How does aligning in chem work? (1 Viewer)

[spark]

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?

 

[McLake]

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

 

[sepul]

70-80 raw mark will (should) get scaled a fair bit.

 

[spark]

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

Is there any past examples? Or rough estimates?

 

[freaking_out]

Originally posted by spark

Is there any past examples? Or rough estimates?

nope, its all mere speculations.

 

[spark]

*prays to the BOS Gods*

 

[new1]

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

 

[lillaila]

u think that's bad?............i got like around 50-60!!!!

 

[sepul]

new1 - only aligned.

 

[helper]

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.

 

[Survivor39]

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...

 

[helper]

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...