How many marks can you afford to lose

[ktrah]

on the mid year psychology exam for an A+? (just an estimate based on last year's)

[ligands]

not sure but biology is around 65/66 out of 75 for an A+ so i assume psychology would be around the same

[KevinooBz]

This is what you are looking for. http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vce/statistics/2011/section3/vce_psychology_ga11.pdf

[ktrah]

Lol yeah I can't work out how many marks gets you what scores though.

[KevinooBz]

70.5/91 was an A+ for mid years last year, 74/90 for end of year.

[ecvkcuf]

Section c.. ain't it a bitch.

[thushan]

Section c.. ain't it a bitch.

So I heard, the assessment report says that 0% (i guess that's effectively 0-0.5%, unless VCAA wanted to show that no one got it) of the state got 15/15 in the mid year Section C and 0% got 10/10 for the end of year.

[vashappenin]

70.5/91 was an A+ for mid years last year, 74/90 for end of year.

wait, how did you work that out? :S

[b^3]

70.5/91 was an A+ for mid years last year, 74/90 for end of year.

wait, how did you work that out? :S

The first page in the link above is for "WRITTEN EXAMINATION 1", i.e. exam 1.
Now in the bottom row of the first table there is "Score Ranges". For an A+ the score range is 141-182, with a maximum of 182.
Now when it comes to VCAA exams, two assesors mark them each giving a mark out of the total on the exam, hence why the total score in the link is 182, where as on the exam the total score will say . So to achieve an A+ you need to get , so 70.5 out of 91.

Same goes for the end of year, just go to the third page in that link ("Graded Assessment 3 WRITTEN EXAMINATION 2"), and pick the right numbers and divide by 2.

[vashappenin]

that makes sense now.. thanks

[anonymous1]

Section c.. ain't it a bitch.

in mid year last year the first section c was on Alzheimer's disease, this is something that doesn't even get taught in detail so for them to put it as an essay question was just ridiculous, no wonder why no one  achieved full marks. I was expecting something on memory, or a type of learning for example classical conditioning, but they put something that is discussed in one damn paragraph in the entire textbook and made it worth 15 marks!! what were they thinking??

oh well it's over now...

i think they'll have something better this time

[Genericname2365]

Section c.. ain't it a bitch.

in mid year last year the first section c was on Alzheimer's disease, this is something that doesn't even get taught in detail so for them to put it as an essay question was just ridiculous, no wonder why no one  achieved full marks. I was expecting something on memory, or a type of learning for example classical conditioning, but they put something that is discussed in one damn paragraph in the entire textbook and made it worth 15 marks!! what were they thinking??

oh well it's over now...

i think they'll have something better this time

15 mark extended response on the amygdala coming right up...

[ecvkcuf]

No way that would be way too unfair
grivas mentions amgydala once..

[ktrah]

Awesome, thanks guys!

[anonymous1]

Section c.. ain't it a bitch.

in mid year last year the first section c was on Alzheimer's disease, this is something that doesn't even get taught in detail so for them to put it as an essay question was just ridiculous, no wonder why no one  achieved full marks. I was expecting something on memory, or a type of learning for example classical conditioning, but they put something that is discussed in one damn paragraph in the entire textbook and made it worth 15 marks!! what were they thinking??

oh well it's over now...

i think they'll have something better this time

15 mark extended response on the amygdala coming right up...

hahaha, LOL!
You better study for it, you'll need 15 good points about the amygdala to get full marks