TER marks vs aligned mark (1 Viewer)

[ND]

How does the TER aligned mark compare to the new hsc aligned mark? What i mean is, well.. in my 4u assessments (which are nearly exactly the same papers every year) my marks are equal with people (from my school) in past years who have received 98 and 99 for their 4u marks, but this was in '97 and '98 (before the new hsc), so what i'm actually asking is, [provided i dont screw it up] what should my aligned mark for 4u be (and i'm 1st, so my final mark will be my exam mark)? I hope that wasn't too confusing, thanks.

 

[Minai]

Originally posted by ND
How does the TER aligned mark compare to the new hsc aligned mark? What i mean is, well.. in my 4u assessments (which are nearly exactly the same papers every year) my marks are equal with people (from my school) in past years who have received 98 and 99 for their 4u marks, but this was in '97 and '98 (before the new hsc), so what i'm actually asking is, [provided i dont screw it up] what should my aligned mark for 4u be (and i'm 1st, so my final mark will be my exam mark)? I hope that wasn't too confusing, thanks.

I'm really not sure about the TER system, mayb Lazarus can help out there, but just to point out, if your ranked 1st, it means that the top exam mark in ur cohort will be ur moderated assessment mark. The exam u get is what u get.

 

[ND]

Re: Re: TER marks vs aligned mark

Originally posted by Minai


I'm really not sure about the TER system, mayb Lazarus can help out there, but just to point out, if your ranked 1st, it means that the top exam mark in ur cohort will be ur moderated assessment mark. The exam u get is what u get.

I forgot to mention that i was the only person in my class. This means that my exam mark = assessment mark = final mark, right?

 

[ND]

Originally posted by Cyph
I think with the TER marks, the marks were allocated by a bell curve. So even if two people answered the question with sufficient information, the person who wrote extra information/detail down would get a higher mark than the person who just answered the question.

Even in maths? Strange...

 

[Lazarus]

Cyph is largely correct.

You can't compare HSC marks under the old system to aligned HSC marks under the new one - or at least, not directly. Regardless of whatever distribution of marks initially emerged, for every course the marks were initially 'shaped' to a normal distribution, such that the mean and standard deviation were (approximately) 60 and 12.5 respectively. This meant that only the top few percent of students would achieve marks over 90 and so on. Contrast this with the present system where thirty or forty percent of Extension 2 students regularly attain such marks.

However... theoretically, if one assumes that the candidature hasn't varied too much over time, you should be able to compare scaled marks between years. If you calculate the scaled mark which corresponds to their HSC mark under the old system, and then, using statistics from 2001 or 2002, work backwards from that scaled mark to an appropriate aligned HSC mark, you might be able to form some sort of equivalency. It would only be a very rough approximation, though.

 

[ND]

This meant that only the top few percent of students would achieve marks over 90 and so on.

Well that's strange, cos on the school records it has students which have received 98 and 99 for their 4u mark (were the scaled marks released at all? Perhaps this is what they were?).

However... theoretically, if one assumes that the candidature hasn't varied too much over time, you should be able to compare scaled marks between years. If you calculate the scaled mark which corresponds to their HSC mark under the old system, and then, using statistics from 2001 or 2002, work backwards from that scaled mark to an appropriate aligned HSC mark, you might be able to form some sort of equivalency. It would only be a very rough approximation, though.

Thanks. Any idea how i can go about calculating their scaled mark?