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HSC Stuff => New South Wales Technical Score Discussion => Topic started by: jamonwindeyer on August 12, 2016, 08:17:24 pm

Title: HSC Subjects with the Highest Average
Post by: jamonwindeyer on August 12, 2016, 08:17:24 pm
So I've found another cool nugget of information here!

The HSC subjects with the highest RAW mean (average) marks in 2015:
1- Music Extension (88%)
2- Music 2 (87%)
3- English Extension 1 (84%)
4- Maths Extension 2 (83%)
5- Maths Extension 1 (82%)

But how does scaling effect this? The 5 subjects with the highest SCALED average result:
1- Maths Extension 2 (86)
2- Maths Extension 1 (78)
3- English Extension 1 (73)
4- English Extension 2 (72)
5- Music Extension (72)

What about non Extension subjects? The 5 non-extension subjects with the highest SCALED average result:
1- Music 2 (68)
2- English Advanced (64)
3- Economics (64)
4- Chemistry (63)
5- Physics (61)

Note that ALL HSC MARKS SCALE DOWN! Don't let the numbers make you nervous, the ATAR calculation takes this into account.


Is that what you guys would expect?  :o
Title: Re: HSC Subjects with the Highest Average
Post by: RuiAce on August 12, 2016, 08:30:18 pm
Is that what you guys would expect?  :o

Sure, why not :P

An interesting story though. I think this was in 2013 or something but there was this guy in my school. Got a mid band 4 in physics and a mid-high band 5 in music 2.

Physics counted towards his ATAR...
Title: Re: HSC Subjects with the Highest Average
Post by: jamonwindeyer on August 12, 2016, 08:58:56 pm
Sure, why not :P

An interesting story though. I think this was in 2013 or something but there was this guy in my school. Got a mid band 4 in physics and a mid-high band 5 in music 2.

Physics counted towards his ATAR...

That doesn't surprise me at all, Music 2 scaling looks like it is less beneficial in that mid-high range :P