Help with reading results! (1 Viewer)

[smarties07]

The marks say "Examination Mark", "Assessment Mark", "HSC Mark" and "Band Performance".

Does anyone know what the difference between these columns is? Particularly the first 3? Thanks!!

 

[Kieran95]

exam mark = how you went in hsc exam
Assess mark = how you went throughout the year
hsc mark = average of the other two

 

[skyscraper]

HSC mark is the combined average of your examination assessment mark.

 

[ellie95]

For chemistry i was getting 85's and ranked 1st but says assessment mark is in the 70s why? Similar to business in the 90S ranked first now fell to 80s. How?

 

[smarties07]

Me too! I got mid-90s for Ancient History but then now it says 80s? I'm confused

 

[MVP_MVP]

The assessment mark isn't based off your school mark, its based off your school rank
Basically you receive the X ranked HSC mark in your cohort as your assessment mark, where X is your school rank.
Otherwise derp schools can just set easy tests and everyone would get 100

 

[smarties07]

Ok so I'll give an example. I got 95 in school (1st place) for Ancient, but then on the website it says my assessment mark is 89. I'm not sure how that changed...explain please

 

[MVP_MVP]

Then I can infer that your exam mark was equal to or less than 89.
Basically, you leeched off the best guy in your class, who got 89.
It may be yourself. But I know from this that no one in your cohort got above 89 D:
What you get in the school assessments DOESNT MATTER
only your SCHOOL RANK does

 

[kenkap]

i am surprised that some people dont know this

 

[smarties07]

Ok thanks, looking over everything I get it now. Sorry, we were never explained this in school, we were all just under the impression that we'd get one mark for each subject :/

 

[cem]

Please remember that the assessment mark also reflects the gaps between the ranks and isn't a direct 2nd exam mark becomes 2nd assessment mark - for everyone other than 1st and last the assessment marks reflect the gaps as well as the ranks and can therefore be different to the gaps in the exam.

School marks are to determine ranks and gaps and otherwise mean nothing.

The exam is the only common assessment task and so is used to moderate the schools' marks - if there was no such procedure schools would simply send in all students with really high marks.