To what extent do schools fudge marks before they send them to NESA? (1 Viewer)

[dQw4w9WgXcQ]

I'm asking this because I know that the marks my school sent to nesa (basing this on the difference between the marks on our reports and the weighted average of our exam marks) were quite different to what we got in the exams (they mostly just gave free marks to people that didn't do the best and bumped down some really high marks) and I was wondering if this is something a lot of other schools do as well and if this is even legal?

 

[shoulfer]

I'm asking this because I know that the marks my school sent to nesa (basing this on the difference between the marks on our reports and the weighted average of our exam marks) were quite different to what we got in the exams (they mostly just gave free marks to people that didn't do the best and bumped down some really high marks) and I was wondering if this is something a lot of other schools do as well and if this is even legal?

the school doesn't send a single mark to nesa only your rank and the mark difference between you and your peers. the mark you get for you internal matters entirely upon how the marks your cohort gets in the HSC and your position within that cohort.

 

[Shavi Masee]

the school doesn't send a single mark to nesa only your rank and the mark difference between you and your peers. the mark you get for you internal matters entirely upon how the marks your cohort gets in the HSC and your position within that cohort.

ohh okay, that's probably why they bump down the higher marks and bump up the lower marks, to make the standard deviation smaller.

But how is the rank + mark difference made into an atar?
do they then compare it to other schools or smth?

 

[shoulfer]

ohh okay, that's probably why they bump down the higher marks and bump up the lower marks, to make the standard deviation smaller.

But how is the rank + mark difference made into an atar?
do they then compare it to other schools or smth?

it is based on what everyone from that school goes on to get in the HSC because every school has different exams. I'm pretty sure they take 3 anchor HSC marks form the cohort and base the internal marks on that with respect to the relative difference in marks. so your internal mark depends on how your school does.

Assessment moderation

Learn how the process of moderating school assessments works in the HSC, making it fair for students.

www.nsw.gov.au

 

[Shavi Masee]

it is based on what everyone from that school goes on to get in the HSC because every school has different exams. I'm pretty sure they take 3 anchor HSC marks form the cohort and base the internal marks on that with respect to the relative difference in marks. so your internal mark depends on how your school does.

Assessment moderation

Learn how the process of moderating school assessments works in the HSC, making it fair for students.

www.nsw.gov.au

that's so shitty.
wtf do they not look at us individually ughh.

 

[shoulfer]

that's so shitty.
wtf do they not look at us individually ughh.

your external is individual. also it kind of is individual since your rank depends on how you did individually within your year group.

 

[PCNQQn2]

the school doesn't send a single mark to nesa only your rank and the mark difference between you and your peers.

Schools do send an assessment mark for each student for each course to NESA. Schools don't send ranks or mark differences. NESA can establish a rank order from the marks that schools send.

 

[tvskAXatar]

Schools don’t send ranks. They send a spreadsheet of overall internal assessment marks (with decimals) for each student in a course. NESA’s ranking system may slightly differ from schools (rounding, decimals etc) which is why some people found their NESA ranking to be one place above or one place below what their school said.