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An 06er confuddled abt THE MARKS (1 Viewer)
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nwatts
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No.
Assessment marks (the ones in front of 05 students at the moment) are derived from a class's HSC exam results with respect to assessment rank. School assessment marks are purely there to work out how far apart each rank is, and to be a safeguard for misadventure applicants. 50% of your mark comes from a scaled version of YOUR exam result, 50% of your mark comes from your CLASS's exam results with respect to ranks.
In other words, all marks come from the HSC exams. Which means school assessment and HSC assessment marks have precious little to do with eachother.
Assessment marks (the ones in front of 05 students at the moment) are derived from a class's HSC exam results with respect to assessment rank. School assessment marks are purely there to work out how far apart each rank is, and to be a safeguard for misadventure applicants. 50% of your mark comes from a scaled version of YOUR exam result, 50% of your mark comes from your CLASS's exam results with respect to ranks.
In other words, all marks come from the HSC exams. Which means school assessment and HSC assessment marks have precious little to do with eachother.
The marks people are reporting today are their moderated assessment marks, not the raw assessment marks which their school sent to the BoS.
If you're ranked first in your course and your school performs well in the exam, it's possible to end up with a moderated assessment mark of 90+ even if your raw assessment mark was considerably lower. You always retain your own exam result, though, so don't rely on scaling too much.
If you're ranked first in your course and your school performs well in the exam, it's possible to end up with a moderated assessment mark of 90+ even if your raw assessment mark was considerably lower. You always retain your own exam result, though, so don't rely on scaling too much.
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In regards to the original poster, the "assessment" (aka Internal) mark is scaled. Difference between "School" mark and the "assessment" mark can be as much as 20+/100 depending on how harshly or easy your school marks.
In regards to the original poster, the "assessment" (aka Internal) mark is scaled. Difference between "School" mark and the "assessment" mark can be as much as 20+/100 depending on how harshly or easy your school marks.
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Very mixed results. Some i'm very pleased with, others i'm very disappointed with. Tomorrow will tell.sh3zz said:
Lynn: read the stickies, read BOS notes. My version is one paragraph. BOS has written a collection of novellas on the topic.
Your RANKING within the course stays the same, your "assessment mark" is adjusted according to the exam results of the whole group within you school which did the same course.glitterfairy said:
If you were ranked first in the course and the highest exam result in the course was 90, you would receive that 90 as your moderated assessment result. It would then be added to your actual exam result and your HSC result would be the average of the two.
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^ Hence the "I'm stupid" edit, which I wrote before reading your reply.nwatts said:
I'm human, and have off-days where it just doesn't click in my head, so here's a second apology for not reading correctly and jumping to conclusions
nwatts
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No, no. No problems.
Didn't mean to bite, if it seemed as if I did.
Didn't mean to bite, if it seemed as if I did.
nwatts
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I agree. I had to explain it to our year because none of our teachers knew exactly what was going on. I think it should be changed, though, to the VCE-style assessment marks that are actual assessment marks. I don't think it's fair to base all marks around one exam.reprise said:
nwatts
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From what I read, and have been told, it's a 50/50 senario similar to us. However your internal assessment marks become external assessment marks, while ours are derived from exam performance. Perhaps it's changed recently, and i'm out of date. When did you do your VCE?
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Currently, the VCE is extremely close to the HSC. The majority of procedures are almost identical. Though a lot of wording used is different.
Over 25 years ago. That's why everyone thought it was such a great thing when the HSC exams were no longer the be all and end all - it gave kids who were consistent workers but not great at exams a chance to do well.nwatts said:
How do they work making their internal marks external? Are all assessment tasks marked externally (wouldn't work here, as many are in class assessments)? Are the assessment tasks themselves externally set?
nwatts
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I am not entirely sure. I'll read up on it, as I've just talked to a few friends who did their VCE three years ago now. It was more a case of the school submitting a scaled internal assessment mark, at the end of the year, that was then moderated around external exam performance. Rather than the HSC, where the mark is derived from external exam performance.reprise said: