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[Wei]

is a top 5 percent in state a 42 raw score?

[ReVeL]

Roughly 8% get 40+

Roughly 2% get 45+

So yes, somewhere around 42-43 would be the top 5% in the state.

[NE2000]

I thought I'd just use this thread to also ask:

What sort of exam scores do you need in spesh to get high 40s (eg. 48, 49, 50)?

[QuantumJG]

I thought I'd just use this thread to also ask:

What sort of exam scores do you need in spesh to get high 40s (eg. 48, 49, 50)?

Nothing less than high A+'s. I'm pretty sure once you hit 40 the scaled score nearly hits 50. People who do spesh and get a high 40 are pretty much accomplished at maths (that is at VCE level - but first year uni maths and potentially second year would be pretty easy for them).

[humph]

I thought I'd just use this thread to also ask:

What sort of exam scores do you need in spesh to get high 40s (eg. 48, 49, 50)?

Nothing less than high A+'s. I'm pretty sure once you hit 40 the scaled score nearly hits 50. People who do spesh and get a high 40 are pretty much accomplished at maths (that is at VCE level - but first year uni maths and potentially second year would be pretty easy for them).

No, first year uni maths and second year aren't easy, even for high achievers There are plenty of people out there who get 45+ in spec but only 60-70 in UMEP Maths. Let alone second year maths...
But yeah, people who get 45+ in spec usually understand pretty much everything in the course very well and make very few errors.

[QuantumJG]

I thought I'd just use this thread to also ask:

What sort of exam scores do you need in spesh to get high 40s (eg. 48, 49, 50)?

Nothing less than high A+'s. I'm pretty sure once you hit 40 the scaled score nearly hits 50. People who do spesh and get a high 40 are pretty much accomplished at maths (that is at VCE level - but first year uni maths and potentially second year would be pretty easy for them).

No, first year uni maths and second year aren't easy, even for high achievers There are plenty of people out there who get 45+ in spec but only 60-70 in UMEP Maths. Let alone second year maths...
But yeah, people who get 45+ in spec usually understand pretty much everything in the course very well and make very few errors.

Ok I'm sorry for how my answer came out.

What I was meaning is that people who do maths in uni after VCE (who got 45+ for spesh) will find first year maths fairly easy. I wasn't refering to UMEP, gee doing 3 maths in year 12 would be freakin' hard, but, just like specialist maths students have an advantage with methods, UMEP students would have an advantage with spesh.

[NE2000]

I thought I'd just use this thread to also ask:

What sort of exam scores do you need in spesh to get high 40s (eg. 48, 49, 50)?

Nothing less than high A+'s. I'm pretty sure once you hit 40 the scaled score nearly hits 50. People who do spesh and get a high 40 are pretty much accomplished at maths (that is at VCE level - but first year uni maths and potentially second year would be pretty easy for them).

Yeah I guess you need high A+s for most subjects. I was just wondering what sort of marks, like how many can you drop approximately :S

On the topic of high 40s and uni maths. It's probably true for many cases, but then again the the spesh course really isn't all that difficult with enough practice. I'm sure a lot of the people that get 45+ in Methods could get 45+ in spesh with a bit of hard work and a bit of luck. That's really why I ask my original question too. A few years (year 9) back I thought spesh was ultra hard and everyone lost tons of marks on the final exam, but having gone through it now I wonder how many marks the 48-50 people do lose normally.

[humph]

I thought I'd just use this thread to also ask:

What sort of exam scores do you need in spesh to get high 40s (eg. 48, 49, 50)?

Nothing less than high A+'s. I'm pretty sure once you hit 40 the scaled score nearly hits 50. People who do spesh and get a high 40 are pretty much accomplished at maths (that is at VCE level - but first year uni maths and potentially second year would be pretty easy for them).

No, first year uni maths and second year aren't easy, even for high achievers There are plenty of people out there who get 45+ in spec but only 60-70 in UMEP Maths. Let alone second year maths...
But yeah, people who get 45+ in spec usually understand pretty much everything in the course very well and make very few errors.

Ok I'm sorry for how my answer came out.

What I was meaning is that people who do maths in uni after VCE (who got 45+ for spesh) will find first year maths fairly easy. I wasn't refering to UMEP, gee doing 3 maths in year 12 would be freakin' hard, but, just like specialist maths students have an advantage with methods, UMEP students would have an advantage with spesh.

Hmmm not necessarily - I know a lot of smart kids who failed (!) first year maths at uni. I think the difference is a lot of high-achieving maths students are used to getting near-perfect marks with minimal effort, and plenty are surprised that it's not like that anymore at university.