Getting 99 with humanities subjects

[Professor Polonsky]

THIS YEAR
THIS YEAR

Damn it.. LOL

Thought so.

Still, why take the GAT seriously?

[HossRyams]

Thought so.

Still, why take the GAT seriously?

I guess to be on the safe side.  Who knows, maybe I'll do something crazy and will require a derived score LOLOL
Maybe I'll just completely neglect the maths section since it's irrelevant for me now, and spend the entire time on the other two muahaha

Okay enough thinking ahead and going back to studying for nowwww!

[paulsterio]

I think there are a couple of points which I think need to be raised.

Firstly, scaling isn't a random process, it's not like somebody sits there and says subjects A, B and C should be scaled up by X, Y and Z. It's a statistically determined amount which comes from comparing the strength of the cohorts with the GAT (as far as I know). Although I'm not an expert, what I think happens is that subjects which have a stronger cohort (i.e. a cohort which does better in the GAT) will get scaled up more than a subject with a weaker cohort.

So even though we might think that subjects such as Specialist Maths gets scaled up too much, it's not like someone is sitting there and deciding to scale it up that much. Personally though, I still believe that no subjects should be scaling beyond 50, because that is actually quite unfair. Also, the "LOTE bonus" is also an issue, although I know the government does it to encourage people to study a LOTE, I'm quite interested to see how many of those who complete VCE-level LOTE actually go on and pursue further studies in it and actually use it later on in life.

[katykins]

I know a girl from school who did economics, psych, further maths, english, legal studies and something else and got 98.something. she got two 48's mid 40's for the rest of her subjects except further maths.

[jeanweasley]

I know a girl from school who did economics, psych, further maths, english, legal studies and something else and got 98.something. she got two 48's mid 40's for the rest of her subjects except further maths.

Wow. That's great.

[Gavishka J]

Hey there,

I know this is pretty late, but its definitely doable to get 99 with humanities subs

I got 99.05 doing Eco, Legal, Accounting and Politics in 2012, and thats after choking pretty badly on my legal exam, so I think I could have done better

So its certainly possible, you should need to work pretty hard
If you're actually interested in the subjects you're doing, its not too difficult

[jeanweasley]

Hey there,

I know this is pretty late, but its definitely doable to get 99 with humanities subs

I got 99.05 doing Eco, Legal, Accounting and Politics in 2012, and thats after choking pretty badly on my legal exam, so I think I could have done better

So its certainly possible, you should need to work pretty hard
If you're actually interested in the subjects you're doing, its not too difficult

Cool, thanks for the vote of confidence.