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[blue_roses]

Hi all, i'm sorry that this is another one of these first year posts. However, i was wondering if there was any possibility that due to scaling, you might still fail a course although you've received a pass grade for each individual assessment.In particular, could this happen to LAWS1006?

 

[Generator]

The spread of results along the bell-curve does not account for those who fail and there is no requirement that so many people must fail. Basically, you only fail if you deserve to fail, so there's no need for you to worry about your mark being adjusted to a fail if you are sitting on a pass, no matter how low the pass may be.

 

[frootloop]

Does scaling usually happen before they add up all the marks (each individual assessment) or after they've been added up (total raw mark)?

If you get 50 as a raw mark can they scale you to a fail?

 

[fush]

it really depends on the subjects.

engg1802 for me last year just took the raw marks from the assessments as final grade.

acct1001 had no scaling i dont think, thats what abdul was saying anyway.

first year science subjets have a lot of scaling, and the majority of distinctions and HD go to the advanced students. Heaps of ppl i know got 74 in MATH1001 and MATH1002, so just short of D....

 

[adamsaclown]

it really depends on the subjects.

engg1802 for me last year just took the raw marks from the assessments as final grade.

acct1001 had no scaling i dont think, thats what abdul was saying anyway.

first year science subjets have a lot of scaling, and the majority of distinctions and HD go to the advanced students. Heaps of ppl i know got 74 in MATH1001 and MATH1002, so just short of D....

hmm i agree with this... the eco & business faculty has apparently introduced a policy of no scaling (at least thats what one of the INFS lecturers said last year, seems to be confirmed by what Abdul's saying), while the science faculty places a percentage limit on how many people can get HDs, Ds and Cs, and to make the marks of a student doing an advanced subject comparable to the marks of a student whos not, they obviously have to do some scaling to adjust for the difficulty of the advanced content.

 

[mlando]

Does scaling usually happen before they add up all the marks (each individual assessment) or after they've been added up (total raw mark)?

If you get 50 as a raw mark can they scale you to a fail?

the uni has a policy against scaling you down. having said that, some schools (like the school of IT) require you to pass every practical assesment AND get above 40 in the exam AND pass any "barrier questions" in the exam. you could get 90% for the course, fail the barrier question and hence fail the course.

if they are going to do something like this, they will tell you about it. otherwise dont worry about it.