put the hard yards in but they'll still get 97+
But for those who do crap scaling subjects and try their ass off might only get 96.
But it does reward those who can cope with difficult subjects.
But I guess scaling is a 'natural occurrence' because how they determine what scales up/down is by looking at the cohort that's doing that subject. They look at all their OTHER marks and if their other marks (in other subjects) are good, then the subject is scaled well. MX2 scales so well because everyone doing it rips shit at their other subjects - ie do very well, usually. Dance doesn't scale well because there are people who fail their other subjects doing it.
But I'm glad I can reap scaling - woot
Interesting. Just for comparison's sake, here are the marks needed for subjects generally considered as very low scaling to get 99.95This thread has got me thinking a bit so I did an experiment with an ATAR calculator. Basically, what I did was look for the bare minimum marks needed to achieve 99.95 with a high scaling combo of subjects (i.e. the Asian 10) and a humanities combo.
Here is what I got:
High Scalers:
Advanced English: 96
MX1: 93
MX2: 93
Chemistry: 96
Physics: 96
Humanities combo
Advanced English 96
Modern History 96
Geography 96
Legal Studies 97
Business studies 97
I thought that was pretty interesting. The maths subjects have a lot of push power, but chemistry and physics required similar marks to the humanities subjects.