Scaling? (1 Viewer)

[BillyMak]

Heya,

My tutor said the other day that raw marks at the end if a session are scaled depending on the difficulty of the course, so a pass mark would generally be less than 50.

Is this true? And if so does anyone know where one can get stats and information on scaling?

 

[Survivor39]

Depends. If a course has large amount of people doing it, then scaling will occur if the distribution of marks do not follow the trend from previous years. Nothing to do with difficulty of the course.

 

[t-i-m-m-y]

Yes. Scaling does exist. As for stats, sorry. There is one graph that shows how the grades are distributed within the uni, but I can't find it right now.

EDIT: ah. here we go

https://my.unsw.edu.au/student/academiclife/assessment/GuideToUNSWGrades.html

 

[Grizzly]

How does universiy ensure they have "fair" scaling/marking criteria compared to another.

 

[Exeter]

they try their best. usu its fine but with all things mistakes do occur but you wont know about it
ahhh...ignorance is bliss

 

[BillyMak]

They wouldn't scale anything *down* though would they?

 

[§eraphim]

commerce subjects are scaled to something close to a credit average (65-74%). so that means the average mark could be up to 5% below a credit average(60-64%) or 5% above a credit average (75-80% <--- highly unlikely). normally, commerce subjects have no scaling. maths is scaled if u do a "higher" subject. actuarial is scaled cz they assessments are made to be difficult and thus the average is typically significantly lower than a CR (maybe 40-50% ish ??) and they have to fail some students so that only high-quality students can get an exemption.

 

[shannonm]

hmm yeah but in stats didnt wand say that he did little/no scaling last year?
cause people that take higher maths courses are getting total raws of ~90-95 anyway