scaling

[lisafaustina]

so in 2007 if you got 35 you got 45 scaled, 2008 you got 44 and 2009 you got 43. is it some sort of a trend of scaling less and less?

[Chavi]

Yes. It sucks, but everyone is in the same boat.

[lisafaustina]

so is it gonna be scaled less  this year....this sucks..

[Chavi]

not necessarily - otherwise we'll eventually see a Spesh 50 stay at 50 - and then there'll be no incentive to take Spesh over methods (other than enjoyment).

[m@tty]

It's not possible for Spesh scaling to be the same as Methods.
It's one of their policies. The gist of it is for a certain raw score the Methods scaled score must be greater than the Further scaled score; and the Specialist scaled score must be greater than the Methods scaled score.

So I think Spesh will always scale over 50

But to address your original question: we can't really be sure. A few reasons than it may not continue in the downward trend - it has already decreased significantly over the past few years and is approaching the scaling for Methods, and; have more weak students (who drain scaling) actually picked Spesh up? I don't think so, but obviously this is from the very small population which I know of personally. But yeah, we'll just have to wait will Dec 11 or 12 to see. (Scaling report / aggregate tables are released a couple of days before results.)

[Chavi]

On a side note, Methods used to scale above 50
http://www.vtac.edu.au/pdf/stats/2001-2002/section-H.pdf

A 50 scaled to 51 in that year. (And Spec used to scale to 55 consistently each year)

[luken93]

Although Spesh scaling does go down, if you plug your SS into atarcalc then you will see that:
In '08 Methods: 35->42, Spesh: 35->44
In '09 Methods: 35->41, Spesh: 35->43

Although they have both gone down, the overall ATAR score (with a 35 in my subjects that haven't changed scaling over time)
In '08: 91.00
In '09: 91.35

So although they have both gone down equating to a loss of 2 aggregate, the overall ATAR has risen, so does it really matter that Spesh goes down?

[kyzoo]

On a side note, Methods used to scale above 50
http://www.vtac.edu.au/pdf/stats/2001-2002/section-H.pdf

A 50 scaled to 51 in that year. (And Spec used to scale to 55 consistently each year)

OH MY GOD METHODS SCALING ABOVE 50 O.O THAT IS MY DREAM COME TRUE