chem scaling

[kdgamz]

seeing as the chemistry mid year exam was pretty hard...and assuming the end of year exam will only be slightly easier..does that mean that chemistry will scale up by a higher amount compared to last year??

[kurrymuncher]

No

[Gloamglozer]

seeing as the chemistry mid year exam was pretty hard...and assuming the end of year exam will only be slightly easier..does that mean that chemistry will scale up by a higher amount compared to last year??

Scaling is dependent on how other Chem students do on their other subjects, not by the difficulty of one or two Chem exams.

[arthurk]

i did not know that
how would that system work
what would make something scale up or scale down?

[vexx]

i did not know that
how would that system work
what would make something scale up or scale down?

Where the student competition in a study is strong, VCE Study Scores need to be adjusted upwards; otherwise students in that study would be disadvantaged. Similarly, in a study where the student competition is weaker, the Study Scores need to be adjusted downwards; otherwise students doing that study would be advantaged.

So with chemistry, since the competition is high, it is scaled quite a bit (about 3~5). Since the exam was a difficult one, all it meant was the A+ cutoff was lower then that of the previous exams.

[m@tty]

Where competition is strong, overall people attain lower study scores than in their other studies. That is why scaling needs to take place.

[kdgamz]

...damn