Hey guys, chill the frack down.
Scaling reflects the level of competition for a particular study.
I'm of the opinion that scaling doesn't reward difficulty or hard work directly. Some humanities subjects, I'd argue, as just as hard as spesh in terms of mastering the content, but not as highly scaled.
But VTAC/VCAA tries their best. Scaling does even out the playing field when it comes to VCE as a competition. If you're competing against smart people in a study with relatively easy content, the scaling would go up more. If you're competing against less intelligent students in a study with difficult content, it'd probably even scale down. It's not a perfect system but it's the best we have and I'd like to see anyone come up with a completely fair and quantitative system (because no one wants to assess 40-50,000 students one by one).
Paulsterio was right in saying that a 99.95 is possible without doing spesh. It's debatable whether the benefits of spesh are decreasing, given that this year it scaled up 11 or something in that bracket, but it still is possible.
And maybe getting a high study score in language is much harder and requires more work, but all that is qualitative and, generally for most people on AN, one would pick a subject knowing it's pros and cons already. So I say just suck it up. I chose my subjects knowing exactly how much they would scale and yeah, it annoyed me slightly knowing I'd have to probably work just as hard in something like philosophy or literature and not get the rewards in scaling, but then you move on and accept that it's the best system we can have at the moment.
/end rant.
(sorry, scaling discussions annoy me. it shouldn't be that important)
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