no, it was becos they were afraid if some not-so-good ppl did it it would scale everyone's internal marks down.
Yeh, some ppl applied, and then dropped out a fortnight later, yet the maths dept didn't bother replacing the dropouts, and some who really wanted to get in din because the yr11 3u yrly was so blody hard. Like the top mark was 86% or somethin...i can't remember...