Okay fine, the scaled means are much different ==;;
I guess you just learn a lot shittier in Standard than you do in Advanced, explaining the difference in HSC result? Pfft.
Btw Economics scales well, as well as/better than Physics (which is one of the 'omg holy shiz good scaling combo' subjects)
Edit: Found this,
lukebennet said:
no. they use paper 1 to determine the standards of the people in both courses as a way of standardising the scaling for the modules paper for standard.
^^ Does not mean they are scaled 'the same'.
Re-edit: Nvm found this
uaibook_2007 said:
English Standard and English Advanced are scaled as a single group.
Jesus fuck I just proved myself wrong.