Does Geography scale your UAI down a lot?

[juleswinnfield]

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Originally Posted by jason21

Geograhy doesn't scale down at all. However, it doesn't scale up neither. So if u want a UAI of 93 and u do 3unit maths and adv eng im guessing that if you get an average of around 80-85 u should be fine as long as u go pretty well in english and maths.

And if ur referring to the prelim geog course being boring, it is. But HSC geog is so much more interesting.

u absolute fool... u may have just destroyed someones UAI
2007: 45/50 in geography gets scaled down to 38/50
in 2009 the only way to not get scaled down is to get above 97 or around the high 90s, gettin the average is like getting raped. dont ever comment on something u havent done research on especially when the person requesting advice takes it seriously.

[Bourne05]

As long as you do well in your other subjects I think it should be fine. I did geography, chemistry, biology, earth and environmental science, maths and advanced english and got 96.35.

[shanshan6]

Originally Posted by abbylee

Our geography teacher seams to think that geography will get you a BIG PHAT UAI.
she tells us all the time.
she basically thinks were gunna ace it.
so aim high. Phat UAI.
it should do you good.

later;

HAHAHAHA.
Mine says the same thing, AbFab :P
Big Phat UAI
BPU.

anyway. theres no use worrying about what mark your going to get.
all you need to worry about is knowing your stuff.

[shanshan6]

I hate the whole Scale thing.
You do the same amount of work in everything.
and a 70% is a 70% no matter what subject your doing.
Its all at HSC level so why does Physics ect scale better.
gay gay gay

[shanshan6]

Originally Posted by juleswinnfield

u absolute fool... u may have just destroyed someones UAI
2007: 45/50 in geography gets scaled down to 38/50
in 2009 the only way to not get scaled down is to get above 97 or around the high 90s, gettin the average is like getting raped. dont ever comment on something u havent done research on especially when the person requesting advice takes it seriously.

Way I see it.
noone really understands how it works anyway.
Posting on here can give you a general idea, but i dont think anyone takes the advice given seriously, because its written by someone who has about the same amount of knowledge as you.
so just do your best and you might be suprised about your mark. because obviously noone knows exactly how much a mark is scaled up or down.

[davox]

Originally Posted by lyounamu

What is your source of information? It is not true. Absolutely not. 45/50 = 90/100 (aligned mark) in Geography is 38/50 = 76/100 scaled mark. This is mcuh worse than both English (Advanced) and English (Standard), Economics, Legal Studies. It is possibly higher than Business Studies by the way.

My source of information is 2007 Scaling Report and you can download from the UAC website. It is not even in the vicinity of the scaled mark of Mathematics Extension 1.

But thats 2007 scaling. Scaling changes every year, based on how well the state goes. Theres no point in relyig upon 2007 scaling, when that is irrevelant. eg. last year standard english got scaled HIGHER than advanced english.
Thats so stupid, why would you even bother looking at previous scaling when it depends on the state in that given year.