carry on error in a practical exam (1 Viewer)

[sazkim]

So I did my very first HSC Physics practical exam - the pendulum from Space 9.2.1 today and for some reason I couldn't read and interpreted the procedure wrong

We were supposed to measure five different length of the pendulum only one time each, but instead I repeated five measurements for each different lengths

It was true that the wording of the procedure was a bit misleading and a few people in my grade have done the same

But since this is the repetition of the experiment we got wrong, this influenced how we answered the questions regarding reliability a lot.

So TLDR; will a misinterpretation of an experiment procedure be treated as a carry on error and will the questions on the experiment be marked based on how we carried out our experiment, not how it was supposed to be carried out - has anyone had a case like this before and what happened??

Thank you!!

 

[dan964]

So I did my very first HSC Physics practical exam - the pendulum from Space 9.2.1 today and for some reason I couldn't read and interpreted the procedure wrong

We were supposed to measure five different length of the pendulum only one time each, but instead I repeated five measurements for each different lengths

It was true that the wording of the procedure was a bit misleading and a few people in my grade have done the same

But since this is the repetition of the experiment we got wrong, this influenced how we answered the questions regarding reliability a lot.

So TLDR; will a misinterpretation of an experiment procedure be treated as a carry on error and will the questions on the experiment be marked based on how we carried out our experiment, not how it was supposed to be carried out - has anyone had a case like this before and what happened??

Thank you!!

No, it shouldn't be any carry-on error, as the marking guidelines should mark dependent on the data the student recorded.
The answers should be marked on a combination of how it was carried out, compared to how it actually was supposed to be in an ideal situation; particularly with reliability and accuracy.

You answer the questions using the information you've got. You should be awarded most of the marks, maybe at most one mark deduction (that is assuming your answer would be have normally been full marks). As long as you explained what you did and it was clear/detailed enough, I don't see why there should be an issue.

Generally speaking they tend to mark on whether you can reflect on the data you have; with respect to the ideal data-set.