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  1. Lazarus

    Calculating moderated assessment mark?

    This is not correct. Although that method may be used by other institutions in other circumstances, it is not used by the Board of Studies NSW to moderate raw school assessment marks. The moderating procedure uses a quadratic function and is non-linear. You can verify that the transformation...
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    UAC's University Offers 2009 Online - see who's in your course!

    I've unstuck this thread so people don't confuse it with the 2010 thread.
  3. Lazarus

    UAC's University Offers 2010 Online - see who's in your course!

    No. You received your offer in 2009, so you'd need to look at the 2009 list.
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    UAC's University Offers 2009 Online - see who's in your course!

    You can search for offers made in Jan 2010 here. To search by course code, you just type in the code (e.g. 511801 for combined law at usyd) and the offers should appear.
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    UAC's University Offers 2010 Online - see who's in your course!

    The SMH list doesn't have correct course names, universities, ATAR cut-offs or vacancies.
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    UAC's University Offers 2010 Online - see who's in your course!

    University Offers 2010 Access our search interface via this link: Search Interface - Uni Offers 2010 University Offers 2009 You can view the discussion thread and offers interface here.
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    Anyone have a full list of university offers?

    As ajdlinux said, the course names in the old csv file are wrong - the correct course name for a particular course code can be found using UAC's course search.
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    What happens to the marks???

    If you complete Extension 2 this year, your Extension 1 mark from last year will be doubled and your Mathematics mark from last year will be ignored.
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    UAC's University Offers 2009 Online - see who's in your course!

    The nice people at SMH appear to have been inspired by this creation and have released their own 2010 search interface here: University offers You can only search by name rather than by course, but we might be able to set that up ourselves.
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    Getting School Marks revised now?

    It sounds like everyone in your class was in the same boat, and that you haven't suffered any special disadvantage relative to the other students in your class. Whether you received 60s or 80s at school doesn't matter - what's important is your position in your class. If your class rank is...
  11. Lazarus

    Physics internal scaled down...

    I think s 18A (which expressly deals with the publication of results of HSC exams and related assessments) would be relevant to this question, and probably also relevant to the question of whether there is a prohibition on disclosure. Unfortunately the recent amendments to the education...
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    Physics internal scaled down...

    I agree that it sounds like a demand, but the truth is that the Board is not empowered to make demands at large. It only has the powers conferred upon it by the Education Act, such as the power to make rules approved by the Minister with respect to the exercise of the Board's functions (s131)...
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    Physics internal scaled down...

    With respect, I think this is misleading. BOSBOY made a similar comment here. Whilst the Board advises schools not to provide students with the total assessment mark submitted to the Board (because the mark is subject to moderation), schools are not prevented from providing that information...
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    Ranks get released at 5pm today whos excited? :D

    With respect, I think this is misleading. Whilst the Board advises schools not to provide students with the total assessment mark submitted to the Board (because the mark is subject to moderation), schools are not prevented from providing that information to students, and in certain...
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    ATAR Statistics & Scaling Report 2009

    They're up now - they always go online at the same time as the ranks.
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    2009 HSC School Rankings

    Re: Top 100 Schools - Daily Telegraph The media obtain that information from the Board. These lists have been published by the Daily Telegraph.
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    2009 HSC School Rankings

    Re: Top 100 Schools - Daily Telegraph Best schools by subject Published in the Daily Telegraph - 17/12/09 Schools with 5 or less exams sat have not been included in this list Rank-school ................................................................................. exams sat ... DA .... %...
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    ATAR Statistics & Scaling Report 2009

    re: ATAR Statistics & Scaling Report 2009 There's a summary of the 2008 statistics here.
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    ATAR Statistics & Scaling Report 2009

    Scaling report Preliminary report: here. Tables: here. This year (2009) Across the ACT and NSW this year, 52,402 students were eligible for an ATAR with 48 students receiving the top rank of 99.95. Of the top scorers, 25 students were female and 23 were male and came from a mix of...
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    How accurate is SAM

    There's nothing surprising about this. An aligned mark of 70 in chemistry last year would have put you in the bottom 30% of the state. Despite this, your scaled mark (50/100) would have been about average. If anything, you'd expect the scaled mark to have been lower. At the end of the...
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