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