Scaling
Aligning and scaling are two different things. Aligning occurs when the BOS turns raw exam marks into final exam marks, whilst scaling occurs when the UAC calculates your ATAR.
Does that mean you can essentially get two minor boosts to your mark?
thanks for the clarification. but is my original post true, that if you actually get full RAW marks for paper 2, you wouldn't benefit from the aligning process?
Well aligning can significantly boost your mark. For example, last year a raw mark of 94/120 in 2 unit was the cutoff for a band 6. Scaling however, doesnt boost your marks, it just gives them a weighting (really broad explanation)
Aligning and scaling are two different things. Aligning is administered by the Board whereas scaling is done so by UAC.
I see... this whole thing has never really made sense haha. Thanks.
It makes sense once u finish the HSC - at least thats what I noticed.
Aligning takes place for the whole paper. With english, paper one is out of 40% whilst paper 2 is out of 60%. So BOS aligns a mark out of 100 not 105. The impact of aligning reduces as the raw marks get higher, i.e. a raw mark of 50/100 aligns a lot more than a raw mark of 90/100. A raw mark of 60/60 in paper one could be aligned depending on your overall performance in both papers.
Tbqh I think they would align the different papers and sections separately.
No, when the UAC scale your marks to come up with your ATAR they use raw marks and not the aligned HSC mark. If you are thinking of it like ATAR calculators where you put in your hsc mark then yes, in a way you get two boosts (in good aligning and scaling subjects).
Its possible, although I'm not too sure. What I was trying to say is that both papers go though some form of aligning.