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This is correct. (Now 25 hours.)

Thanks for your support guys. :) There are also some teachers who have very strong views and are against the release of raw marks. I was quite surprised to discover this. Need to be careful who you talk to and make sure they're on the right side! I wrote to the NSW Teachers Federation...

Yep. Section 20(5) is the killer. A nice idea otherwise. :)

BOS Legal Forum This forum exists because officers of the Board of Studies routinely patrol the public forums. It's not feasible to discuss legal strategy or brainstorm ideas out there where they can see. You can bet they'll be keeping an eye on it. The forum is only accessible to members of...

The 2007 Notes from the Marking Centre said this about journals: An annotated bibliography - i.e. a reference to each source material and some commentary on it - should be sufficient. On the other hand, if having a comprehensive and thick journal makes you feel good and inspires you to tackle...

Yes. :) Your raw HSC mark is the average of your raw examination mark and your moderated assessment mark. Yes. There's a good explanation on the Board's website.

Yes, it is possible. And yes, it would be monumental, if only because the Board has stoically resisted it for eight consecutive years now. :) I think it depends on the way in which the case is presented and the particular tribunal member who is hearing it. I am definitely of the opinion that...

Yep, exactly right.

The word "mean" is the same as the word "average", so when you see a reference to a "scaled mean" for a course, it's just a reference to the average scaled mark in that course. To use your example, the average scaled mark in MEx1 was 36.6 on a 1-unit basis or 73.2 (36.6 * 2) on a 2-unit basis...

The scaled mean would increase substantially but so would the scaled standard deviation. The high-achieving students that had been inserted into the distribution would receive high scaled marks similar to the scaled marks they received in all of their courses, and the old low-achieving...

There are exemptions in the FOI Act relating to certain types of documents, but those documents are still within the purview of the Act - for example: 16 Documents concerning operations of agencies A document is an exempt document if it contains matter the disclosure of which: (a) could...

No, your scaled mark is definitely 100, we can see that from Table A3 (where the maximum scaled mark is shown as 50.0). The top students get the maximum scaled mark whether they got 100 or not. This is true as well. The only question is whether the six of you scored a raw mark of 100%...

They haven't been revealed, but they are there behind the scenes. Large ranges of raw marks are mapped to smaller ranges of aligned marks. It follows that not all aligned marks will be integers. You don't know whether your exam mark has been rounded or not. Well, again, we don't know... ! I...

How can you be certain that your aligned mark was 100.0 rather than, say, 99.9? I agree that it is unlikely that six people would be ranked equal first in the 2u course unless they had all scored 120/120, which would guarantee an aligned exam mark of 100.0, but is it possible to be certain...

I don't think it needs to be stickied, for the reasons given by Trebla. But it is interesting, and it's good to see people taking their own initiative in relation to the analysis of these statistics.

If you get a raw mark of 100% in Standard, you will be at the top of the combined Standard/Advanced candidature (possibly equal first but nevertheless still at the top) and you are accordingly guaranteed to get the top scaled mark. The maximum possible scaled mark for the combined...

I agree - Standard isn't capped - we all know that they're combined and scaled as a single course.

I hope I have interpreted your question correctly. You might need to be more specific if this post doesn't directly answer it. Although the cut-offs for the two courses appear to have been similar in recent years (notably 2008), that hasn't always been the case, and it isn't guaranteed to...

For others browsing this thread, the answer to this question can be found here. Yes, it is difficult for the scaled mean to go any higher. While the scaled mean of 44.5 in 2008 isn't the highest ever scaled mean, it is certainly one of the highest. It means that, on average, the 3089 students...