bump, can someone confirm this as well please?
to put things another way, it wouldn’t make sense for them to decide your marks prior to hsc results because schools would be incentivised to make really easy internal exams so that all their kids got really high marks. this is why moderation exists, to account for the differences in difficulty between internal exams at different schools, and the way it works is that the person ranked first internally gets the highest external hsc exam mark from your cohort in that subject as their moderated school assessment mark, and then the person ranked last internally gets the lowest external hsc exam mark from your cohort in that subject as their moderated school assessment mark. the moderated school assessment marks for everyone else are divided up from the sum of the remaining hsc exam marks, and then adjusted based on the relative differences between the rest of the internal rankings (e.g if someone is close behind first place internally their moderated school assessment mark will also be close behind).
the moderated school assessment mark makes up half of your overall hsc mark for each subject, with the other half coming from your own personal hsc exam mark. if all of this seems confusing then don’t worry about it tbh, just do as well as you can in all of your internal exams and the hsc because they’re all important.
