aaaman said:
stfu 06er how dare u question us intelligent and far much superior 05ers u don't know shit about the system as the fucking system hopes u cave into pressure and u fill yourself so that all ur skool friends get 5 uai points
5UAI points>timbr0(what kind of shit name is that)
EDIT: also as this stupid fat wog doesn't know that the uai cut offs are actually a lie. this tool would say that "omg bs the cutoffs are real." they are only real in law and shit that everyone wants to get into. Like i know someone who got a uai of 67 that got into software engineering with a uai of 77. its us 05ers that are much wiser than this fat cunt.
According to this post, it appears that you do not know how the system actually works. Also, please cut out the excessive arrogance as it only blackens your name as a student from the class of 2005, rather than promotes it, on the forum.
Serius said:
WTF are you talking about?
it isnt just as easy, someone who goes to ssome god aweful place like maquarie fields high is never going to get as good marks as a sefton high kid. Thats because your schools ranking compared to the rest of the state is more important than your individual ranking
e.g i could go to my local gronk school and come 1st in everything, but it doesnt mean shit cause they are all dumb and got around 50, i would actually end up with a much lower uai, even though i have a higher inter-school ranking
so basically you dont know what you are talking about
You are absolutely incorrect. Unfortunately this is a common myth associated with the school based scaling system. Before I head into the way it really works, think about the credibility of your statements.
First of all there is no set definition or cut off for a "poor performing school" because it is subjective matter. Secondly, the performance of an individual school varies from year to year, so just because one school gets a bad rank in one year, that doesn't mean that it will continue this performance in the next year. Thirdly, there are plenty of people who score extremely high UAIs in low ranked schools. DO NOT MAKE THE ASSUMPTION THAT ALL PEOPLE IN LOWER RANKED SCHOOLS ARE NOT AS ACADEMICALLY ABLE AS THOSE IN HIGHER RANKED SCHOOLS.
Your assumption is that the entire grade will drag you down if you top a lower ranked school, which is not true. A more suitable statement would be that those above you in terms of rankings would have some influence on your final mark. Think about it, if you are doing average in a poor candidature, then your ranking compared to the state should theoretically be low because those above you are low ranked relative to the entire state. If you are doing average in a strong candidature then they your state ranking should theoretically be higher because those above you have a high ranking relative to the state. If you top a weak candidature then you may influence the grade, but they will not influence your marks. If you are average in a strong candidature then you may be influenced by those ranked above you and you may risk dropping your ranks.
Now to the actual process in school assessment calculations:
Your final assessment mark is dependent on your overall rank in the school candidature. When the raw marks are submitted to the Board of Studies, they undergo a process called MODERATING. This is where ALL SCHOOLS IN THE STATE ARE PLACED ON THE SAME SCALE.
How is this done? Well it all depends on your external examination marks. If they are high compared to the state then the assessment marks will be moderated into the high range marks. If they are low compared to the state then the assessment marks will be moderated into the lower range marks. If you top a weak candidature (assuming you hav maintained that rank) then whatever you get in the external exam will be your final HSC mark. This allows all students to be compared to the entire state because everyone does the same external examination. If you are average in a strong candidature then whatever rank you get in the external exam will be compared to your rank in the school and these are averaged. This may lead to large differences between your exam mark and your assessment mark.
Every school has different standards and these DO NOT correspond to their overall rankings. Lower ranked schools do not necessarily set lower standards than higher ranked schools. This moderation process eliminates differences in difficulty in school based assessment tasks and places all candidates in a state-wide ranking system.
Therefore, being in high ranked school does not guarantee you higher marks and being a low ranked school does not guarantee you lower marks. Theoretically you should get more or less the same final mark in any school. The only thing that may change your intital rankings is external and environmental factors which vary from person to person and this has nothing to do with the moderating system.
