UMAX Calculator help (1 Viewer)

[Stormey]

I have an ATAR aim of roughly 92.

Can someone please explain what each heading at the top means. Mainly the 3 listed below.

Here are my guesses

HSC Mark: The raw mark acheived in the HSC examination?
Percentile: The top percentage a student is in?
Scaled Mark: Scaled mark from the raw mark achieved in the HSC examination?


Use this if you want.

HSC Mark:
Percentile:
Scaled Mark:

Thanks

 

[harrisony]

HSC Mark: your mark after aligning (the results the bos send you)
Percentile: (bad explanation)the percentage of people you need to beat
Scaled Mark: your mark after scaling that UAC does

 

[Shadowdude]

hsc mark: Your mark after aligning (the results the bos send you)
percentile: (bad explanation)the percentage of people you need to beat
scaled mark: Your mark after scaling that uac does

+1

 

[Stormey]

HSC Mark: your mark after aligning (the results the bos send you)

Would this include the internal assessment marks as well? So your total marks for the whole course or just the HSC examination?

Percentile: (bad explanation)the percentage of people you need to beat

Ahh yes, so I would need to come in the top 4 percentile for English Standard. I understand

Scaled Mark: your mark after scaling that UAC does

Is this out of 50? Does this one take the whole course and internal ranks and marks into account as well?

Are there any threads which explain this in detail? I don't really understand the 'scaled mark' and 'HSC mark'

Thanks

 

[Shadowdude]

HSC Mark

You have your school exams, and the only thing that matters here is your rank in the class and how many marks the next person above you is, and how many marks the person below you is.

So say the school assessment marks are:

A - 94
B - 93
C - 58

Then the HSC exam results are:

A - 74
B - 88
C - 79

The BoS says:

A - HSC Mark: 88 (ranked first, highest HSC exam result)
B - HSC Mark: 87 (ranked second, very close stuff, and so we'll give him something close to it)
C - HSC Mark: 66 (last in the class, far away, so yeah chuck him here)

This explains it: http://www.boredofstudies.org/moderate.php

Basically they map a curve with the top HSC mark downward as the top school assessment mark and then plot the students on that curve.

Scaled Mark

This takes the average of your HSC mark and your HSC actual exam mark (which you never see).

So for Student A that would be 84, as (88 + 74)/2 = 81.

He may have gotten a high HSC mark but his exam performance let him down.

For Student B: 87.5 (as his HSC mark and exam performance are really good).

Now for scaled marks, they are out of 50 - as a 2 unit course is out of 100. So a 2 unit course is two lots of 50 marks. So if you get 40/50 for Maths, you get 80/100 for Maths as it's a 2 unit subject. So they just count it twice.

 

[Stormey]

Cheers mate!

I sort of understand. I guess consistent high efforts throughout the year will be the way to go.

 

[Shadowdude]

Yep, that's what it aims to do. Good luck!