How does aligning in chem work? (1 Viewer)

spark

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I think I did pretty bad.

I think I'm looking at anywhere between 70-80 depending on my degree of shitness. Would that be enough for a band 5/6 (laughs)? Or does aligning not differ much from the actual raw mark?
 

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Depends on the quality of this years candiadates, and how hard/easy the test was.
 

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Thank you. I guess that is fairly straight forward. LOL

Is there any past examples? Or rough estimates?
 

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do we get given raw and scaled (aligned) marks, or just the scaled ones?
 

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Judging

An examinar sits the paper and decides what a band 1 person will get right.
This is repeated for 2-6

They add up the marks for each level and come up with a total. These become the bands for each level.

The cut off for band 1-2 becomes 50
For 2-3 becomes 60
3-4 70
4-5 80
5-6 90

So it is going to work on how the "judges" decide each question is against the "standards" that are found on the boards site.

As for UAI, that is a ranking and where scaling between subjects come in.
 

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On other words to what helper is saying, is that if the Chemistry exam was considered difficult by the examiner, then the cut-off for each band will be low. For example, 88-100 maybe enough for a band 6. 87-75 maybe enough for a band 5.

On the other hand, if the chemistry was considered simple, then the cut-offs will be high for each bands. For example, a band 6 might required a raw mark of between 100-93 for a band 6. And 92 - 84 for a band 5...
 

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It is more than just how the examiner feels he has to match the question against the standard.
http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/syllabus_hsc/pdf_doc/chemistry_dpbs.pdf

So it isn't a personal feeling on the difficulty of the question but a matching exercise. The long questions will be marked against them as well.

Eg the six mark question will normally be marked so anyone who answers gets one, a 2 level person will get 2 etc...
 

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