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A few years of research. I run this site - my original reason for creating it was to increase understanding of the complex procedures used to scale marks and calculate UAIs. I'm not trying to disrepect you or anything, but I'd invite you to prove me wrong. I should point out that the text...

Remember that the raw band cut-offs change dramatically from year to year. That cut-off was only for the 2003 paper. No. The marks are only aligned so that they correspond with the appropriate band descriptors, indicating what a student at that level typically knows and can do. It is the...

When moderating assessment marks, only the students from your school are considered - the performance of the rest of the state has no effect. The statewide HSC exam is used as a 'benchmark' to place assessment marks from different schools on the same scale. The moderated assessment mark...

No - it depends on how hard the markers think the exam was in comparison to previous years.

P(neither 6) = P(not 6 on first die) * P(not 6 on second die) = 5/6 * 5/6 = 25/36

You're right, there are a number of contractual exceptions in the case of minors, but I don't think this form would be viewed as a contract... what would it be viewed as? I don't know. It's entirely possible that it would have no legal standing at all. If that form doesn't pose any obstacles...

As a raw mark of 100% always translates to an aligned mark of 100%, this is always the uppermost endpoint. Theoretically, this also means that marks in the top band (and the bottom band) aren't truly comparable from year to year. But they're treated as though they are.

The Board doesn't print solutions, but Jeff Geha wrote some for us last year. They're available in the resources section of the main website: http://www.boredofstudies.org/courses/maths/2u/2003_Mathematics_HSC_Sol_Jeff_Geha.pdf

It depends on their examination marks. Remember that your HSC mark is the average of your moderated assessment mark and your exam mark. If they beat you in assessments, you'll need to beat them by at least that much in the exam.

Not unless the other 39 students in your class crammed and lifted their exam marks too. :)

Uhh. That wasn't really what we had in mind. :)

What? No we didn't. They're available here: http://www.boredofstudies.org/mirror/

There is some debate surrounding this issue. If the Board retains your actual examination responses - or copies of them - you should have a prima facie right to access them under FOI. However, the Board requires students to sign a small slip of paper before taking each exam. Depending on the...

Exemplar responses scored full marks (i.e. 100%).

Oh yes, that would make sense. No - scoring 90s in any combination of courses would all but guarantee you a non-crap UAI. Muck around with SAM to see the contribution that IT might make towards your UAI. The closer you are to the top of a course, the less you are affected by its scaling.

Yup. :) Argh, Will, we need some kind of proof! Record it next time. ;)

That's obviously the examiners' aim, but it's not always achieved - some modules have absolutely no relation to each other. The statistical adjustment process is only applied where necessary to ensure equity between students. The Masters Report stated that most markers weren't even aware of...

Actually, there IS inter-question scaling. It only occurs where there are a number of possible modules or electives. If the distribution of marks in one elective is noticeably higher or lower than the distributions of marks in the other electives, and it seems that students may have been...

Just to clarify Ragerunner's comments: If you're only asking for your raw marks, in the form of total weighted marks (the same as those posted at the start of this thread), then they should be given to you no questions asked. As far as I know, no-one has tried yet. I can't see the Board...