Accelerants affecting scalingq (1 Viewer)

[Giant Lobster]

See how whether a subject gets scaled good or bad depends on the quality of canditature and that itself is decided upon how well the students do in other subjects - we all know that.

But what about accelerants doing HSC courses in year 11? Its not so much a big deal if they were doing common courses like ext2 maths. But what if they were doing a language where only say 3 ppl do for that year? Then each student's result in other subjects affect the scaling of that subject significantly. Now, since the accelerant is in yr 11, is only doing the language, whether he is good or crap at his other subjects do not affect the scaling of his language subject. Now, if the accelerant is exceptional at that particlar language (perhaps mother tongue) then wouldnt they take advantage of the high scaling established by the other few students that did remarkably well in all their courses?

 

[Lazarus]

With very few students, there is likely to be a high degree of variability within the candidature.

It's possible for a high scaled standard deviation to undo the effect of a high scaled mean... particularly if you're below the average within that course.

 

[Giant Lobster]

no i mean like, accelerants doing highly scaled subjects. If they are shit at everything else, but good at that subject, and that subject scales really high cos the 3 other ppl doing it are good at everything else, then practically the accelerant got a free meal right? BOS has no way to compensate for that to my current knowledge.