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Title: How much does specialist math get scaled up to?
Post by: Rose34 on March 10, 2021, 11:38:10 pm

Hello,

How much does specialist math get scaled up to?

Thanks in advance.

Title: Re: How much does specialist math get scaled up to?
Post by: Owlbird83 on March 11, 2021, 10:46:46 am

From the scaling report it looks like it scales:
20 --> 27
25 --> 35
30 --> 41
35 --> 47
40 --> 51
45 --> 54
50 --> 55

Here's a link to the scaling report from 2020, which tells you how all the subjects were scaled.

Title: Re: How much does specialist math get scaled up to?
Post by: Joseph41 on March 11, 2021, 11:04:42 am

In addition, note that scaling is not always the same from year to year, and depends on performance of that specific cohort in that specific year. :)

EDIT: But data from previous years tend to provide a fairly accurate prediction most of the time.

Title: Re: How much does specialist math get scaled up to?
Post by: mabajas76 on March 11, 2021, 07:36:52 pm

Whilst I highly recommend specialist as a subject, make sure u don't do it just for scaling :p, also my teacher said it got to 13 a few years ago so whilst it is very unlikely still a possibility if your years competition/difficulty is way higher than normal.