Scaling FAQ

[dreamer7]

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Originally Posted by dagwoman

dreamer7, I love your picture.

Why, thank you!

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[benny.a]

How about if your best 8 units are:
- English advanced
- Biology
- Physics
- Chemistry

and then another of your best units is extension 1 which is only one unit. If they add one more 2 unit subject that will equal 11 units, how will determine ur UAI?

[Lazarus]

A 'two unit' course is made up of two units... it's possible for only one of them to count.

Involves halving your mark.

[Lazarus]

1. Yes.

2. Yes.

3. Unclear, not enough information, try SAM.

[Seidel1711]

yeh thanx man
lots of help cheers

[Cheap Thrills]

this question has probably been asked a million times before, but they told us at school that if say for example, i get a raw assessment mark of 94 and the rest of my class gets marks of say 60s or 70s, that my moderated assessment mark will be lowered to fit in with my class better. is that true?

[webby234]

Originally Posted by Cheap Thrills

this question has probably been asked a million times before, but they told us at school that if say for example, i get a raw assessment mark of 94 and the rest of my class gets marks of say 60s or 70s, that my moderated assessment mark will be lowered to fit in with my class better. is that true?

No. As long as you perform to the same standard in the exam as you have during the year you will get what you deserve. If you are ranked first and then get the best exam mark from your class your moderated assessment mark will equal the aligned exam mark

[ogmzergrush]

Originally Posted by buchanan

Here's the technical scaling committee doing their thing - Shakespeare's way:

Macbeth, Act IV, Scene 1

A dark Cave. In the middle, a Caldron Boiling.

[Thunder. Enter the three Witches.]

FIRST WITCH.
Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd.

SECOND WITCH.
Thrice; and once the hedge-pig whin'd.

THIRD WITCH.
Harpier cries:--"tis time, 'tis time.

FIRST WITCH.
Round about the caldron go;
In the poison'd entrails throw.--
Toad, that under cold stone,
Days and nights has thirty-one
Swelter'd venom sleeping got,
Boil thou first i' the charmed pot!

ALL.
Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire, burn; and caldron, bubble.

SECOND WITCH.
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the caldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg, and howlet's wing,--
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

ALL.
Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire, burn; and caldron, bubble.

THIRD WITCH.
Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,
Witch's mummy, maw and gulf
Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark,
Root of hemlock digg'd i' the dark,
Liver of blaspheming Jew,
Gall of goat, and slips of yew
Sliver'd in the moon's eclipse,
Nose of Turk, and Tartar's lips,
Finger of birth-strangl'd babe
Ditch-deliver'd by a drab,--
Make the gruel thick and slab:
Add thereto a tiger's chaudron,
For the ingredients of our caldron.

ALL.
Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire, burn; and caldron, bubble.

SECOND WITCH.
Cool it with a baboon's blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.

(Video)

Hey wow it's that bald asshole again! sup man, long time no see! How's life in the kiddy-fiddling lane, if you know what I mean?!

[johnnypaul]

I'm confused about UAI. From what I have read the UAI is based on raw marks, are these the raw marks from the actual HSC exam or from School assessments?

[jemsta]

have a read here...
http://www.uac.edu.au/admin/uai.html#how
basically to determine your UAI, they take the best 10 units, thus its out of an aggregate of 500.
For a subject for example, after you completed the hsc exam, you get 3 columns...moderated assessment mark, hsc exam mark and your subject mark. Those marks that you get are all aligned, and not raw.
Then BOS would use all your raw marks and scale accordingly to how you went, so basically everything hinges on the actual hsc exam.
The school assessments is merely used to determine your final rank.

[SoulSearcher]

Originally Posted by jemsta

have a read here...
http://www.uac.edu.au/admin/uai.html#how
basically to determine your UAI, they take the best 10 units, thus its out of an aggregate of 500.
For a subject for example, after you completed the hsc exam, you get 3 columns...moderated assessment mark, hsc exam mark and your subject mark. Those marks that you get are all aligned, and not raw.
Then BOS would use all your raw marks and scale accordingly to how you went, so basically everything hinges on the actual hsc exam.
The school assessments is merely used to determine your final rank.

Well, best 2 units of english, then the next best 8 units out of the remaining units.

[jemsta]

yep thanks for clearing that.

[wow!]

"Raw marks, not aligned marks are used in the calculation of scaled marks and the UAI."

Am I correct in thinking that
1) the average of the raw exam mark and the moderated school assessment mark is calculated to produce the "raw HSC mark" that you are referring to above?
2) If so, then what are aligned marks? And what are scaled marks?
3) What do they do to your raw HSC marks to calculate your UAI?

Thanks...I'm confused

[SoulSearcher]

Originally Posted by wow!

"Raw marks, not aligned marks are used in the calculation of scaled marks and the UAI."

Am I correct in thinking that
1) the average of the raw exam mark and the moderated school assessment mark is calculated to produce the "raw HSC mark" that you are referring to above?
2) If so, then what are aligned marks? And what are scaled marks?
3) What do they do to your raw HSC marks to calculate your UAI?

Thanks...I'm confused

I'll try to answer the questions as well as I can.

1) From what I've read, yes, the raw HSC mark is the average of the raw exam mark and the moderated school assessment mark that is calculated for the student.

2) The aligned mark they are referring to here is the HSC exam mark that you are given by the Board of Studies; this mark has been generated from the raw exam mark in accordance with the outcomes and standards set by the Board of Studies as to how well the student attained the outcomes and to what level they have fulfilled them. The scaled mark is the raw exam mark after it has undergone the process of scaling, and in combination with the moderated school assessment mark, this is the one which is used to calculate your scaled aggregate mark for the UAI.

3) The raw HSC exam marks undergo the process of scaling and is then combined and averaged with the moderated school assessment mark to produce a scaled mark for that subject. This scaled mark is then used to calculate your UAI; using the scaled mark of 2 units of English, then the best 8 units out of your remaining units and adding these scaled marks together to create a scaled aggregate mark out of 500. This then allows the Technical Committee on Scaling (the board that calculates the UAI) to rank the students and calculate their UAI.

If you have any queries about that explanation, post and I'll try my best to answer it (I'll eventually clear up this post, it can be made a lot clearer, plus the calculation of the UAI explanation is very simplified, but the gist of it is correct.)

[w-tian]

is there an updated version of scaling? it would be very helpful if there were...

say if i were doing 11units - 4 2unit subjects and 3u maths, how would they choose my best 8units then?