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Uhm. That's an interesting way of phrasing your question. The short answer is... yes and no. Read this thread.

The Year 11 course is the preliminary course and covers different material. It's compulsory if you want to study English Extension 1 in Year 12. The Year 12 course isn't designed to be more difficult - it just follows on from where the preliminary course left off.

I was quite rigorous in my creation of the most recent spreadsheet - I can't recall whether I did the same for the other.

Actually, yes. Searching would have revealed them. I can only guarantee the accuracy of the 2004 spreadsheet. 2004 HSC - Distinguished Achievers List (1.6mb) Compiled by Lazarus. 2003 HSC - Distinguished Achievers List (1.4mb) Compiled by Huy. 2002 HSC - Distinguished Achievers...

An overall mark of 97-99 would still produce a scaled mark which would be on track for a UAI of 99+.

Dear Joel, Thank you for your wonderful comments! It's true, the website isn't nearly as accessible as it should be, or nearly as accessible as we'd like it to be. You've really hit the nail on the head. But in all seriousness, if you wanted to volunteer, you didn't need to go to the...

Ergh, it is always really difficult to answer these questions. Your assessment mark of 83 was justified by the exam marks received collectively by the students in your class and by your teacher's reckoning of your relative position amongst those students. Had your ranking been higher, you...

The marks submitted by the school to the Board are meant to accurately reflect the relative differences between students. Some teachers might tweak a few marks in order to better achieve this goal. Strictly speaking, they are not allowed to do this unless mention of it was made in the...

Brendan Nelson is the Federal Education Minister, not the State Education Minister. :) The former is Liberal, the latter is Labor. They don't really get along.

It would seem that your careers advisor is a little confused... Your school could add 10 marks to everyone's total and it wouldn't make a difference. (This could happen where a school marks particularly leniently.) The moderating procedures make assessment marks comparable between schools...

No. It doesn't mean that. Using Physics as an example, it does mean that students who received an aligned HSC mark of 47.5/50 had a scaled mark of 46.4/50. But this doesn't mean that their mark was scaled down, because scaling is applied to raw marks, not to the aligned marks reported by...

Closed....

SAM will be able to scale 2004 HSC marks very soon. :)

Unfortunately, no. :( The list was only introduced in 2002... and they don't seem to be making them retrospectively.

Eagles - none of that is true, sorry. You should dig around in the Technical Arcana forum if you want real answers.

Sorry... we were running some technical experiments. :) It shouldn't have lasted very long though.

I would be inclined to agree with Estel. Topping the combined Standard/Advanced candidature would result in a scaled mark of 100.

This thread seems to have irrevocably diverged from its intended topic. Ranting etc should be taken to the Non-School forum.

If an insult constitutes a "substantial ... failure to reach or maintain a reasonable standard of forum etiquette", then it is open to the moderators to give negative reputation to its author - irrespective of to whom the insult was directed. Whether the insult is directed to another user, to...

The Board has a duty to correct any mistakes of which it is aware.