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Sample (2U) Mathematics marks and averages.

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Out of students A, B, C, D & E, who will suffer overall and who will succeed overall (in ascending order) ?

Will your HSC Exam marks (or ranks) be compared to your school average and range or the entire state of NSW's average and range ?

 

[Sparcod]

I wonder where that table came from.

Out of students A, B, C, D & E, who will suffer overall and who will succeed overall (in ascending order) ?

Will your HSC Exam marks (or ranks) be compared to your school average and range or the entire state of NSW's average and range ?

The worst student there is C because he got the lowest HSC exam mark (with the HSC making him comparable to everyone). His low in-school marks justify this (rather than the fact that his school's exams were hard and so he didn't attain high marks).

Your school's marks will definitely be compared to other schools across the state and this certainly gives you scaling to justify the hardness of your school's exams. (Remember that you can't just compare trial/other exam results across the state as they may vary in difficulty).

Also, ranks are considered when comparing students rather than marks. (because if the exam was really easy, then heaps of people'll be getting 90+)

Ranks are then used to scale raw marks. Hope that helps even though I suck at explaining the marking process.

 

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I wonder where that table came from.

The worst student there is C because he got the lowest HSC exam mark (with the HSC making him comparable to everyone). His low in-school marks justify this (rather than the fact that his school's exams were hard and so he didn't attain high marks).

Your school's marks will definitely be compared to other schools across the state and this certainly gives you scaling to justify the hardness of your school's exams. (Remember that you can't just compare trial/other exam results across the state as they may vary in difficulty).

Also, ranks are considered when comparing students rather than marks. (because if the exam was really easy, then heaps of people'll be getting 90+)

Ranks are then used to scale raw marks. Hope that helps even though I suck at explaining the marking process.

I made up that table and I think I'm going to worry because D's Assessment mark and average happens to be me ... I'm at 85% and the average is 78% otherwise the rest of the entire table is quite fictitious.

 

[Sparcod]

D looks like someone who did worse in the HSC than in his school-based assessments. (In other words, he ranked well according to his assessments but below average in the HSC compared to his school).

 

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D looks like someone who did worse in the HSC than in his school-based assessments. (In other words, he ranked well according to his assessments but below average in the HSC compared to his school).

Then you mean a better rank is more important in the external HSC exam than the school assessment then ?

 

[Sparcod]

Then you mean a better rank is more important in the external HSC exam than the school assessment then ?

They're equally important.

As someone once said " in the trials, you're against the school but in the HSC, you (plural) are against the state".

If I could remember how they do this calculation rubbish, whatever your rank is in school-based exams, you'll get whatever mark was at the rank from the HSC exams as your assessment mark.

E.G after the trials you end up getting an overall ranking of 2nd in 2u maths. After the HSC, the 2nd highest mark attained by your school goes to you and is your "assessment mark" whether in the HSC you came last or first.

So if the 2nd highest mark is 99, you get 99 as your assessment mark. To make life simple, let's just say that the exam mark is honestly what belongs to you.

Hope that helps.

 

[williamc]

They're equally important.

So if the 2nd highest mark is 99, you get 99 as your assessment mark. To make life simple, let's just say that the exam mark is honestly what belongs to you.

Hope that helps.

Thats incorrect. Only the people ranked first and last are guaranteed the first and last assessment marks. The BOS takes into account averages in the exams mark and deviations in the assessments marks for the peopel inbetween.