Board of Studies reveals 2004 raw marks

[~ ReNcH ~]

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Originally Posted by magician

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

Thanks magician

[Lazarus]

From those sets of marks, the cut-offs for English (Advanced) in 2004 appear to be in the following ranges:

Band 5/6: 80.8 - 81.4
Band 4/5: 67.1 - 67.4

I'll work out the others later... or I'll write a program to do it.

Thanks for posting them guys.

[~ ReNcH ~]

Originally Posted by Lazarus

From those sets of marks, the cut-offs for English (Advanced) in 2004 appear to be in the following ranges:

Band 5/6: 80.8 - 81.4
Band 4/5: 67.0 - 68.2

I'll work out the others later... or I'll write a program to do it.

Thanks for posting them guys.

Hmm...I was off by 0.6 for Advanced English

When you figure them out do you just use trial and error, or do you have an Excel spreadsheet (or something similar) to do it for you?

[Lazarus]

I use a spreadsheet at the moment, but it's very fiddly.

The general process is relatively straightforward - we can't calculate exact cut-offs due to the Board's rounding, so instead we determine the 'error margin' for each band. First, pick a set of marks within a single band to work with. You subtract 0.5 from each aligned mark and estimate the cut-offs, giving an upper bound, and then you add 0.4 to each aligned mark and estimate the cut-offs, giving a lower bound. (Just estimate them with linear regression.)

Once you've estimated the endpoints for one band, you can sometimes use the estimated endpoints from an adjacent band to narrow the range. The Band 5/6 cut-off will limit the possible variation in the Band 4/5 cut-off and so on.

[cro_angel]

hmm maybe i should submit mine for the greater good.. i got 90 in general maths i wonder what the raw mark was..
in that form thats posted up do u have to write ur subjects on those blank lines or is it just assumed

[Lazarus]

They'll have your courses on record - just fill in the personal details at the top.

[acmilan]

Hey Laz do you know why they gave my mark out of 100? Do you think its a typo or they actually changed it into a mark out of 100?

[Li0n]

Originally Posted by Slide Rule

^ Didn't you do 4unit, li0n?

nope yo
just a dumb 3uniter

[Lazarus]

Originally Posted by acmilan

Hey Laz do you know why they gave my mark out of 100? Do you think its a typo or they actually changed it into a mark out of 100?

I'm afraid I don't know.

I am the only student who has had their 2U English mark reported out of 105 - even Ragerunner, who was the next student to apply for marks after I did, had his English mark reported out of 100.

Just phone them up and have it clarified.

[Ragerunner]

Hmm....mine was actually reported out of 105. I am also not sure why they reported yours out of 100.

[withoutaface]

Originally Posted by Ragerunner

Hmm....mine was actually reported out of 105. I am also not sure why they reported yours out of 100.

I'd say it might be accounting for the weighting of paper 2 (60%) and paper 1 (40%)

[Lazarus]

Originally Posted by Ragerunner

Hmm....mine was actually reported out of 105. I am also not sure why they reported yours out of 100.

You gave me a scan of the letter you received which shows it as being reported out of 100... ?

Originally Posted by withoutaface

I'd say it might be accounting for the weighting of paper 2 (60%) and paper 1 (40%)

I suppose that makes sense - simply adding the results from both papers to produce a mark out of 105 ignores the appropriate weightings. My mark might be wrong.

[Ragerunner]

Oh..right...I was looking at my other thread. Looks like I accidently wrote it out of 105.

Fixed.

[acmilan]

Ill call them anyways to see whats doing with that

[dawma88]

hey can anyone tell me approx. what raw marks i would need to get at least 90/100. for these following subjects with reagards to the 2004 HSC :

2u maths
3u maths
adv english
3u eng
physics
chemistry

thanx alot