Quick question,
Being a tutor, one of my student recently asked how the bands in HSC are determined... So I told him to do his best and not think too much of it since he can't really influence it.
I understand that your marks get scaled and any marks above 90 get a band 6. Would it be possible in a year where everyone did crap, but the exam committee thinks that the hardness of the exam is similar to last years, so no one got their marks scaled to above 90?
OR is there a predetermined approx. amount say 5- 10% of students will definitely get a scaled mark of above 90, hence band 6. I took ENG Adv. back in my days. Checked the BOS site http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/ebos/static/BDHSC_2015_12_15140.html
and there are around 15% band 6s (sounds right).
When I checked ESL http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/ebos/static/BDHSC_2015_12_15150.html , there's only 4%.
I was told that ENG standard and Advance are in the same scale so I assumed that all the band 6s were taken by the advance kids. (There're only 0.37 students in standard who got band 6s).
Cheers Guys
Being a tutor, one of my student recently asked how the bands in HSC are determined... So I told him to do his best and not think too much of it since he can't really influence it.
I understand that your marks get scaled and any marks above 90 get a band 6. Would it be possible in a year where everyone did crap, but the exam committee thinks that the hardness of the exam is similar to last years, so no one got their marks scaled to above 90?
OR is there a predetermined approx. amount say 5- 10% of students will definitely get a scaled mark of above 90, hence band 6. I took ENG Adv. back in my days. Checked the BOS site http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/ebos/static/BDHSC_2015_12_15140.html
and there are around 15% band 6s (sounds right).
When I checked ESL http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/ebos/static/BDHSC_2015_12_15150.html , there's only 4%.
I was told that ENG standard and Advance are in the same scale so I assumed that all the band 6s were taken by the advance kids. (There're only 0.37 students in standard who got band 6s).
Cheers Guys
