Does Anyone Know How The School Certificate Is Marked (1 Viewer)

[YJ90]

Hi,

Could someone out there please tell me how the School Certificate is marked, is it true that its your "raw mark divide it by 2 and then plus 50". Because i've heard many people say that before.

Thanks

 

[YJ90]

No, not raw mark divided by two, but percentile, or else it'd be near impossible for people to get 100.

Right?

What do you mean percentile? Give me an example please.

 

[airie]

or else it'd be near impossible for people to get 100.

Unless they get 100 raw?

What do you mean percentile? Give me an example please.

Percentile is basically a rank. Read your competition result sheets, that's what they use. For example, if you're at the xth percentile, it means that x% of your cohort is doing about the same as you or worse than you.

 

[Trebla]

Where the hell do you guys hear these things from? Such speculation never happened in my grade when we did the School Certificate.
Apparently, it's just marked in a similar manner to the HSC. You get a raw mark and it is aligned according to performance band descriptors. I know for a fact that they certainly do not add 50 to your raw mark. If that were true then the minimum mark you can possibly get is a 50. That doesn't explain how at LEAST 1% of the state get below 50 for each course.

 

[YJ90]

Unless they get 100 raw?


Read your competition result sheets, that's what they use.

Where could i get that from?

 

[z600]

Where could i get that from?

Maths, science, english comps etc

 

[Bobness]

the unsw comps btw if you weren't sure

at least they were unsw when i did it ..

 

[Iq]

do a search on boredofstudies cos theres another post where a person outlines the whole process.

http://community.boredofstudies.org...?highlight=process+marking+school+certificate

Check out the post by "cem"

Cheers god luck in SC
iq