Band 5/6 & Exemplar etc. (1 Viewer)

[~ ReNcH ~]

When an example extended response from a Standards Package says Band 5/6, does that mean that the student received 90% for the exam, or 90% for the individual response? E.g. An English extended response has Band 5/6 written at the top. Does this mean that the student got 18/20 (for that individual response) or does it mean they got 94.5/105 (for the entire exam)?

 

[Lazarus]

It means they scored a raw mark at the Band 5/6 cut-off for that particular question. In most cases, this mark won't actually be 90% (because it's a raw mark, not aligned), but it's more useful to think of it as though it were worth an aligned mark of 90.

Exemplar responses occurred where full marks were awarded for that question.

It doesn't refer to the overall examination mark, else there would have been no exemplar responses for English (Standard) in 2002.

 

[Li0n]

Yeah, exemplar are 20/20
Band 5/6 responses are A type essays (17+/20 i think)