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Archived Discussion => 2014 => Results Discussion => Victoria => 2012 => Topic started by: Edward21 on January 10, 2013, 08:19:02 pm

Title: Just something I noticed on my Statement of Marks...
Post by: Edward21 on January 10, 2013, 08:19:02 pm
I got my Statement of Marks just to see how I went on the Biology Exam 2 to see what I got, what I noticed with a few questions that were worth 2 marks, is that because it's doubled to 4 for 2 examiners, there a 5 instances of 3 out 4 which means one gave me 2, the other gave me 1. How can this happen 5 times on a 1.5hr exam!? I'm so confused, shouldn't the marking be relatively the same between examiners?
Title: Re: Just something I noticed on my Statement of Marks...
Post by: thushan on January 10, 2013, 08:23:19 pm
I got my Statement of Marks just to see how I went on the Biology Exam 2 to see what I got, what I noticed with a few questions that were worth 2 marks, is that because it's doubled to 4 for 2 examiners, there a 5 instances of 3 out 4 which means one gave me 2, the other gave me 1. How can this happen 5 times on a 1.5hr exam!? I'm so confused, shouldn't the marking be relatively the same between examiners?

Bio is a little more subjective. One of my mates had 9 halfies in his bio exam.
Title: Re: Just something I noticed on my Statement of Marks...
Post by: Edward21 on January 10, 2013, 08:31:37 pm
Bio is a little more subjective. One of my mates had 9 halfies in his bio exam.

That's pretty inconsistent! Did he still get what he wanted?
Title: Re: Just something I noticed on my Statement of Marks...
Post by: thushan on January 10, 2013, 08:33:58 pm
He did well, yes.

These things happen. It's like one of those answers that could go either way.
One examiner could be like - "errr......yes" whereas the other could be like "errr.......no"

Like, in both of my bio exams, exam 1 i had only one halfie, exam 2 didn't have any halfies
Title: Re: Just something I noticed on my Statement of Marks...
Post by: Special At Specialist on January 10, 2013, 08:37:33 pm
I think that VCAA needs to get their game together. I would hardly tolerate handing in an identical exam to someone else and scoring 5 marks higher/lower than them.
Title: Re: Just something I noticed on my Statement of Marks...
Post by: thushan on January 10, 2013, 09:00:47 pm
I think that VCAA needs to get their game together. I would hardly tolerate handing in an identical exam to someone else and scoring 5 marks higher/lower than them.

If it were 5 marks, a third assessor (in the Chief's panel) would mark it. Chances are that the two assessors took off the mark for different questions.
Title: Re: Just something I noticed on my Statement of Marks...
Post by: dou0014 on January 11, 2013, 04:07:49 pm
On my German exam I had 3 different occurrences where one gave it and not the other too. It is a bit annoying. Same with English for the different pieces. They were all odd number out of 20.
Title: Re: Just something I noticed on my Statement of Marks...
Post by: fazrulz on January 11, 2013, 04:50:45 pm
This happened 3 times on my methods exam 2...
Title: Re: Just something I noticed on my Statement of Marks...
Post by: thushan on January 11, 2013, 04:53:34 pm
Argh that's a wrench. That would be because one examiner might be a tightass and take off method marks, or an examiner may not be too happy about some notation and decides to take a mark off (whereas another examiner might be like "ah who cares").
Title: Re: Just something I noticed on my Statement of Marks...
Post by: Scooby on January 11, 2013, 05:32:20 pm
Yeah, I lost five half marks on the end of year as well. Two of them were on one mark questions  ???
Title: Re: Just something I noticed on my Statement of Marks...
Post by: Professor Polonsky on January 11, 2013, 08:30:48 pm
The curiosity is really killing me now. I'll go ask for SoM's. When's the latest you can do it?
Title: Re: Just something I noticed on my Statement of Marks...
Post by: Scooby on January 11, 2013, 08:37:17 pm
The curiosity is really killing me now. I'll go ask for SoM's. When's the latest you can do it?

February 15  :)
Title: Re: Just something I noticed on my Statement of Marks...
Post by: abeybaby on January 11, 2013, 09:33:33 pm
this also happened to me once on my methods exam 1, 39.5/40