Internal Assessment mark Query (1 Viewer)

[lisraeli]

Hey everyone, I just want to ask a question that can hopefully be cleared up. Lets say a student adds up all their internal assessment marks over the year and gets 89.4/100 and comes first, whereas second place counts their marks and gets 88.7/100...

Are both marks scaled to 89 via rounding up/down, making both students equal first (even though student 1 actually beat student 2), or are the ranks still kept as first and second when sent into the BOS?

Is a whole number just sent in or do they take into account the decimal values as well? Thanks a lot

 

[Ragerunner]

Usually schools will submit their marks as full numbers, but it's not always the case. Either way, it should have a very little effect. The internal marks are moderated to ensure the marks are fair throughout the state.

The ranking and relative difference between each student is primarily what is taken into consideration when moderating the internal assessment marks.

 

[lisraeli]

But the ranking could change due to the small difference in the marks, what happens then?

 

[sam04u]

It would have already been moderated/rounded off. So, either both are equally ranked first, or the other is second by a whole mark. (They don't actualy submit a 'mark', they submit 'ranks', 'mean' and 'standard dev.' for the distribution of the HSC scores.)