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[nandayo]

I'm an accelerated kid for Japanese Continuers and I am majorly stressing about my mid-course exam on Wednesday which is worth 30% of my total school assessment mark.

There are four people in my class and all the posts I've read insist it's "all about rank" and not really about mark. I can definitely say that I'm going to get either first or second, but I'm still really worried that the mark won't be anything impressive. I'm just shit scared it's going to have a big impact on my UAI.

First question: does the amount of people in your class say 2nd/4 students or 4th/30 students, change how your assessment mark is moderated?

nobody's really told me how an assessment like this impacts your UAI.

Second question: What mark would I need to get in order to snatch a 90+ for a total moderated mark for Jap Cont...? Would there be a benchmark.

As much advice/scare tactics as possible is MUCH appreciated.

cheers guys.

 

[pLuvia]

A 90 in jap cont, would probably be around 75-85 raw mark, I know I did shit in the HSC exams for jap cont, ended up with mid 80s.

Class doesn't mean anything just that there will be less people to snatch marks off. Also if those other people in your class are smart it sure helps in the HSC as if you screw up they might be able to help boost your marks up.

Internal assessments sent to the BOS give them a rough idea of how the mark distribution will be in the HSC exams, but the HSC moderated assessment marks are based on your HSC exam marks. So if you come first internally you will get the highest HSC mark and so on. So rank is much more important than marks regarding the moderating process.

 

[watatank]

I'm an accelerated kid for Japanese Continuers and I am majorly stressing about my mid-course exam on Wednesday which is worth 30% of my total school assessment mark.

There are four people in my class and all the posts I've read insist it's "all about rank" and not really about mark. I can definitely say that I'm going to get either first or second, but I'm still really worried that the mark won't be anything impressive. I'm just shit scared it's going to have a big impact on my UAI.

First question: does the amount of people in your class say 2nd/4 students or 4th/30 students, change how your assessment mark is moderated?

nobody's really told me how an assessment like this impacts your UAI.

Second question: What mark would I need to get in order to snatch a 90+ for a total moderated mark for Jap Cont...? Would there be a benchmark.

As much advice/scare tactics as possible is MUCH appreciated.

cheers guys.

If you are definitely going to get first or second you have no worries. unless that is out of two lol.

To get 90+ in Japanese...85 in assessments.

 

[Forbidden.]

Is it really true that languages are capable of extraordinary scaling ?

I heard of the word nandayo before, I wonder what that means ... It was mentioned along a sentence with hostility or something.

 

[watatank]

sure, if you go well. languages scales so wel because the students left who do the subject are more likely than not there because they want to do it, love it or score awesome marks, well more so than people who do say, maths or sciences. but if you are going to languages make sure you go well. it scales down so badly, trust me i got 70 in Japanese and ten marks difference would have been worth about 3 or 4 UAI points difference (and japanese counted for one unit, as i had 11 units)

nandayo ---> nan desu yo ---> does that mean "what?!"

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[pLuvia]

nandayo is just What!?, as in like a wtf what

No some languages don't scale well at all, like arabic etc. But most do scale heaps well.

You don't need to get 85+ in all assessments, it depends on your school and how hard they set the exams. I averaged like 70 in my school ended up with mid 80s HSC mark, not the best but who cares, disliked the subject towards the end of the HSC year

 

[ellen.louise]

The whole scaling thing depends on the candidature for the course. If there are a whole heap of people who don't perform well, but you do, it's less likely to scale well.But if you do brilliantly in comparison to everyone else, your mark should be safe. You never know what's going to happen this year so stop freakin out and do your best. Remember, your class is not the total of all of the Japanese students in the state, so chances are you could be right up there in the state, even if you are not as good in comparison to ppl in your class.