External Exam Weighting? (1 Viewer)

[floyd_pepper]

Hey, maybe im really stupid. But where oh where do you find the weightings for external assessments? ive bin looking for ages. eg. how much is the final english advanced exam worth? so many qs...

 

[A l]

By external assessments, I assume you mean your HSC examination set by the Board of Studies. They are always worth 50% of your final HSC mark. Refer to this for details:
http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/manuals/pdf_doc/hsc_rules_procedures_04.pdf

 

[Meldrum]

Not true, drama is 60%...you can't generalise.

 

[fleepbasding]

Not true, drama is 60%...you can't generalise.

Is that true? I've never heard that before.

 

[glycerine]

not exactly, cos drama has external projects and all. so it's stuff you do during the yr but cos it's marked externally, has an external weighting.

'least that's the impression i got.

 

[speed2]

the information technoloy HSC exam is 100% of the final HSC mark

 

[silvermoon]

wow, that sucks majorly.
well., i hadnt heard that about drama, but id say for most things, youd be right to generalise and say 50%. i imagine the only subjects where there would be a difference would be in subjects that you have to submit work to an external marker, like ext2 eng, art etc. however, you should have been provided with dates for all of your internal and external exams and their weighting by the faculties at your school at the start of the year. if you missed out on that, go see your teacher and ask: it's a mandatory requirement. they, or the head teacher, should be able to answer any of your questions, its their job to know those things.

 

[fleepbasding]

I'm still pretty sure that drama is 50 % external and 50 % internal. If anyone has evidence to contradict this, please post.

 

[silvermoon]

I'm still pretty sure that drama is 50 % external and 50 % internal. If anyone has evidence to contradict this, please post.

i didnt do drama myself, but i was under the impression it was 50/50. perhaps whoever posted it wasnt was confused between what counted as an external exam (ie. HSC) and what was simply marked externally - like EE2 projects, artworks, musical performances etc.

 

[fleepbasding]

i didnt do drama myself, but i was under the impression it was 50/50. perhaps whoever posted it wasnt was confused between what counted as an external exam (ie. HSC) and what was simply marked externally - like EE2 projects, artworks, musical performances etc.

The ext 2 english major work is marked externally and is the external mark. The major work is to eng ext 2, what any exam is to any other subject- the external mark.

I'm sure that drama (and most, if not all) subjects are weighted 50/50, but can someone please confirm this. ?

 

[glycerine]

i still think it's such bs that ext2 eng is 50/50, the amount of effort i put into the project + rs itself = 200x the effort i put into any of the internal assessments (barring the proposal)

should be at least 40/60 or something

 

[Mandy101]

I know that drama students have to do a group external project, so maybe that's counted in the 60%?

 

[fleepbasding]

No, I do drama and the external is made up of an IP a group piece and an exam and these three added up together make the external mark which is 50 %. Gavrilo, please explain?

 

[floyd_pepper]

yeah pretty sure drama is 50/50, wat i meant was (and lets take drama fo eg) where do find the weightings for IP, Group performance, exams etc?

 

[fleepbasding]

I don't know where you can find them but I know that for drama it is IP- 30%, Group piece- 30%, written exam- 40%.

 

[A l]

Regardless of how much the external and internal assessment weightings are, in the end when it comes to your final HSC mark, produced by the Board of Studies, the school assessments make up half of it and external assessments should therefore make up the other half. A quote from the link I provided earlier, under the heading 22. Reporting Achievement says:
“Your assessment mark and examination mark will be averaged to give a composite HSC mark. For 2 unit courses, the mark will be on an achievement scale from 0-100, with all students who reach the minimum standard expected in a course awarded at least 50. A mark of 50 or more will be accompanied by a description, in a performance band, of the standard the mark represents.”
The word averaged means that the two marks are added together and then divided by two to give you your final HSC mark, thus meaning that they are in equal proportion of the final HSC mark. The same applies for raw HSC marks, which are used for scaling.

 

[wrong_turn]

i agree with glycerine in regard to major works. we use so mcuh time on them, and they are worth so little. my history extension major is worth 40% of my school assessment mark.

 

[fleepbasding]

thats odd wrong turn. Mine is worth 80% of my internal assesment. Are you sure your teacher hasn't made an error, because I was under the impression that the project had to make up 40% of the course (therefore 80% of internal assesment)?

 

[glycerine]

thats exactly the same thing when you get down to it, it just gets confused cos it all comes up to a mark of 50 rather than 100

i'm so glad i dropped ext history, i'm too lazy to do a major project

 

[Meldrum]

My bad X___X

I was in the drama forum at the same time as posting this...sorry.