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[boringhousewife]

I have no idea what this means. I'm a mature aged student doing HSC at my local high school. They didn't do this scaling last time I was at school.
It's like this. I really hate English. I'm doing advanced and I'm thinking of dropping to standard.
I had a look at the page on this site that has scaling numbers but I have no idea what it means.
This is what I'm doing, with the numbers from that scaling page.
maths +4.8
modern history +2.0
biology +1.8
chemistry +6.4
ancient history -0.1
history extension +9.4
english - can't see where it is.
Can someone help me interpret this and tell me what the advantage/disadvantage to dropping to standard would be please?

 

[kami]

essentially standard and advanced are scaled the same however the electives are different, as well as the standard of english taught - very few people in standard get band 6
Scaling is essentially a positive or negative effect on your score's contribution to the UAI due to UAC's perception of the canditure i.e General Math scales far lower than 4u Math so that there is a compensation for performance
If you still don't understand one of the Admin's probably has a thread or something

 

[boringhousewife]

No I don't get it.
I shall go thread hunting.
thanks