History student needs help... (1 Viewer)

[L. Mandrake]

Hey all, as per above, I placed first internally at a decent school in Modern, Ancient, and Extension History, but people keep telling me they're counting on me to get good marks for the school and bring them up. like how does this even work?, I'm really confused, and I don't want to let/bring anybody down. I don't do maths because I focus on history (clearly), so scaling, and alignment and raw maks whatever it is, is actually Greek to me. If anybody could explain it to me that would be amazing and I'd be so grateful.

 

[pilot_djeddie]

Hey all, as per above, I placed first internally at a decent school in Modern, Ancient, and Extension History, but people keep telling me they're counting on me to get good marks for the school and bring them up. like how does this even work?, I'm really confused, and I don't want to let/bring anybody down. I don't do maths because I focus on history (clearly), so scaling, and alignment and raw maks whatever it is, is actually Greek to me. If anybody could explain it to me that would be amazing and I'd be so grateful.

AH MY FELLOW HISTORY NERD (except that I just do Modern and Ext.), I think that as the person who is ranked first, the higher your marks are, the better the distribution of the marks I believe. That's because the HSC acts as a "mark distributor" in which the amount of marks you and your cohort receive is based on how well everyone performs. I'll attach an Eddie Woo video that best explains it:

 

[L. Mandrake]

Thank you for that! Eddie Woo should be the HSC history mascot at this point. Why can't the bloody curriculum people at my school tell it to us like this... makes a bit more sense now...