Question about marking scheme

[spherelin]

Hey guys, just wondering, what marks out of 10 (for each essay) should you be getting on your end of year English exam in order to get around 40?
Lol, pretty sure someone has asked this before.... oh well.

Thanks guys!

[brenden]

Hey guys, just wondering, what marks out of 10 (for each essay) should you be getting on your end of year English exam in order to get around 40?
Lol, pretty sure someone has asked this before.... oh well.

Thanks guys!

Three eights would do you pretty well, so 16/20 16/20 16/20 assuming you were rank one.

[spherelin]

Hey guys, just wondering, what marks out of 10 (for each essay) should you be getting on your end of year English exam in order to get around 40?
Lol, pretty sure someone has asked this before.... oh well.

Thanks guys!

Three eights would do you pretty well, so 16/20 16/20 16/20 assuming you were rank one.

ohhh yay, thanks for that

[VivaTequila]

Brenden is on the money.

The normal distribution works out so that 40+ is generally top ~10% of the state. That means that you want to be getting the marks that the top 10% of the state get.

In this case...

English Grade Distributions

Going by 2011:

Graded Assessment 1: 13% of students got A+, which was marks between 84/100 ~ 100/100 (unit 3 out of 100 marks)
Graded Assessment 2: 15% of students got A+, which was marks between 84/100 ~ 100/100 (unit 4 out of 100 marks)
Graded Assessment 3: 7% of students got A+, which was marks between 47/60 ~ 60/60 (exam out of 60 marks)

So basically try to be aiming for the very high 80s or low 90s in SACs and aim to get a MINIMUM of 47/60 on the exam  (7.8 on each piece) to get a very low 40.