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It's not a mistake. A mark of 90 in Standard is far better than 90 in Advanced. Check out the corresponding state percentiles. You'd top the state with 90 in Standard but only be in the top 6% or so with 90 in Advanced. You can't just put in marks of 90 for everything and compare the...

A few technical clarifications on those clarifications... All students are included in the scaling procedures whether they want a UAI or not. Standard is not scaled lower than Advanced. They are scaled in exactly the same way. The fact that Standard has a lower scaled mean than Advanced is...

Society & Culture: http://www.boredofstudies.org/scaledmeans.php

I did consider doing that once. :) Ultimately, it would eventually be discovered, and then it would no longer be effective. But I don't really want to be deceiving people anyway.

See this thread.

Applying for a UAI is different to applying for a university place. Obviously, if less people apply for uni there's going to be less demand. This could influence cut-offs. But whether or not people apply for UAIs (i.e. whether or not they're told their rank) doesn't make a difference. I...

Everyone who completed the School Certificate with you back in Year 10 gets ranked.

Whether or not students apply for a UAI doesn't make any difference - they still have a rank, even if they're not told what it is. If the rumour is true, it would obviously have no effect on UAIs or cut-offs.

It's finished, but I haven't had time to actually do anything yet - my last exam is tomorrow. Everything will be sorted out after that!

It's really not worth it. If you're that close, there'd be almost no difference between your moderated marks.

We didn't do too badly; we're sixth, and the only non-European country among the top 10. The US is way below us, not to mention the UK: "The USA languished in 13th, while Britain was 29th - the lowest of the pre-expansion EU nations." 'TOP TEN COUNTRIES' 1 Ireland 2 Switzerland 3 Norway...

I don't know where you heard this, but it's not true. Every student has an examination mark (which is their own exam mark irrespective of how anyone else went) and a moderated assessment mark (which is the school assessment mark after it has been moderated to make it comparable with exam...

It's top 20, and only for courses taken by at least 10 000 students. For courses taken by less than 10 000 but at least 1 000 students, it's top 10 . Less than 1 000 students, it's top 5 only.

Ralph, it's probably easiest if you just see for yourself: http://www.boredofstudies.org/moderate.php You'll need to estimate the marks to be gained by your class, but that shouldn't be too much of a problem. You're certainly in a better position to do that than we are. (The layout...

In order to address those sorts of problems in this forum, we've implemented spoiler tags. They should be used to obfuscate anything that other readers might not wish to know! For example: Would produce: Hope it helps. :)

No... acmilan is slightly mistaken - the relative differences between students are taken into account.

You are entitled to request a full explanation from the subject coordinator or your principal, unless that explanation would allow you to determine the exact marks and/or ranks of other students. A satisfactory explanation should be able to be provided without divulging those details.

The marks should have been submitted correct to one decimal place. You should investigate the matter with your school.

If I understand you correctly... yes. SAM makes no attempt to 'reverse engineer' aligned HSC marks into the corresponding raw HSC marks. It skips this step and approximates scaled marks directly from the aligned marks. This is because almost no information is published regarding raw marks...

If you are absolutely first, it is certain that your moderated assessment mark will be equal to or greater than the top examination mark from your school. (The latter may occur in cases of illness/misadventure.) If there are n students ranked equal first, the top moderated assessment mark...