"Board of Studies lashed over HSC" and other stories

[Mathman26]

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ey lazarus cud u estimate the raw band cut offs from hugh's raw marks now/

[Mathman26]

can sb answer this thread;

http://community.boredofstudies.org/...raw-marks.html

[Cloesd]

Originally Posted by we0426

YES U ARE RIGHT ..ONE OF MY TEACHERS TOLD US THAT ..JUST BEACUSE U GET A BAND 5 IN MTHS..ITS NOT GONA MEAN THAT THEY GONA USE UR BAND 5 MARK EXAMPLE 86..TO CALCULATE UR UAI..THEY ARE GONA USE..UR RAW MARK TO CALCULATE UR MARK..M I RIGHT..OR IS SHE WRONG..??????


HAHAHHAAA..SO IW WELL BE PRETTY STUPED TELLING THEY GOT A BAND FIVE IN MATHS THEN USING A RAW MARK OF 71 TO CALCULATE THIER ATAR..WHAT A BURN JOB...

Wait so they use raw marks to calculate Atar. Doesn't sound right. Im pretty sure they scale and separately align the marks. Scaled marks contribute to atar, alligned marks are used to determine bandz

[ninetypercent]

nah they dont use raw marks to calculate ATAR.

[ajdlinux]

Originally Posted by ninetypercent

nah they dont use raw marks to calculate ATAR.

http://www.uac.edu.au/undergraduate/...process.shtml:

The Board of Studies provides students with a profile of marks that indicate how they have performed in their courses in relation to course performance standards. Both the Board’s marks and the ATARs are derived from raw examination marks and moderated school assessments.

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Given the choice available, a student’s rank in different courses will not necessarily have the same meaning, as a good rank is more difficult to obtain when the student is competing against students of high academic ability. Because of the lack of comparability, students’ raw marks are scaled before they are added to give the aggregates from which the ATARs are determined.

Yes, they do use your raw marks, not your BOS aligned marks, and then UAC scales them separately.

[Timothy.Siu]

yup, i've seen lazarus say MANY times, that they use the raw marks for UAI/ATAR.

It's far more accurate...
so..theoretically, two people can do exactly the same subjects and have exactly the same marks but one person could get a higher UAI/ATAR.

[ronnknee]

Sure it would be interesting to know the raw marks, but at the end of the day, does it matter? By the time you finish HSC, you would be out having fun - and even when the results come out, the scaled marks are good enough. Also when you hit Uni, you will be very unlikely to be talking about HSC marks anyway.

[kat_6]

dude.................................

[kat_6]

Originally Posted by ronnknee

Sure it would be interesting to know the raw marks, but at the end of the day, does it matter? By the time you finish HSC, you would be out having fun - and even when the results come out, the scaled marks are good enough. Also when you hit Uni, you will be very unlikely to be talking about HSC marks anyway.

[00iCon]

My maths teacher said they'll give you the separate BANDS for each subject as well as you ATAR using 2 different organisations (cbf knowing their names)

[lcosta-2420]

Originally Posted by cem

I hope this will see an end to aligning with all students automatically getting their raw marks. It would be more honest for kids who got 18% to be told that then told they got 50% due to aligning.

study more so you dont get 18% and have to be told you got 50%, theres not point lying to the kids is there, your just setting them up to fail...

[ilovepink12321]

sorry, i'm a little confused. do they use your aligned marks in accordance with your school marks to get your final mark for that subject? or do they use your raw marks?

[Stratocaster21]

Im in the maths class with this dudes (Hugh Parsonages) sister. They rip up at maths... wish I was as good as she was

[Sordafish]

Hugh Parsonage went to my school..
Small world.

[alex.leon]

wait so does this mean I could possibly get my major work marks from this year? its really shit how you never find them out.