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[iJimmy]

So I was talking with my English teacher who is an english advanced marker and she said that they have to mark hundreds of paper each usually in a day and that sometime some tend to get lost, so they give you a mark estimated on how you went in your assignments. I think its bs but could be possible considering how many thousands of students sit the HSC each year. a few have to get misplaced somehow with all the rush? opinions

 

[sarahabc123]

Well, itll be really annoying if you put SOO much effort into your exam and then they loose it, it's a slap in the face ! But if you did well in your internal assessments, I don't think it'll be that much of a problem. E.g like if you averaged in ur 90s in your assessments and you get that as your externals becoz they lost it , you'd be a pretty happy person I think

 

[iJimmy]

Kind of unfair though, some people tend to do great in assignments as they have the time and resources whilst exams are all on the spot. So giving a guessed mark for your HSC would be crap

 

[Spiritual Being]

That would be freaking annoying if they lost someone's, especially if they had a strong, more than typical performance.

 

[iJimmy]

it happens

 

[sarahabc123]

Yea it is unfair... But what if out stress you stuff up your exam but your typically a A+ student ( probs very unlikely but could happen) , you'd rather hope for a average internal mark than your devastating external mark ( assuming you would've done bad).

 

[monsta4lyfe]

If they lose your exam, the student should be compensated greatly for it, say an automatic b6.

No way I'd accept months of preparation to let it slip down the drain, that's for sure.

 

[Spiritual Being]

If they lose your exam, the student should be compensated greatly for it, say an automatic b6.

No way I'd accept months of preparation to let it slip down the drain, that's for sure.

Yeah...

Some kids also try very hard for the externals as a way of boosting their average internals, so the idea that they'd give them the internal would be absolute rubbish.

 

[iJimmy]

If they lose your exam, the student should be compensated greatly for it, say an automatic b6.

, Thats a reasonable resolution but markers could than just intentionally lose papers to give their school's students band 6's.

 

[Spiritual Being]

, Thats a reasonable resolution but markers could than just intentionally lose papers to give their school's students band 6's.

That's true.

I mean, it should be exercised within reason. If half the school lost their paper, yeah that looks intentional and they shouldn't get band 6's. If they lost the paper of one kid at a particular school, then yes, he should be compensated with a band 6.

 

[monsta4lyfe]

Also, the whole idea of the HSC pretty much is the on-the-day performance.

It doesn't matter if the school is biased marking your internal results.
It doesn't matter that you screwed up a couple of assessments even though you're a capable student.

If you show in that one exam that you're a band 6 student, the BoS will give you a b6 result.
All this bs about losing the exam and giving internal results defies the whole point of the HSC.

 

[Spiritual Being]

Also, the whole idea of the HSC pretty much is the on-the-day performance.

It doesn't matter if the school is biased marking your internal results.
It doesn't matter that you screwed up a couple of assessments even though you're a capable student.

If you show in that one exam that you're a band 6 student, the BoS will give you a b6 result.
All this bs about losing the exam and giving internal results defies the whole point of the HSC.

If you still have a shit internal, you won't necessarily get a band 6. it will depend on how your cohorts performance moderates it.

 

[monsta4lyfe]

If you still have a shit internal, you won't necessarily get a band 6. it will depend on how your cohorts performance moderates it.

True.

But if you're a capable student, the worst case scenario is average results (average I mean mid-to-low 80s) in which case you can still push +90s with a strong external performance.

That is, provided also, you go to a school within the top 100 for the moderation process.

 

[iJimmy]

looks like it happend to some1 on BOS http://community.boredofstudies.org/showthread.php?t=274580

 

[braintic]

, Thats a reasonable resolution but markers could than just intentionally lose papers to give their school's students band 6's.

Markers are never given papers from their own school to mark.