mod hist gitters! (1 Viewer)

[light bulb]

i scored 55% in my mod hist exam and the highest was 70% we were the only two that passed. does that mean my teacher set/marked it hard. or are we just dumbarses?

 

[Pubert]

Depends what school you go to. If you go to a school in the top 10, then that must have been quite a difficult test. But if you go to a school in the bottom 20 then more than likely your grade isnt very academic. However, you can still achieve great results in a shit school no matter how bad it may be.

 

[light bulb]

how do i know what range my school is in?

 

[light bulb]

yeah there were a few questions that none of us recognised! we were meant to write a full essay on a topic we hadn't evan heard about!most of us got zero for it and all of us guessed or didnt do it at all.

somehow i dont think my school is in the top 200!

 

[SoulSearcher]

Well then, it would more likely be a case of the exam, because you mention that you haven't learnt a topic that was examined in the exam.

 

[light bulb]

fair enough! thanks!
the head teacher said he's gonna scale up the marks anyway

 

[pritnep]

hmm but your in preliminary and its over and so the there would be little point in scaling up the marks, maybe only for reports.

Anyway it sounds like the exams more then anything else.

 

[light bulb]

do you really think prelims are pointless? im not sure! i'd like to think that, but i think i care too much!

 

[SoulSearcher]

Provides a base for year 12, but other than that, pretty pointless.

 

[pritnep]

If we didn’t have preliminary people would be making mistakes left, right and center when it counted. Also students wouldn’t have the opportunity to adjust to senior school and the senior assessments\exam etc. In hindsight you may think of the preliminary as pointless but you can appreciate it for the above merits. It also forms some background knowledge and skills for the HSC.

 

[light bulb]

fair enough! i definately appreciate it in preparation sense!

 

[yoakim]

Yeap, I second that too. Definately helped me structure my year 21, and I've made adjustments and improvements on most of my weak areas and areas where I continuously make silly mistakes