Only 3% of people got BAND 6 last year... (1 Viewer)

[ben]

I think that's surprisingly low!

I blame that damn Section III in the exam. I think last years was pretty unfair... I mean 8 marks on the ethics of market research - it's not even from the syallabus (well - not clearly).

 

[hurrotisrobbo]

What about the 0.25% for SDD, eh?

 

[Lazarus]

or the zero for std eng

 

[CHUDYMASTER]

Really?

Ouch.

And yeah, last year, only 8 people in the whole state got a band 6 for SDD out of the 3330 people doing it.

 

[ben]

LOL - It's so stupid

 

[iptteacherssuck]

that really doesn't mattar.

Its your raw score that counts

 

[CHUDYMASTER]

Huh??

Elaborate please...

 

[Lazarus]

Your UAI is calculated from scaled raw marks, not the silly 'aligned' marks reported by the Board.

The bands don't mean anything when it comes to your UAI.

 

[stressed02]

then what's the point in having them??! hmmm

 

[CHUDYMASTER]

Hmm...

but then again, in the end, does ANY of it matter?

 

[Lazarus]

Originally posted by stressed02
then what's the point in having them??! hmmm

Only ~30% of HSC students continue on to university. The aligned marks (and the entire standards-referenced system) were designed so that people (such as employers) would know exactly what a student achieved. In reality, no-one uses them.

Originally posted by CHUDYMASTER
but then again, in the end, does ANY of it matter?

Nope, we're all going to die eventually, yadda yadda yadda. Of course it matters - you wouldn't be doing it if it didn't.