does "scaling" have anything to do with how hard the exam was? (1 Viewer)

[sghguos]

does "scaling" have anything to do with how hard the exam was?

I heard it was only about how your cohort went as a whole in other subjects (especially english).

 

[brent012]

Cohort as in the whole state, yes. But that's often going under the assumption that HSC marks are using in the scaling process. In practise it's going to be impossible to distinguish between a hard exam and a hard subject when it comes to scaling. The marks across subjects are all compared between/across each other and what not and in the end the scaling of a subject is pretty much determined by how hard the subject, as well as that particular years exam, was because of that.

 

[sghguos]

Cohort as in the whole state, yes. But that's often going under the assumption that HSC marks are using in the scaling process. In practise it's going to be impossible to distinguish between a hard exam and a hard subject when it comes to scaling. The marks across subjects are all compared between/across each other and what not and in the end the scaling of a subject is pretty much determined by how hard the subject, as well as that particular years exam, was because of that.

So your saying in conclusion, how hard the subject or how hard the exam was does affect the scaling of a subject instead of how well your subject cohort went.

Im sorry im confused.

 

[sghguos]

can you dumb it down for me

 

[brent012]

So your saying in conclusion, how hard the subject or how hard the exam was does affect the scaling of a subject instead of how well your subject cohort went.

Im sorry im confused.

That's alright. I'm looking at it in a simplified, logical kind of way and suggesting that the difference between marks, as a whole, across subjects is solely because of the subject or exams difficulty and that it means that those factors do affect the scaling.

 

[sghguos]

That's alright. I'm looking at it in a simplified, logical kind of way and suggesting that the difference between marks, as a whole, across subjects is solely because of the subject or exams difficulty and that it means that those factors do affect the scaling.

ahhhhh... so your saying they affect it "indirectly". Thx.