SC Final Mark Question (1 Viewer)

[Official]

I understand the processes involving how the HSC final mark is given, (50% from the Examination Mark and 50% from the Assessment Marks).

My question is just whether the SC marks are given in the same way, from both Examination and Assessment Marks or if it differs, i.e. from just the final SC Exam or whether the weighting of the 2 marks are different, etc. Further, if the marks are just given from the Final Examination, what exactly was the purpose of all the School Assessment we did. (If not ignore plz)

 

[saberbladexx]

You get 2 reports at the end of year 10.

The SC report- marks are full weighted from your sc exam results.

Then your school hands your usual report with your ranks and marks for your subjects from school assessment and tests.

The school has their assessment tasks because it allows rankings for subjects. e.g you have to be in the top 1/5 of the year to be able to do Adv in year 11 etc etc.

 

[cem]

You get a grading A, B, C, D or E from your school based on the Assessment Tasks.

You also get an aligned mark for the exam.

So you get two results for each subject - a grade and a band.

Unlike the HSC these marks aren't averaged to get a final mark so an assessment mark of 66% might get you a B at your school but then you get 98 on the exam so you get a Band 6 and both the Band 6 and the B are your results for that subject.

Remember that you also get grades for your Electives and Satisfied Requirements of something like that for subjects like PDHPE, Music, Art, D and T (which you mightn't have done since Year 7 but you had to complete a set number of hours and that is what is meant).

 

[Amogh]

In relation to this,
Is there any form of acknowledgement for someone who tops the state? Or is it still simply classified as a Band 6, with no kind of differentiation from the rest.

 

[Official]

You get a grading A, B, C, D or E from your school based on the Assessment Tasks.

You also get an aligned mark for the exam.

So you get two results for each subject - a grade and a band.

Unlike the HSC these marks aren't averaged to get a final mark so an assessment mark of 66% might get you a B at your school but then you get 98 on the exam so you get a Band 6 and both the Band 6 and the B are your results for that subject.

Remember that you also get grades for your Electives and Satisfied Requirements of something like that for subjects like PDHPE, Music, Art, D and T (which you mightn't have done since Year 7 but you had to complete a set number of hours and that is what is meant).

Is there a set Assessment mark that gets you an A, B, C, D or E?
Furthermore, do you or anyone else here know the exact way a school calculates the Assessment mark? What sort of method is used to take all the weighting and marks of a Assignment/Test into account? I'm just questioning this because I have some serious doubts that some faculties in the school (i.e. PDHPE) can formulate an accurate Assessment Mark.

 

[hermand]

In relation to this,
Is there any form of acknowledgement for someone who tops the state? Or is it still simply classified as a Band 6, with no kind of differentiation from the rest.

you get a mark. so you'd top the state if you got 100 [my old maths teacher reckoned they didn't give out 100s for some reason - someone care to tell me if they got 100 in maths in sc?]

school certificate is not hard. you won't get an award if that's what you're trying to ask.

 

[Timothy.Siu]

you get a mark. so you'd top the state if you got 100 [my old maths teacher reckoned they didn't give out 100s for some reason - someone care to tell me if they got 100 in maths in sc?]

school certificate is not hard. you won't get an award if that's what you're trying to ask.

yeah 2 people in my grade got 100 for maths in 07.

 

[cem]

Is there a set Assessment mark that gets you an A, B, C, D or E?
Furthermore, do you or anyone else here know the exact way a school calculates the Assessment mark? What sort of method is used to take all the weighting and marks of a Assignment/Test into account? I'm just questioning this because I have some serious doubts that some faculties in the school (i.e. PDHPE) can formulate an accurate Assessment Mark.

Each school will decide how to award the grades so long as the external marks seem to support that e.g. a school can't give 50 grade As and then have all the students get Band 3s.

My school tends to go with 75%+ for an A but that varies across faculties so that about 10% of the grade get As.

You should have been given an assessment schedule by your school for each subject so you should know the weighting for each task but schools don't only have to use marks but also consider the grade performance descriptor bands e.g. a couple of years ago the marks showed that one student should get a B while another student should get an A but my professional judgement when looking at the description of those grades didn't agree and so we gave the grades the other way - I had a lot of class work to back it up not just a gut-feeling.

 

[hermand]

yeah 2 people in my grade got 100 for maths in 07.

damn. i got 99 and was holding onto that hope.

oh well, did pretty good for a year niner.