The Savior
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After browsing the forum, I have noticed quite a few threads with people complaining about how humanities and arts get scaled down compared to science and maths. So to settle this debate, I am going to say "they don't". First of all subjects like earth and environmental science, agriculture and senior science scales worse than most humanity subjects. Still not convinced? Take biology, it scales worse than modern history. Still not convinced? Several humanities and arts scale even better than physics and chem, for instance music 2, music extension, economics and history extension. Don't do those subjects? That's ok. A mark of 92 in physics is scaled equally to 94 in modern history, 94 in legal studies, 94 in geography,'95 in business studies. Those 2 mark differences are hardly significant when you consider how much more difficult physics would be. Sure extension maths gets scaled up a lot but it is much more rigorous and intuitive than most other subjects, so it would be unfair If extension maths was scaled the same as "easier subjects" like visual arts. Please understand that I am not undermining the importance of humanities and arts but the rigour required for science and maths still needs to be rewarded. To sum up, doing humanities and arts does not disadvantage you in terms of scaling if you apply yourself.