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Varies from year to year. Approx. 65-70 I would say, again depends on the difficulty of the paper.
 

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^^ source??

the Jeff Geha book, which cites the board of studies says the average from 1988 to 2000 inclusive is around 59/120 -- with a max of 73.83 in 1999 and a min of 46.74 in 1993.

So it's usually around 60/120 -- for this paper, I don't know, it got abstract and tough, I don't think it will go below 50 like 1993, butI dont expect it to exceed 60, probably in the region of one of the tougher exams eg 1991 which was ~55
 

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so depending on the state averages, how would the banding roughly work out? and no im not using capital letters or full stops because english blows
 

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I should think that 65 to 70 is too high an estimate for the raw average. It depends upon the difficulty of the paper, I'm probably hideously wrong but I think and average of something between 50 to 60 is more likely.
It wasn't an hard paper like 1993 (average = 46.74), but I really doubt the average would exceed 65.

Here's a list from a book of the raw mark/120, NOTE not the raw average from (1988-1998), listed from highest to lowest:
1988 - 68.85
1998 - 62.65
1996 - 62.08
1997 - 61.69
1995 - 60.58
1994 - 58.57
1989 - 57.53
1991 - 55.03
1990 - 54.78
1992 - 51.70
1993 - 46.74

So during that period '88 to '98, the highest raw average was only 57% (The lowest in '93 was 39%).

I know these are old figures, but I wouldn't have thought the averages would change that significantly. I know that from going through the past papers from '88 to '04 the raw marks I was getting on them were reasonably comparable regardless of the text (with a few exceptions).

I'm only guess, so don't hate me when it turns out I was horribly wrong.
 

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If i were to get a raw mark of say 70/120 so that would prob be like E3.... does that mean im infront of the bell curve or like near the top or at the back ? and what does that do to my UAI ?....
 
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well if only 13% got below e4, that means even if you are below the average, you would have a fair chance to get an e4
 

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"Those averages look really high to me. I heard they were closer to 40/120"

yea it really depends on the year for eg 93 is in the 40s

im sure 2003 paper would have been around that mark as well. i.e < 50
 

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i was always told by my teacher, and several others in the school, that the average raw mark for a 4 unit exam was between 2.75 and 3 out of 8 questions correct. That works out to somewhere between 40 and 45 if im not wrong. I dont mind if im wrong, but thats just what i was told. Even my teacher after the exam yesterday said 60-70 would be competitive, not for top r anything, but for an e4.
 

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