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Thanks for posting those! I only managed to grab a copy of list_1 before your data transfer limit was reached. Could you email me the second half of the list and I'll put them on our webspace here.

Yes - the statistics should be released with UAIs on Saturday. I'll endeavour to update SAM with 2004 results as soon as possible. Sarah168 is correct, we usually cite the error margin as ~0.3. But this is with regard to calculations of past UAIs - SAM wasn't designed to predict UAIs (and...

We won't know whether anyone scored a raw mark of 100% until the preliminary scaling report is published by the UAC tomorrow night or on Saturday. If that report shows the top aligned HSC mark for a course to be 50.0 (and not, for example, just 49.9) then you know the student scored full...

It will be the best estimate you can get until the statistics are released.

The media apparently have them already, but I don't think they've been published yet. Of all the students who topped a course, only 40% were male. Girls win again.

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Yes, it's applicable to every examination where students can choose between questions.

The moderator who chanced upon the thread was required to make a spur of the moment decision - at the time, it was thought that it would be best to avoid potential legal concerns by allowing the link to remain. But it's my understanding that students continued to spread the link themselves...

The link was posted on this site by a new user, and one of our moderators removed the thread shortly afterwards. It received a number of views during that time though.

The adjustments are made to the raw examination marks for particular questions, and these marks are simply incorporated into the student's total raw examination mark. This is then scaled for inclusion in students' UAIs. No students are disadvantaged. The exact criteria that are used to...

Yes, they would overall - technically 49.5, which would round to 50. Unfortunately, the immunity is only guaranteed if you're the only one ranked first. :) Sorry about that.

If there are n students ranked equal first, your moderated assessment mark will be set equal to the average of the top n major work/examination marks. So if you're ranked equal first with two other students, you won't recieve 50/50 for your moderated assessment mark unless the top three major...

Yes, that's about right. :) The marks from both courses are combined.

The questions posed in this thread have been asked countless times before. We've also answered them countless times before. :) Search the forums and you'll find the information you seek.

The entire exam is aligned as a whole. However, where a choice of questions is available, statistical adjustments may be made to bring the results of an anomalous question in line with the others.

It's not. It just looks like it is, because you're misunderstanding what is going on. You can't just put a mark of 80 for both Standard and Advanced into SAM to see which scales better. These are aligned marks. A mark of 80 in Standard means something completely different to a mark of 80 in...

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Komaticom's statements aren't quite correct. No. The size of your class is irrelevant. Yes, that's exactly what they do - and if they see the same average there, you'll get to keep the marks. If your exam average is a bit lower, your assessment marks will go down a little to match. Etc...

There would be no difference. They would receive exactly the same UAIs. However, the 'aligned' marks they receive from the Board for English would be different. This doesn't matter though, because they're not used for UAI purposes. Education isn't about maximising marks. If you are a...

Don't confuse aligning with scaling. (See <a href="/other/flowchart.pdf">this flowchart</a>.) They are scaled in exactly the same way. They are not aligned in the same way. The two courses have different raw band cut-offs. A raw mark in Standard might be aligned to Band 4, but the same raw...