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[jessi90]

are internal marks rounded off when they send it in to the BOS at the end of the year?

 

[jessi90]

well, since your internal marks determine your rank, I was wondering if person A on 88.5 and person B on 88.8 will have their mark rounded off to 89 and thus both have the same rank?

 

[me121]

only your rank is used
e.g.
of you are ranked 4th internally but 2nd in the hsc exam, the mark achieved by the person ranked 4th in the hsc exam becomes your assessment mark. if they achieved 82 and you achieved 87 your assessment mark would be 82 and exam mark 87.

wrong! they use marks, not ranks! the school sends your mark to the BOS, and the BOS uses the mark they send in in their processes not your rank.

relative differences between students matters. however absolute differences between all marks makes no differences.

eg. if there are three people, who get 50,60,70. it would make no difference if the school sent in 0,10,20 or 80,90,100, or 0,50,100, or 20,40,60, etc.. into the board. it would however make a differences if the board sent in 50,65,70 or 0,10,30, etc..

are internal marks rounded off when they send it in to the BOS at the end of the year?

yes. they only send in whole marks. they send in a mark anywhere from 0 to 100.

well, since your internal marks determine your rank, I was wondering if person A on 88.5 and person B on 88.8 will have their mark rounded off to 89 and thus both have the same rank?

the school must send in integer values to the board, but at the same time the school must ensure relative differences between marks is maintained. so the school may choose to (and may have to, depending on the other marks) send these both into the board as 89. however what the school should probably do is stretch out all the marks so that the lowest mark is 0 and the highest mark is 100. doing this may split these two marks apart, however as i said, depending on the marks it may not be possible.

 

[jessi90]

oh ok... ill see what happens then. thanks a lot

so what happens with the external marks when 2 people have the same rank?
ie. A and B are both ranked 1st, A scores 90 in the HSC and B scores 95 in the HSC. what happens then?

 

[me121]

oh ok... ill see what happens then. thanks a lot

so what happens with the external marks when 2 people have the same rank?
ie. A and B are both ranked 1st, A scores 90 in the HSC and B scores 95 in the HSC. what happens then?

A gets 90 for their external.
B gest 95 for their external

hmmm...
now i was going to say A and B both get 95 for their internal. but i cannot be 100% sure, as this an odd case. if there were only two in the class, most likelly the board would look at the situation and make a decision, i assume.

 

[cem]

oh ok... ill see what happens then. thanks a lot

so what happens with the external marks when 2 people have the same rank?
ie. A and B are both ranked 1st, A scores 90 in the HSC and B scores 95 in the HSC. what happens then?

They keep their own external marks but intenal marks will work as follows based on what happened to my class last year when I sent in equal firsts they average the two marks e.g. both would get 93 as their internal mark. That is assuming that a third person didn't get higher than the 90 (which is what happened at my school)

I sent in

A = 95
B = 95
C = 90

Exam marks

A = 90
B = 92
C = 96

Final assessment marks

A and B = 94 (average of top two marks as they were ranked equal by me)
C = 90 - keeping relative difference (of course C kept own exam mark as did A and B