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# My study score for International Studies is 37. Which is good. Not fantastic, not awe-inspiring, not amazing, but still pretty good. If I can do that well in all my other subjects, I’ll get into the course I want with ease, anyway.

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  1. Congratulations! 37 is a great score. :) Is it a scale up or scale down subject?

  2. Scale up. In fact, it scales up by 3, which I was pretty pleased about when I found out. :D

  3. Perfect 40! Definite win. :)

  4. Well done! That’s a great start for next year.

  5. I have no idea what scale it’s on and what’s a good grade or not but 37 is a good number! lol

  6. A “study score” is more like a ranking. All students in a subject are ranked in order of their marks, and they get a number between 0 and 50 based on their position. They’re not uniformly distributed, either; it’s more of a bell curve. 68% of scores are between 23 and 37, so basically, 16% of people beat me. ;)

    Because some subjects attract smarter students than others, subjects are scaled up and down to compensate. IS students are a smart lot, making it more difficult to get a good rank. In a subject where there are fewer smart people, it’s easier to get a good rank. Before calculating the ENTER (pretty much the sole criterion for Uni admission here), study scores are scaled up and down based on the difficulty of achieving each rank in each subject. For IS, on average, students who get 35 in IS got 38 on all their other subjects. That would indicate that a 35 in IS is equivalent to a 38, so IS is scaled up 3.

    That’s a very long-winded explanation, and I don’t blame you if you don’t want to read it all! Simply put, 37 is pretty good, but by no means spectacular.

    Lastly, thanks all of you for your congratulations. :)

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