Fail rate

[Special At Specialist]

RMIT Commercial Law - Fail Rate 54% (2011)

Wow! That's really shocking, especially given the fact that it's a compulsory subject for the most popular degree at RMIT. I don't know if the students are at fault or if the course coordinator is at fault, but that really needs to change...

[sluu001]

Students fault - by week 7; there were like 30 people in the lecture hall.

[hobbitle]

I kept the pace with the workbook through semester, did about 8 practise exams and all the extra textbook questions and tute questions twice. My final grade was 75% which was not super high relative to the cohort but that exam was pretty messed up (general consensus). It is absolutely an easy to fail subject. It was only 50% that first semester - it wasn't to bad the second semester.

[Stick]

This makes me nervous for Mathematics for Biomedicine and Experimental Design and Data Analysis. :/

[LeviLamp]

I hear they're fairly easy to get H1s in, and they also apparently scaled the marks for Mathematics for Biomedicine last year???

[EspoirTron]

I don't know what the fail rate of Monash Maths units are; however, I do hear that there is a substantial jump between the problem set difficulty and exam difficulty. On another note, I don't know if in Calculus 1 you're allowed to bring in your notes for the semester, but they just cut that this year for the Calculus 1 equivalent unit at Monash.

[ChickenCh0wM1en]

I hear they're fairly easy to get H1s in, and they also apparently scaled the marks for Mathematics for Biomedicine last year???

Not just that, apparently there is a huge exam buffer ? Apparently you could get say, 100/120 and still get 100% for the exam.

[LeviLamp]

You were never allowed any notes. If I'd had mine available to check a spontaneously forgotten formula, I would have done so much better with my exam nerves, oh my god D:

[golden]

Not just that, apparently there is a huge exam buffer ? Apparently you could get say, 100/120 and still get 100% for the exam.

I know there is a 20 mark buffer for Experimental Design and Data Analysis, but I don't know about Mathematics for Biomedicine (I didn't do Mathematics for Biomedicine because that was introduced for the 2013 cohort; I did Calculus 2).

Also I think that the 20 mark buffer also has scaling on top. Eg. Those who get 99/98/97 etc probably got a higher score, but it was brought back a bit to being scaled accordingly, otherwise it would have too many people getting 100s. But without the buffer there would probably be quite a few more fails.

[kaybee94]

I found maths for biomedicine a lot easier than vce maths exams (i.e. methods and specialist)

[ChickenCh0wM1en]

I know there is a 20 mark buffer for Experimental Design and Data Analysis, but I don't know about Mathematics for Biomedicine (I didn't do Mathematics for Biomedicine because that was introduced for the 2013 cohort; I did Calculus 2).

Also I think that the 20 mark buffer also has scaling on top. Eg. Those who get 99/98/97 etc probably got a higher score, but it was brought back a bit to being scaled accordingly, otherwise it would have too many people getting 100s. But without the buffer there would probably be quite a few more fails.

The scaling for biomedicine subjects is very interesting. For example, with first year biology subjects, there seems to be a large number of people who get 88s.

Yeh sorry, got mixed up with Maths for biomed and data

[Shenz0r]

This makes me nervous for Mathematics for Biomedicine and Experimental Design and Data Analysis. :/

It's actually pretty hard to fail these subjects. To fail in EDDA you need to get less than 50/120 for the exam, assuming you half-mark all of the other assessments throughout the semester. Maths doesn't have a buffer but as long as you've done the work, you should do well anyway