Gavrillo said:
External Assessment in relation to Internal Assessment.
As you know, your internal assessment mark is combined with your external assessment mark to give you your UAI, right? Well, your external mark also moderates your internal assessment mark by increasing your rank in your class.
Your rank does not go up, unless your raw examination mark is significantly higher than your moderated assessment mark. Your rank can go down if your raw examination mark is significantly lower than your moderated assessment mark. You must maximise your marks in both school assessment marks and external examination marks in order to maximise your potential UAI.
Gavrillo said:
If you've posted this after recieving worse than expected internal marks, don't worry. As I've been reading around about external assessment, an unnamed official of the BOS said that external counts for 75% of your whole assessment...I like that.
External assesment worth seventy five per cent of whole assessment! That is NOT true for most HSC courses. Read this quote from the Board of Studies rules and procedures guide for the HSC:
"For most Board Developed Courses, school-based assessment throughout Year 12 contributes
50% of your HSC mark, and is reported on your Record of Achievement.
For each course, schools prepare and administer an assessment program in accordance with specifications provided by the Board. These specifications identify the components of the course to be assessed and their weightings, and the timing and weighting of tasks.
Assessment tasks are designed to measure knowledge, skills and understanding in relation to a wide range of outcomes. They may include tests, written assignments, practical activities, fieldwork and projects.
When you commence studying the HSC course, your school will provide you with details of your assessment tasks.
All work presented in an assessment task must be your own. Malpractice (cheating) or plagiarism (claiming someone else’s ideas or work as your own) could lead to you receiving zero marks.
At the conclusion of the HSC assessment program, your school will submit a schoolbased assessment mark to the Board for each of your courses. (You do not receive an assessment mark for VET framework courses.) The mark will be based on the tasks outlined in your school’s assessment program, in line with syllabus component weightings for school-based assessment. The school assessment marks for each course will be moderated by the Board according to the performance of the students in your school in the HSC examination for that course. Your position in the course assessment rank order will not be altered by the moderation process."
Also this quoted from "You and Your UAI" 2004:
"The first step is to calculate the
average of the raw examination mark and the moderated school assessment for each of your courses. These averages are called raw HSC marks and these are the marks that are scaled."
After all that; yes, the school assessment mark accounts for your marks required for the UAI and it makes up 50% or half of it.
