Whats more important? RANK OR MARK (1 Viewer)

[Dennis1348]

Hey guys would like to ask:

If you go a poorly ranked school but are ranked 1st,2nd or even 3rd. Wouldn't your actual mark be more important then the rank itself?

 

[photastic]

For the internal assessments, the mark does not matter and the rank is used to moderate your mark which is based on your rank and cohort's performance. So even if you are first getting 70 at school, assume you still come first for the final hsc exam and you get 90, BOSTES will moderate your mark to 90 to make it fair since it looked like your school assessments are harder and vise versa.

 

[Dennis1348]

For the internal assessments, the mark does not matter and the rank is used to moderate your mark which is based on your rank and cohort's performance. So even if you are first getting 70 at school, assume you still come first for the final hsc exam and you get 90, BOSTES will moderate your mark to 90 to make it fair since it looked like your school assessments are harder and vise versa.

wow so internal marks don't matter? dafak

What happens if your 2nd though?

So if your not 1st, your cohorts conformance can drag you down.

 

[photastic]

wow so internal marks don't matter? dafak

What happens if your 2nd though?

So if your not 1st, your cohorts conformance can drag you down.

It potentially can but I remembered coming 2nd and was not dragged down because my internal marks were one mark off the 1st rank and the 3rd rank pulled us up, so in reality the school internal marks do not matter but rather the rank and the gap between students.

 

[Dennis1348]

my life has been a lie.

 

[chinmayagupta]

rank is more important

 

[astroman]

rank

 

[BLIT2014]

wow so internal marks don't matter? dafak

What happens if your 2nd though?

So if your not 1st, your cohorts conformance can drag you down.

Yeah but they can also bring you up!

Why its important to help after trials/share notes.

 

[obliviousninja]

Mark

 

[Queenroot]

gaps between ranks

 

[Dennis1348]

how is HSC 50/50 then ?

 

[Squar3root]

how is HSC 50/50 then ?

did you even watch the video?

 

[RivalryofTroll]

Internally, your rank is what primarily matters - however, the gap between the ranks is also important and that is determined by marks.

Your performance in your HSC will constitute an aligned examination mark (that is, your external mark is a reflection of a raw exam mark that is aligned).

Thus, this is why your HSC mark is 50/50 - it's an average of your internal assessment mark and your external examination mark. However, your internal assessment mark is determined by the pool of external marks that your cohort attains (not the actual marks you attained in school).

If a student were coming internally 1st in a school (with let's say a 40% average cause the school sets insane exams) and the highest external exam mark in their cohort is 99 then they'll receive 99 as their internal assessment mark and keep their own external exam mark (this may be the 99 or something else). Average those 2 and they'll get a certain HSC mark - see how they didn't get bloody only 40 for their internal assessment mark which is 50% of the calculation of their HSC mark for a subject?

The above video is a good explanation if you can understand it. Otherwise, hopefully you somewhat understand my summary.