Does the school scale your marks up or something? Whats the story? What are the odds of getting over 50 for each exam in the HSC with school submitted marks from 55-70? What hpapens if you get 55 in the HSC for biology, would you get scalled up or stay 55? cheers.
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Ah Cool, Well, What would be the odds of passing every exam, ie getting 50+ for each exam? DO MOST people pass or what, like in a failing school where lets say 5 people pass english, and 60 fail, would the BOS give soime of the 60 that failed extra marks to make the school not look bad or what?
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nope - if anything, they'd pull it down a bit to even if out.
To pull examples from my school - we were always marked quite hard, so when it got the the HSC there was a big discrepancy (average of about 15/100 marks, although I did get pulled up about 20 for Eng adv, or was it textiles? can't remember) between internal and external marks. Internal marks got pulled up
The vast majority of students will pass the HSC. This is because it is a fairly accepted fact that you *will* pass (provided you do *some* work), it's just a matter of how much you get over 50. It's only in Uni when this changes
To pull examples from my school - we were always marked quite hard, so when it got the the HSC there was a big discrepancy (average of about 15/100 marks, although I did get pulled up about 20 for Eng adv, or was it textiles? can't remember) between internal and external marks. Internal marks got pulled up
The vast majority of students will pass the HSC. This is because it is a fairly accepted fact that you *will* pass (provided you do *some* work), it's just a matter of how much you get over 50. It's only in Uni when this changes
I think what you are asking about is the moderating process.#23 said:
Basically, your school's performance in the external exam determines how the marks get altered. The raw assessment marks (marks submitted by the school) are moderated in accordance to the distribution of marks in the external exam. If your ranks in the school differ a lot between the external and internal assessments then the resultant moderated assessment mark would most likely be very different to the exam mark. If your ranks are maintained, then the moderated assessment mark and exam mark would be more or less similar.