I think my raw marks are wrong (Appeal?) (2 Viewers)

[wogboy23]

Funny enough, something weird was on my Extension 1 raw marks. It says 23.5 and 17.5 - but the raw mark examination total says 44/50
Can someone explain this?

 

[brent012]

SDD does have options in its exam.

Software Design and Development HSC Examination Specifications
Section III – Options (20 marks)
• There will be two questions, one for each of the options.
• Candidates will be required to answer the question on the option they have studied.
• Each question will consist of approximately eight short-answer parts.

Theres no total weighted mark provided, in previous years for software design it looks like there was no option scaling.

So that's 3 cases already so far and within a very small sample. Statistically very unlikely then to have been an error. If it was a freak error, they would have picked it up in at least one of the cases. So those doing the recheck didn't consider it an error. I think we can conclude it is correct, we just have to determine what we are missing.

Yeah, option scaling does seem likely but still a few things dont make sense. 4025808's maths extension 1 mark was 1 off too and that definitely should have no option scaling.

 

[wogboy23]

I thought half marks weren't given by hsc markers? Some of my responses had half marks - eg. one ancient mark short answers had 2.5/ 3 - questions less than 10 marks aren't double marked so wtf???

 

[Official]

I thought half marks weren't given by hsc markers? Some of my responses had half marks - eg. one ancient mark short answers had 2.5/ 3 - questions less than 10 marks aren't double marked so wtf???

i think subjective answers are still double marked

i.e. like english adv unseen text questions are always double marked

 

[wogboy23]

yeah but the short answers of the ancient history exam (i.e the society study are very much objective) could there be an error?

 

[BOSBOY]

Where part of the answer book is subjective, it's easier to double-mark the whole book. The fact you were awarded 2 by one marker and 3 by another means it is not "objective" anyway.

Besides, there is no way for a marker to record a half-mark. If pen marking, they write the whole mark in a box. If online marking, they click a button marked NA, 0, 1, 2 or 3.

 

[smartalec]

seriously guys. it's the board of studies. I highly doubt they effed up this badly in a considerably small sample group.

 

[cem]

In Ancient History my understanding is that with the Society the entire question is double marked - not just the final question in the section. In Pompeii and Herc though the smaller questions are only single marked. Thus half marks as a final mark is possible in the Society short responses but not in the P&H (as I said from my understanding as I have never marked Ancient).