How the HSC mark is calculated? (1 Viewer)

[jess_1495]

The title pretty much explains what I wanna know. How is the overall mark calculated? Are our assessment marks also aligned?

 

[anomalousdecay]

Raw mark:

The markers will align the difficulty of the paper to the band cut-offs.
Example: MEX2 last year meant a raw 67 gave a band 6.

These aligned marks give an examination mark, which is 50% of your mark. So the 67 raw in MEX2 last year would be reported as a 90 examination mark.

Then, your rank is aligned with the difference between marks in your cohort and the performance of your cohort. All the marks that everyone in your cohort gets are then ranked in order. If you came 5th in assessment throughout the year, you'll get something close to the 5th mark in the exam as 50%. This is where some people can take marks from you, or you can take from them. If the cohort earned 900 marks for example, and there were 12 people, then in the end, your difference between marks that the school submitted are the same, but in the end, your cohort will only receive 900 marks.

The average of your assessment mark and examination mark is taken.
This is your HSC mark.

This will help: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZiCGefbeTU

 

[jess_1495]

Raw mark:

The markers will align the difficulty of the paper to the band cut-offs.
Example: MEX2 last year meant a raw 67 gave a band 6.

These aligned marks give an examination mark, which is 50% of your mark. So the 67 raw in MEX2 last year would be reported as a 90 examination mark.

Then, your rank is aligned with the difference between marks in your cohort and the performance of your cohort. All the marks that everyone in your cohort gets are then ranked in order. If you came 5th in assessment throughout the year, you'll get something close to the 5th mark in the exam as 50%. This is where some people can take marks from you, or you can take from them. If the cohort earned 900 marks for example, and there were 12 people, then in the end, your difference between marks that the school submitted are the same, but in the end, your cohort will only receive 900 marks.

The average of your assessment mark and examination mark is taken.
This is your HSC mark.

This will help: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZiCGefbeTU

Thankyou, i understand all of that, but are our assessment marks aligned or anything??

 

[Salehhh]

Thankyou, i understand all of that, but are our assessment marks aligned or anything??

moderated...

 

[D94]

Thankyou, i understand all of that, but are our assessment marks aligned or anything??

They are first moderated based on your cohort's exam performance. For example, if all your HSC exam marks are within say 70 to 80 raw HSC exam marks, then all your moderated assessment marks are with 70 and 80 marks. But this definitely does not mean the 5th rank receives the 5th highest exam mark. It means the closer you are to the highest school mark in terms of marks, the closer your moderated/adjusted mark is to first. So it doesn't matter what rank you are on, all that matters is how close you are in terms of marks.

Also, the moderated assessment mark of the 1st ranked student is the highest exam mark of anyone in the cohort, and vice-versa for last place. Then all students are moderated within these bounds.

Then those marks get aligned based on the standards, i.e. the mark/performance between a Band 5 and 6 receives an HSC exam or assessment mark of 90. So 'maybe' achieving 76/100 is considered a mark between the standards of a Band 5 and 6, so that gets aligned to 90.

 

[anomalousdecay]

They are first moderated based on your cohort's exam performance. For example, if all your HSC exam marks are within say 70 to 80 raw HSC exam marks, then all your moderated assessment marks are with 70 and 80 marks. But this definitely does not mean the 5th rank receives the 5th highest exam mark. It means the closer you are to the highest school mark in terms of marks, the closer your moderated/adjusted mark is to first. So it doesn't matter what rank you are on, all that matters is how close you are in terms of marks.

Also, the moderated assessment mark of the 1st ranked student is the highest exam mark of anyone in the cohort, and vice-versa for last place. Then all students are moderated within these bounds.

Then those marks get aligned based on the standards, i.e. the mark/performance between a Band 5 and 6 receives an HSC exam or assessment mark of 90. So 'maybe' achieving 76/100 is considered a mark between the standards of a Band 5 and 6, so that gets aligned to 90.

This is much more clear than what I said.