Recent content by rottendodo

Is it available throughout the whole campus? Reason I ask is I'm going this year, and wondering if its worth me buying a laptop.

no luck, ive found some stuff about moderating in general, that is adjusting between schools (ive heard that story about a billion times), and also low band cutoffs :S but nothign really I find relevant.

Well actually, 4u maths is my best subject (well, maths), and I am enjoying it (hell I admited it!) so I didnt choose it for the scaling. I was just getting worried, especially entering marks into SAM..... I had to be generous to myself to get 90. and I was expecting more... peh.. moderation...

I was VERY happy to read this thread, as now I know that raw marks are adjusted considerably for this subject to get the aligned HSC mark. I always had a suspicion this happened after trying to calculate my UAI going off my projected HSC mark (IM in year 12 now) and 'realising' that 4u maths'...

does anyone know If some raw marks align better before scaling?

Is that 15% of chemistry students or 15% of teh general student population? top 15% in Chemistry is probably actually harder than top 8% in IT becasue of the general quality of the students in either. To get an 'aligned mark' I know you have to adjust for what school and rank your in, but will...

What do you mean by pre-aligned? does that mean that each subject goes through some kind of scaling before this happens?

Hi guys, first post here. I was having a go at SAM, trying to work out what subject I should drop out fo Chemistry or IT. Im ranked second in both subjects. whats annoyign me is that an 87 in Chem isnt as good as a 91 in IT... i'l say it again.. what the? Chemistry is a proper science, hard as...