Just something I noticed on my Statement of Marks...

[Edward21]

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?

[thushan]

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.

[Edward21]

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?

[thushan]

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

[Special At Specialist]

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.

[thushan]

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.

[dou0014]

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.

[fazrulz]

This happened 3 times on my methods exam 2...

[thushan]

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").

[Scooby]

Yeah, I lost five half marks on the end of year as well. Two of them were on one mark questions 

[Professor Polonsky]

The curiosity is really killing me now. I'll go ask for SoM's. When's the latest you can do it?

[Scooby]

The curiosity is really killing me now. I'll go ask for SoM's. When's the latest you can do it?

February 15 

[abeybaby]

this also happened to me once on my methods exam 1, 39.5/40