moderation

Hey guys, I'm currently in year 12, went to a fairly good school ranked in the 100s, and the cohort was great. However I just moved to a rural area and thus had to move to my local school, which is ranked in the 800s, and this year I believe, there were only 2 students who got 1 band six each...

(Just curious on how the internal mark moderation works in this scenario.)

Sorry if this is your gazillionth time answering questions about outliers but... I'm asking this because NESA sounds really vague. If students are removed from the moderation process, NESA calculates a moderated assessment mark that reflects their rank and placement within the school group...

Hi guys, my friends and I were talking at school, and we don’t really understand how ranks affect ATAR. From the gist of the discussion, we know that ranks are “moderated” (still don’t really understand how), and the top mark in the exam is given to the top student. So, in order to really...

Hi everyone, I've heard that the gaps between the internal ranks of students at school matter and that the internal gaps are maintained after the school marks are moderated. Is this true? If so, if a person, say, places first and attains 91% (e.g. in physics), and another places around 6th and...