Shoom said:
ok, now im confused wtf was my chem teacher on about.
Ok, here we go:
You do you HSC paper then markers mark that paper. Let's say you got 80/120 in maths - that's called raw mark.
Once you get that mark, markers compare that mark with the moderation for that subject and give you what's called ALIGNED mark. This aligned mark gets sent to you in the HSC exam result paper.
However, from that raw mark, your scaled mark is derived. Scaling of the subject is different and the scaled mark for each subject will be obviously different (even in the situation where you get the same aligned mark for all your subjects). Then this scaled mark is used by UAC to derive your UAI. 10 top scaled units are selected and added and get you an aggregate of 500 scaled marks. Then your UAI comes out, ta-dah!!
But note that you never get to learn the scaled marks. Only marks YOU KNOW are aligned marks