This is probably a stupid question for most of you, but I'm still pretty confused about scaling. I know that you shouldn't choose your subjects based on scaling. I haven't. I chose my favorite subjects that I'm best at. No worries people. BUT I notice that it does still make a difference! I looked up some statistics and found that practically no one in some of my subjects (I think modern history/legal studies?) gets over 45/50. Does that mean hardly anyone gets over 90%?? Because if that's the case with all my subjects, I have little chance of getting a mark of over 90% at the end, and I'm hoping to. What's going on?? Should I adjust my subjects a little in case scaling ruins my mark??
HSC Scaling Question?? (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter MollieH
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I think you might be confusing aligning and scaling. Aligning occurs when raw exam marks are weighted and whatever to give the final exam mark, whereas scaling is conducted for the purposes of calculating an ATAR (it involves raw exam marks).