Are statistics showing that is it getting more competitive?

[kenhung123]

Year by year is it getting harder to obtain a certain ENTER/ATAR according to the corresponding aggregate?

[humph]

No, other way around (because languages and spesh aren't scaling nearly as high).

[*ryan777*]

what about in certain subjects?
is obtaining an ss of x in any given subject getting harder or easier?

[IntoTheNewWorld]

I think this year was really easy to get high compared to last year. According to ENTER calc I would've only got 97. something, instead of 98.2

[QuantumJG]

No it's the other way around. If I did VCE in 09 according to my aggregate I would have got a 90.80 instead of a 89.45.

[kyzoo]

99.9 was 205.6 this year, 206.4 last year

[kenhung123]

Hmm so its solely due to language and spesh scaling?

[NE2000]

I think mostly it's to do with spesh and languages. A few years ago spesh went 50 --> 55, now only 50 --> 52.

[m@tty]

Hmm so its solely due to language and spesh scaling?

It shows how reliant most people are on these subjects to attain high end scores.

[the.watchman]

Hmm so its solely due to language and spesh scaling?

It shows how reliant most people are on these subjects to attain high end scores.

And how many duds do it for the scaling...

[*ryan777*]

Hmm so its solely due to language and spesh scaling?

It shows how reliant most people are on these subjects to attain high end scores.

And how many duds do it for the scaling...

+1
i swear 90% of my jap class did it for scaling

[kyzoo]

Hmm so its solely due to language and spesh scaling?

It shows how reliant most people are on these subjects to attain high end scores.

It's logical that people will rely on 50+ scaling to attain high end scores, 50+ > 50.

[NE2000]

It might be relevant that two years ago, when the class of 2009 were selecting their subjects, it was impossible to get a 99.95 without scaling beyond 50. Of course most people looking this high would be able to handle the difficulty of the 50+ scaling subjects anyway.....

[kenhung123]

So if you didn't choose spesh and or a language (latin, chinese, japanese, classical greek) then 99.95 is out of range

[the.watchman]

Well, you could get 50 for five subjects and 5.5 in a uni subject and get 210.5 aggregate.
But it depends what the 99.95 cut-off aggregate was.