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But business is easier to get a band 6 in because its so easy.

Naah trust me business studies is seriously common sense and I didn't know anything about it beforehand. The only thing that people struggle with is remembering the business syllabus word for word. Not all subjects are the same difficulty! Isn't that the concept that scaling is based on?

Yeah, something like that. People with lower marks will get scaled up much more than people with the top marks.

Business studies. You just need some basic knowledge and the rest of the content is common sense. Even case studies can be completely hypothetical and made up on the spot. Whereas maths ext2, i don't do it, but everyone i know who does says it takes up around 50% of their study time.

This is the attitude i had at the end of yr10 when picking my subjects. But if you want to do med, meaning you're aiming for really really high atar, i think it becomes more relevant than people make it out to be. And yeah, you can just do bridging courses at the beginning of uni. But i've...

Not referring to OP. Just in general. And yeah, to some extent people can 'ace' their externals and significantly pull up their atar from what was expected from them, especially if they're aiming for 80s-low90s.

Yeah, our school likes to scale up all the averages so that they're between 75-85. So in this case its normally the people who do exceptionally well who are disadvantaged, because obviously they can only be pushed up so much, and then the 'gaps' between them and significantly poorer performing...

+1 Hence the false sense of security. Like i've read people who've asked for estimates and then they go, 'Wow really? Thank you so much! I don't have to try so hard now'. And yeah, i think people underestimate the difficulty of 'acing hsc'. Like if you're only average at an average ranked...

Ancient workload and time put in is ridiculous if you want to do really well. I do phys and ancient and spend way more time on ancient. Nah, some courses are significantly easier and require way less effort... But yeah, comes down to where your strengths are. If you're good at science and...

This wouldn't mean much, since OP is basically median for everything except for subjects with very little people, and overall internal rank wouldn't take into account any subject scaling.

People need to stop turning to bos for a false sense of security/comfort. But cos you need it, Yes of course you can get 90, just ace the externals!

*3rd. And stop being embarassing.

I heard the 4u average was 74%? And yeah, 2u average was 70%....It wasn't super hard, most stuff was pretty standard, so yeah i'm severely doubting the ability of our grade....The highest mark was only 112/120.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. no. Also, well done khfreakau, its cos the white kids are the ones that are actually smart, not asians who rely on their tutors to be smart. And the 2u average was lower than the 4u average, wtf.

Re: ok guys the commerce cut off at UNSW is 96.70, will it go up or down in 2013????? And you don't even need 96.7, you can get up to 5 bonus points for band 5s and 6s in maths and english advanced.

If you cared about scaling, you wouldn't do either of them

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Because you know you'd be lucky to even get ANY girl?

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