Moderating ASSes.. (1 Viewer)

[Mighty`WoRRIEr]

This thing with moderating our assessment marks.. how does it work?
and for does who have done the HSC before.. how much were your marks moderated?

like if i ended up with 60/100 as my school assessment for english.. and my school supposedly marks hard (selective school) how much could it jump up to?


so yerr.. anyone out dere care to share wat ya knoe abt this?

thx

 

[Butterfly_Wings]

Read the sticky thread at the top of this forum about how your school marks and ranks affect your HSC marks...it explains it all there.

 

[Lazarus]

It's not valid to make comparisons of raw assessment marks between schools or between courses, and it's not valid to compare them to moderated assessment marks.

But since you asked, some of mine were:

<pre><table border=1><tr><td>Course<td>Raw<td>Mod<td>Rank
<tr><td>English (Advanced)<td>86.40<td>84<td>=1
<tr><td>English Extension 1<td>43.46<td>46<td>=1
<tr><td>English Extension 2<td>40.68<td>45<td>2
<tr><td>Mathematics<td>91.15<td>90<td>1
<tr><td>Maths Extension 1<td>32.95<td>41<td>4
<tr><td>Physics<td>87.65<td>88<td>2</table></pre>

 

[blind spirit]

how come english advanced got scaled down?
i thought it was a scaling up-type subject?

 

[Minai]

Originally posted by blind spirit
how come english advanced got scaled down?
i thought it was a scaling up-type subject?

hardly any subjects get 'scaled up'
good scaling is defined by how little a subject scales down
Eg. English advanced is a good scaling subject coz it doesnt scale u down that much.

 

[Lazarus]

Originally posted by blind spirit
how come english advanced got scaled down?
i thought it was a scaling up-type subject?

I might just reiterate the comment at the top of my post:

It is not valid to compare raw assessment marks to moderated assessment marks.

In this case, there was no scaling up or down - I was assigned a completely new assessment mark based on the performance of my class in the HSC exam.

Minai's comment correctly applies to the other form of scaling done by the UAC.

 

[Minai]

oops
yeah, my comment was referring to the scaling of HSC marks.

 

[blind spirit]

this raw mark, is that your mark after its been altered in some way?
finding it hard to see how you got .46 in something?
is it like scaled comparitavely against all the markers or something, and then moderated?

 

[Lazarus]

Originally posted by blind spirit
this raw mark, is that your mark after its been altered in some way?

No. Raw marks are (theoretically) unaltered marks, and they are the ones which are sent to the Board before any (official) scaling or moderating processes occur.

Originally posted by blind spirit
finding it hard to see how you got .46 in something?

That was just a result of taking the weightings for each assessment task into account... e.g., our first EE1 assignment, worth only 10%, was marked out of 60. I received 53/60, which is 88.3%, and so as a mark out of 10, it's 8.83. When that happens for a few assignments, you end up with weird little decimal places in your final mark.

Originally posted by blind spirit
is it like scaled comparitavely against all the markers or something, and then moderated?

Some schools choose to shift their raw assessment marks up or down (whilst maintaining the rank order and relative differences between students) before sending the marks to the Board. In general, however, most schools leave them as 'raw' marks, in the true sense of the word.

 

[flyin']

From memory here were some of my RAW Internal Marks (that I could remember) and the corresponding Assessment HSC Marks:
* PHYSICS: Internal (75) ---> Assessment HSC (85)
* MATHEMATICS Extension 1: Internal (96) ---> Assessment HSC (98)
I guess both examples show that it doesn't matter what your Internal RAW Marks are ...