i have a raw mark of 87 in geography for the year, ranked first out of fifteen, and i have bummed out in the HSC exam. How do they work out my mark????
Ok, ur raw mark is irrelevant. Only ur rank counts. Out of the 15 people that did the exam, the highest exam mark will become your assessment mark (since u are ranked 1st). The mark u got for ur hsc becomes ur HSC mark (duh!). Then they use those two numbers figure out ur pecentage (ie, halve them then add them to get a mark out of 100)
I'm in a similar situation, except I think that I topped my class of 10 by a considerable margin. What happens if my whole class does pretty shite in the exam?