I don't think so IMO - 40ish% is enough to show Band E2 competencies in MX2 which is why it squarely lands in the 60s. Alignment is not about difficulty but about the band descriptors (see below).
Yes, but because the final mark & ATAR are all important for competitive Uni entry, this acts as a disincentive for students to study maths extn 2. No wonder a past HSC maths chief examiner bemoans (in another forum) how the scaling system encourages able mathematicians to choose easier options than what they are capable of doing.
The scaling argument in the media is generally put towards capablestudents that do general maths instead of 2U maths so they have a shot at getting close to full marks. However this is being alleviated with the new common content in 2U and General which means it’ll have a similar scaling/alignment relationship as English std/adv
I did understand that 60 for 4U maths doesn’t correspond to an ATAR of 60 - aggregating the ten best units is the same as during my time. The bit I‘m unclear about is whether the aligned mark for maths Extn 2 is further scaled before being added to the aggregate from which the ATAR is calculated.
Yes, it is further scaled. Alignment gets the raw marks to the right bands (band 6 means a level of achievement stated by NESA). These aligned marks are sent to UAC and are scaled with respect to each subject.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure E2 is 50 - 68? So, I'm just curious as to why you've said that it's squarely in the 60s as it might potentially be in the 50s too. If it is squarely in the 60s, that would be good lol.
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Oh right, thank you. Makes more sense now, so - the aligned marks are the marks you would see on your text message of the results after your HSC?
Text message is the aligned results.
then how come in talent 100, it goes for me "your mathematics extension 1 is lifting your atar, but English advanced is dragging it down devote more time to English advanced" and they should give more clarity to what you put in there
it's a ploy to get enrolments....
It could give a brief idea of how you could perform in the actual HSC exam if your performance has been of consistently high standards in the past HSC practice papers, provided the questions in the actual paper are of similar type/difficulty, allowing you to perform at a similar/identical level to what you were able to achieve when completing past exam papers. In such a case, completing and marking past HSC exam papers can be considered a valid (to an extent - as we never know what can happen) way of predicting your HSC exam mark.
That 90% will be your raw mark - have a look and see what that aligns to on the raw marks database. Type this aligned mark into the hsc calculator and that should yield a decent estimate.
If this is for trials, assuming your aiming for an E4 (Band 6) in 4U, then aiming for a raw mark of ~75 can get u that
