English Advanced and Band 6 Marks (1 Viewer)

[notthedevil]

Hi, so my teacher told us today that we need to be scoring 19-20/20 on every internal assessment and getting similar raw marks in the external exams to just scrape a Band 6. Is this true? Band 6 is 90+ and raw external marks are weighted and aligned, so they end up being higher than raw marks, which I thought would mean that raw marks around 17-18/20 would be fine for a Band 6.

My school's English assessments mimic the external exams pretty closely, so they are around the same difficulty as an HSC exam.

 

[pikachu975]

Hi, so my teacher told us today that we need to be scoring 19-20/20 on every internal assessment and getting similar raw marks in the external exams to just scrape a Band 6. Is this true? Band 6 is 90+ and raw external marks are weighted and aligned, so they end up being higher than raw marks, which I thought would mean that raw marks around 17-18/20 would be fine for a Band 6.

My school's English assessments mimic the external exams pretty closely, so they are around the same difficulty as an HSC exam.

No you don't need 19-20/20 in every section. Around 85/105 is the b6 cutoff

 

[Haramsnackpack]

I've written a guide to understanding how internal and external marks contribute to your final HSC mark, check it out here https://www.hscgoldenguidetoenglish.com/study-guide/. Let me know if you still have any questions or there's anything else you'd like to see included in the guide!