Do school marks really matter?? (1 Viewer)

[EMKsquared]

Hi im currently doing my HSC and was wondering how much of an impact school marks really have. Say i come first for a subject and get a mark of ~93 and the receding marks are ~90, 88, 87, 86, 85, 80,75 etc (something like that). Say in the HSC i were to get 95, and the others got their marks take 1 or 2. Would i get my mark since im first or would i get pulled down???? And would it be possible to get a state rank despite people below me doing bad and only HSC seperating us?

 

[anomalousdecay]

Your rank and difference between ranks are what matter, which is where your assessment mark comes from. So really, this is worth 50% of your final HSC mark.

If you come first, then you can only be affected by your peers positively. If you come first, then your examination mark is your mark (50% of your final HSC mark) from your final exam and your assessment mark (other 50%) is just the highest exam mark from your cohort (which may be your own).

From there, all other marks are moderated. So if you come second or third or whatever, your mark can be affected in different ways.

 

[EMKsquared]

Ok so say my internal mark is 90 and HSC is 96, and 2nd gets 85 internal and 85 HSC, would i get 90 overall or 93?

 

[A1P]

Ok so say my internal mark is 90 and HSC is 96, and 2nd gets 85 internal and 85 HSC, would i get 90 overall or 93?

If you are 1st Internal & 1st Exam, you get 1st Exam as your own + 1st Exam as your Assessment -> HSC = 1st Exam

If you are 1st Internal & N-th Exam, you get N-th Exam as your own + 1st Exam as your Assessment -> HSC = average of these two

If your Internal mark (presumed 1st) is 90 and Exam is 96, you get 96 + whatever the top Exam mark. Doesn't matter what 2nd or the rest get (this only applicable to 1st Internal).

You can have a read of this thread to understand better
http://community.boredofstudies.org...-understand-how-cohort-affects-your-mark.html

 

[EMKsquared]

Yes i understand that, but say my rank is 1st and i achieve a much higher mark in HSC than school but the cohort does about the same, what mark do i get? Internal+external/2 or external? And if so does that mean as long as you are first onternally do you basically get whatever your HSC mark is? So you could get 70% internal at rank 1 and get 100 in HSC and would you get that 100 despite your cphort still maintaing that 100%????

 

[A1P]

So you could get 70% internal at rank 1 and get 100 in HSC and would you get that 100 despite your cphort still maintaing that 100%????

The overall basis is Assessment Marks are based on your cohort's Exam marks, not on Internal numerical marks, to take schools bias out of the equation. So yes, even if your Internal mark is 70 but ranks 1st you deserve to get the 1st Exam mark as your Assessment mark, whether it's scored by yourself or someone else, even if it's 100, because you've proved to BOSTES via the Exam that you ARE at that level.

 

[EMKsquared]

Ok thanks!!!!

 

[anomalousdecay]

Have a read of this. The mark you receive in school is not the main interest. It is the rank and relative difference between ranks.

http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/hsc-results/understanding.html