HSC and Scaled Marks (document) (1 Viewer)

[howareya]

hve people read the document about the 2002 UAI

can someone expalin tanle A3...the differcne between scaled and HSC marks...what is what..what do we get etc...


thanks

 

[howareya]

we dont find out our scaled marks

 

[howareya]

also...when i look at the table a got to band 6 for chem. under the HSC mark it says i need to get 44/50 to get a band 6...so that if 88/100 right....

 

[Lazarus]

Uhh. Table A3 has nothing to do with bands, and nothing about bands is included in the document.

The 44.2 for Chemistry means that a mark of 44.2/50 (i.e. 88.4) would have placed you at the 90th percentile (i.e. top 10% of the state) in 2002. All the marks in the P₉₀ column mean this; and, similarly for the other columns, the number written as a subscript below the P refers to the percentile. As is stated at the top of the document.

You can't compare HSC marks to scaled marks - you should only use Table A3 to compare the distributions of scaled marks between courses.

 

[Golani]

Laz or anyone else: could you explain a bit more about table 3 if it does deal with percentiles because i'm interested to dig out the information about my subjects to see where i stand.

what do the S.D. and maximums stand for?

 

[Lazarus]

SD = standard deviation. It's a measure of the spread of marks... the bigger it is, the wider the distribution.

Max = the maximum mark achieved in that course in 2002.

 

[Golani]

ahh.....now that makes sense
cheerz once again

EDIT: you mean HSC or exam mark?

 

[Golani]

Oh sweeeeeeeeeeeet a mean of 47.5 (i.e. 95) in ESL scales you up to 100 (i.e. 50)

happy

EDIT: is that because it was the highest mark in 2002 or because it's just a very high mark?

 

[Lazarus]

All of the marks are HSC marks - none of them are specific to the examinations.

Generally, the top marks end up being in the high 90s (or as 100) in terms of scaled marks.

 

[Golani]

Laz if Maximum is the highest mark and it's already in the form of a mean (like out of 50), why is the Mean colum is there in table3???

 

[Lazarus]

I don't understand what you mean - the 'mean' mark is the average mark, not the maximum mark.