Biology marks??? (1 Viewer)

[SophieSmith12]

My biology marks were distinctively lower than every other mark. Were other people the same? If we all performed poorly will we be scaled up?

 

[edwardf316]

No, if it was a particularly hard exam and a lot of people performed poorly it would of affected how your raw mark was aligned to your exam mark.

 

[SophieSmith12]

so does this mean we wont get scaled up tomorrow! sorry i dont understand the system! everyone ive asked said biology marks were super low when they were expecting higher. many top schools only got one band 6 student in the year! if the exam was marked harshly can we be pushed up tomorrow?

 

[braintic]

If the exam was hard/marked harshly, your results have already been adjusted upwards by the alignment process.
I'm sure there are no fewer top bands in biology than last year.

 

[obliviousninja]

Can confirm more than 50% of my school's cohort got a band 6

 

[madjack]

Out of over 17,000 only 6% of students got a Band 6 this year, this is much lower than usual. Total of students receiving a Band 6 in bio are usually higher than chem and physics.

 

[sadgal]

I got 93- but only 3 students got a b6 and my school usually gets heaps more...

 

[laura-jayne14]

I got 73 which was fantastic, considering I failed the trial. Haha I hated biology!

 

[madijd]

i got 92 exam mark, and only 3 people in my cohort got B6! Last year there were 14! Same teachers etc
Also I was ranked 4 and got a 87 assessment mark

so 90 overall HSC mark

 

[BLIT2014]

I got 73 which was fantastic, considering I failed the trial. Haha I hated biology!

I hate bio too!