Explanation of HSC Marks (Moderating)

[natalieloh]

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hey.i have one question here.what about if the internal mark is that low while score in the external HSC real exam?? what will the mark be????

[iEdd]

What?

[hello scott]

What about this case? The subject is business studies. The school marks for 1st and 2nd are 73 and 68 but for the predicted external exam marks, 2nd place gets a higher exam mark than 1st with 93 while the student ranked 1st gets an exam mark of 75. Does that mean the moderated exam mark for the student who is 2nd place in school ranking is significantly dropped. Would it be only just above 75.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[Lazarus]

Originally Posted by hello scott

What about this case? The subject is business studies. The school marks for 1st (A) and 2nd (B) are 73 and 68 but for the predicted external exam marks, 2nd place (B) gets a higher exam mark than 1st (A) with 93 while the student ranked 1st (A) gets an exam mark of 75. Does that mean the moderated exam mark for the student who is 2nd place (B) in school ranking is significantly dropped. Would it be only just above 75.

Thanks in advance for any help.

I have labelled the students in the example above.

If there are only two students in the class, the marks will be as follows:

A

School assessment: 73/100
Examination mark: 75/100
Moderated assessment: 93/100
Final HSC mark: 84/100

B

School assessment: 68/100
Examination mark: 93/100
Moderated assessment: 86.6/100
Final HSC mark: 89.8/100

Note that the moderated assessment for B is 86.6 rather than 75 as would usually be the case.

This is because of the striking difference between their school assessment marks and their examination marks - their assessment marks were very close together and their examination marks were very far apart. There is an exception to the ordinary rule in these circumstances to avoid B receiving a moderated mark that is too low.

If there are more than two students in the class the situation is completely different.

[hello scott]

Originally Posted by Lazarus

I have labelled the students in the example above.

If there are only two students in the class, the marks will be as follows:

A

School assessment: 73/100
Examination mark: 75/100
Moderated assessment: 93/100
Final HSC mark: 84/100

B

School assessment: 68/100
Examination mark: 93/100
Moderated assessment: 86.6/100
Final HSC mark: 89.8/100

Note that the moderated assessment for B is 86.6 rather than 75 as would usually be the case.

This is because of the striking difference between their school assessment marks and their examination marks - their assessment marks were very close together and their examination marks were very far apart. There is an exception to the ordinary rule in these circumstances to avoid B receiving a moderated mark that is too low.

If there are more than two students in the class the situation is completely different.

Thanks heaps.
But I made a big mistake not mentioning that there are 2 others in my class. Yeah, sorry, I suppose I've wasted your time but consider this.

Internal marks
C 67/100
D 50/100 approx

Exam marks
C 70
D 55

In regards to setting the mean of the moderated assessments equal to the mean of exam marks would this really have much effect on me (Student B)? If the gap between C and D in the class marks doesn't change much in the exam marks(and also if there exam marks are higher) this wouldn't have much impact on the moderation that you have already done would it?

THANKS again.

[Lazarus]

In that situation I would estimate the marks as follows:

A

School assessment: 73/100
Examination mark: 75/100
Moderated assessment: 93/100
Final HSC mark: 84/100

B

School assessment: 68/100
Examination mark: 93/100
Moderated assessment: 76.6/100
Final HSC mark: 84.8/100

C

School assessment: 67/100
Examination mark: 70/100
Moderated assessment: 73.8/100
Final HSC mark: 71.9/100

D

School assessment: 50/100
Examination mark: 55/100
Moderated assessment: 49.6/100
Final HSC mark: 52.3/100

You can boost your moderated assessment mark by helping the other three students in your class maximise their examination marks.

For example, if their examination marks each increased by 5, your moderated assessment increases from 76.6 to 79.7, and if they increased by 10 your moderated assessment increases from 76.6 to 83.3.

Helping your fellow students also assists you to consolidate your learning and maximise your own examination mark.

Once your assessment ranks have been finalised, you're no longer competing against each other - your class is competing against every other class in the state.

[sirpoopalot7]

Man I still find this confusing. So my drama cohort is pretty strong marks are around this: (overall internal mark)

1: 98
2: 97
3:95
4:92
5:89
6:87
7:85
8:83
9:81
10:80
11:79
12:77
13:75
14:74

I'm around rank 8

What happens if I beat a few people from 7-3? Say this as external mark:

1: 97 (
2: 96
3: 95
4:93
8:92
5:91
6:90
7:89
10:88
11:85
12:85
13:84
14:81

What do you think would be my final mark?