Board of Studies reveals 2004 raw marks

[magician]

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acmilan - btw congrats on your results and UAI : )

[magician]

Also Rench - congrats on your maths and ext 1 marks : )

[jang]

so where do u get these marks?

[Slidey]

Originally Posted by ~ ReNcH ~

From these two stats, I'd say
Maths: 94/120 ---> Band 6
Advanced English: 82/100 ---> Band 6

Indeed. Very achievable.

[Will_Sparky]

Originally Posted by ~ ReNcH ~

From these two stats, I'd say
Maths: 94/120 ---> Band 6
Advanced English: 82/100 ---> Band 6

I worked out that the maths cut-off was around 98 (97.5) from both stats, or 100 from just acmilian's. My maths is probably stuffed though , I got a 90, when I get mine we'll know...

[acmilan]

Originally Posted by magician

acmilan - btw congrats on your results and UAI : )

Thanks

Originally Posted by jang

so where do u get these marks?

Apply using this form:

http://www.boredofstudies.org/other/...ation_form.pdf

[absolution*]

Great work guys. Very interesting.

[Techie]

Originally Posted by acmilan

Maybe his school based ranking was better than his exam ranking

Greeninsanity is a girl (and a nice one at that ), but yeah that would be it.

Since she got 90 aligned for Ancient, it would seem that the band 6 cutoff was 83. If more people with exact aligned marks like that (70, 80, 90, etc.) get their results, it will really help with determining the raw cutoffs.

Digging a little deeper into Ancient, though, I found a bit of a discrepancy. According to Table A3 of the UAC Scaling of the 2004 NSW HSC Report , an aligned mark of 90.0 lay at the 90th percentile. This would suggest that 10% of people got band 6. However, according to the Board of Studies band descriptor data, 11.69% of people got band 6. I suppose the difference is probably simply rounding error, but 9600 people did ancient so a 1.6% error is over a hundred students. Maybe Lazarus can explain when he gets back.

My raw marks should be back within a few days, I hope, although I don't know if they'll be much help for determining bands since all of my aligned marks were above 90.

[Slidey]

^ everything helps.
BTW: Love you sig. Puts a smile on my face.

[Survivor39]

Originally Posted by Techie

Digging a little deeper into Ancient, though, I found a bit of a discrepancy. According to Table A3 of the UAC Scaling of the 2004 NSW HSC Report , an aligned mark of 90.0 lay at the 90th percentile. This would suggest that 10% of people got band 6. However, according to the Board of Studies band descriptor data, 11.69% of people got band 6. I suppose the difference is probably simply rounding error, but 9600 people did ancient so a 1.6% error is over a hundred students. Maybe Lazarus can explain when he gets back.

My raw marks should be back within a few days, I hope, although I don't know if they'll be much help for determining bands since all of my aligned marks were above 90.

I think this is becasue the BOS round off 89.5 as 90, so there would actually be more band 6 than people who got just above 90 as a whole number. So the 10% from the UAC data excludes those who got 89.5.

[Li0n]

sigh, i walked out thinking 115/120 for 2unit and i get 91
GFG

[Slidey]

^ Didn't you do 4unit, li0n?

[Techie]

Originally Posted by Survivor39

I think this is becasue the BOS round off 89.5 as 90, so there would actually be more band 6 than people who got just above 90 as a whole number. So the 10% from the UAC data excludes those who got 89.5.

Yeah, that makes sense - in hindsight, the figures in that table are obviously pre-rounding because they're not all whole numbers.

Originally Posted by Slide Rule

BTW: Love you sig. Puts a smile on my face.

Thanks I love Catch-22.

[Sphyx]

Originally Posted by Greeninsanity

History Extension 42/50 43/50 35/50 35/50

Wow thats nearly no scaling whatsoever, even though its an extension course.

[Techie]

Originally Posted by Sphyx

Wow thats nearly no scaling whatsoever, even though its an extension course.

Not quite ... it's almost no aligning. Even though the raw mark of 42 doesn't get aligned up much, an aligned mark of 42 in Extension History corresponds to a higher scaled mark than most other subjects, and it is UAC scaling that is important in the end (ie. for the UAI).