What if the Student Ranked 1st Bombs Their Exam? (2 Viewers)

[alex4nder]

Hi, if the student is ranked first in adv. english by quite a large gap (~20 marks to myself at my rank of 7th/20) and
-the highest exam mark is say 95
-the lowest is say 65
-my exam mark is 85
will this impact the distribution of marks for myself? Since I (hypothetically) was ranked at 20 marks behind but was in reality only 10
What sort of mark would you expect for me to be given for internal assessment?

Thanks for any help

 

[braintic]

Hi, if the student is ranked first in adv. english by quite a large gap (~20 marks to myself at my rank of 7th/20) and
-the highest exam mark is say 95
-the lowest is say 65
-my exam mark is 85
will this impact the distribution of marks for myself? Since I (hypothetically) was ranked at 20 marks behind but was in reality only 10
What sort of mark would you expect for me to be given for internal assessment?

Thanks for any help

Assuming you are talking about his performance in the HSC exam itself, and assuming that no-one can unexpectedly perform in the final at the standard of the top person, yes it will.
This has always been my issue with this system.

 

[obliviousninja]

Braintic are you sure? I thought there would be no impact as the 95 scored by another individual still results in a sitution where marks are linearly allocated anyway.

It would only be an issue if the cohort had only one single carry.

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[D94]

Assuming you are talking about his performance in the HSC exam itself, and assuming that no-one can unexpectedly perform in the final at the standard of the top person, yes it will.
This has always been my issue with this system.

You are answering with the assumption that first should have performed better than the rest of the cohort. The OP is asking in that specific scenario, whether or not the fact that first is 20 marks in front of him, would objectively affect his mark, given that first bombed out. It would not. The process of moderation is independent of whether or not someone bombed out (but of course, not in the manner that it constructs an outlier scenario).

 

[Squar3root]

If the person ranked first all of a sudden gets a lower mark than expected, then s/he will get the highest assessment mark still and his/her exam mark will be lower. Happened to me in English, I got good ranks because I handed in assessments in on time but bad final marks