Correlation between course marks and your external HSC mark? (1 Viewer)

[Spoken12]

Hello,

Past students, or anyone really that's "in the know", do you see a correlation between the internal course mark of a person's HSC and their external exam mark? Or is it too general of an assumption to make? For example, more often than not would an 87 in Advanced English (your entire internal mark - so course mark over the year) translate to approximately that on the day for the average student? Or again, is that far too general of an assumption to make? Just wondering at all if there's a predisposed general estimate key for something like this.

Cheers.

 

[deswa1]

When you say entire internal mark across the year, are you referring to your raw school marks? If so, there isn't a definite relationship as it depends on how hard your school marks but there would be a positive correlation -> if you've been failing maths the whole year, you're not going to suddenly get 95 in MX2. If you mean moderated assessment marks, these would be quite closely correlated.

 

[Spoken12]

Yeah I mean raw school marks, so your accumulated marks over the 5 internal assessment marks.

Cheers for the prompt reply.

 

[enoilgam]

Yeah I mean raw school marks, so your accumulated marks over the 5 internal assessment marks.

Cheers for the prompt reply.

There isnt really much correlation, because the raw internal marks are moderated by BoS. Most of the time, peoples raw internal marks are less then their final internal/external marks.

 

[someth1ng]

The actual raw internal mark is heavily moderated and so, there is absolutely no correction.

The moderated internal mark and the aligned exam mark are usually roughly equal.

 

[D94]

No, but one would expect the higher ranked students to achieve higher marks.