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[k21251985]

I am a year 12 student who got a hsc mark for music 1 as 78.I am wondering how and why when i went on Sam yesterday that if i did get the mark of 78 last year i would be beating about 50% of canditiates.If i got 78 out of 100 as a rankwhy does it say i am beating about 50% when my rank is not 50 out of 100.
and how come it is so low? and not beating 78 and what marks do i need to get into music in universitiies in NSW
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phil

 

[KeypadSDM]

That's kinda cool, your rank at your school is the same as your HSC mark.

Anyway, you can have a school rank of 78, yet still be beating 50% of the HSC candidates. Think of James Ruse, you're ranked dead last there, but you still beat 80% of the state in said subject.

 

[Plebeian]

I don't think you interpreted him quite properly Keypad?

phil your mark of 78 is not a rank, it's just an aligned mark fitted to the BOS band standards. A mark of 78 doesn't mean you beat 78% of people. For example, 95 for English Adv this year was the top 0.7% of the state. That correlation is only true of UAI (a UAI of 80 means you beat 80% of people, etc.). There is no real correlation between aligned mark and how many people you beat because this changes from year to year.