Can someone please tell me how much specialist has scaled in the past? like in other states. has a 76% go up to a 96% in the past ? or yeah? Thank you!
It works a little differently in other states. For example, in Victoria, overall subject scores are out of 50. In 2018, a raw study score of 30 (which is the average) in Specialist Maths resulted in a scaled score of 41.
These numbers probably don't mean heaps to you because a) the system is entirely different, and b) they're not out of 100. But I think it's important to realise that even for QCE, subject scores aren't the same as percentages. For example, getting an average of 76% in Specialist Maths doesn't mean you'll get a subject score of 76 for Specialist Maths necessarily.
Ultimately, even if Spesh
did scale that much in QCE, I don't think it's really worth considering. Getting high or low scaling doesn't reward or punish you; instead, it just negates a very competitive or less competitive cohort. What scaling does is actually equal the playing field across subjects, meaning you can simply choose subjects you enjoy, are passionate about, are good at, or need as university pre-requisites.
In general, I'd encourage you not to give too much weight to scaling in subject selection, particularly given we have absolutely zero relevant data to go off.