Atar scaling (Ancient history) (1 Viewer)

[Ruski1]

To cut the long story short, I have gotten my end of prelim report, and I am quite shocked ! For ancient history I have gotten 85% for both of my tests, and now my final mark came up as 70%, yes F*** 70 !. I don't understand how this is possible, I had been somewhat familiar with the concept of scaling, but I honestly didn't think it would scale down by 15%. How am I suppose to avoid this crap ? I worked my arse off, and I don't understand how I managed to get destroyed so hard

 

[braintic]

I would say that this is most likely an error.
Have you asked your teacher / head teacher?

It certainly has nothing to do with ATAR scaling. There is no way your History department would give such poor advertising for their subject by scaling their marks down like this. I've never heard of a school where they adjust marks in year 11 reports in order to predict results a year down the track.

 

[SuperMike96]

A raw ancient mark of 85 would scale to a band 6 in the HSC. It's either a mistake, or they scaled you in relation to your peers who may have all done much better than you?

 

[Queenroot]

Unless you did considerably worse in something that was weighted more than those exams, it's an error. Lucky it's prelims and not HSC, check with your teacher.

(It's happened to me before, they put in my marks wrong.)