Outliers, how do they work? (1 Viewer)

[jackoh695]

I've got a few people in my cohort that just go into the exams and just sit there for legit 3 hours and don't write a single thing. And then a few that go in the exam and write about 10 marks worth of shit. I am just curious how outliers work and if these people will affect me

 

[jackoh695]

This is how I heard it works. If your assessment mark is 75, the lowest in the cohort is 50 and top is 95, then when you go into the exams and the cohort scores are lowest being 15, top being 98, then no matter what, everyones marks are scattered across those 2 marks in accordance to ranks and assessment marks. I am just extremely worried that this will happen

 

[rednellav]

This is how I heard it works. If your assessment mark is 75, the lowest in the cohort is 50 and top is 95, then when you go into the exams and the cohort scores are lowest being 15, top being 98, then no matter what, everyones marks are scattered across those 2 marks in accordance to ranks and assessment marks. I am just extremely worried that this will happen

Hope not. Top 15 of my chemistry class is extremely tight mark-wise, then the bottom 5 just don't give a rats ass and average like 40%. Way to drag us down if this is true.

 

[Chronost]

unless their mark is really significantly lower in the HSC then what they usually get, they will still count unfortunately.

 

[Mr Hippopotamus]

We drag them up...they don't drag us down (unless you screw the HSC so bad you do worse than them).