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APPARENTLY
« on: November 24, 2009, 05:07:38 pm »
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...my ex-physics teacher mentioned today that the Physics Unit 4 Exam was found preety easy by students
and it would get scaled down. 
Does anyone else know about this?


(she got an email)
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Re: APPARENTLY
« Reply #1 on: November 24, 2009, 05:08:14 pm »
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Scaling is not based on exam difficulty.  It is based on how physics students perform in their other subjects.
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Re: APPARENTLY
« Reply #2 on: November 24, 2009, 05:08:42 pm »
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Just because she found it easy doesn't mean everyone else in the state did :)
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Re: APPARENTLY
« Reply #3 on: November 24, 2009, 05:10:58 pm »
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Yeah, scaling is not based on exam difficulty, who knows how much Physics is gonna get scaled up/down by.
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Re: APPARENTLY
« Reply #4 on: November 24, 2009, 05:14:16 pm »
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OKAY....SHE DID NOT SAY that it was easy....

She marks, and has marked VCAA/BOS Physics exams for last 23 years. (I.E she know people)

She recieved circular emails from her VCAA colleagues...stating this, which she showed
to me and other members of my physics class from this year.
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Re: APPARENTLY
« Reply #5 on: November 24, 2009, 05:15:08 pm »
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Well, VTAC is responsible for the scaling not VCAA so what VCAA thinks is not necessarily what VTAC thinks.

VTAC calculates scaling based on the data that is given to them by VCAA.
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Re: APPARENTLY
« Reply #6 on: November 24, 2009, 05:26:22 pm »
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My physics teacher said that her friend who's an assessor didn't have any very high scoring papers...
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Re: APPARENTLY
« Reply #7 on: November 24, 2009, 05:33:36 pm »
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Of course they think it's easy, some of them went to university
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Re: APPARENTLY
« Reply #8 on: November 24, 2009, 07:29:30 pm »
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Quote from: appianway on November 24, 2009, 05:26:22 pm
My physics teacher said that her friend who's an assessor didn't have any very high scoring papers...

I quote, a phrase my teacher used asell
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« Reply #9 on: November 24, 2009, 11:45:45 pm »
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But doesn't that mean that the paper wasn't found pretty easy by most students (ie. very few attained exceptionally high marks on the explanations)?
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Re: APPARENTLY
« Reply #10 on: November 24, 2009, 11:52:29 pm »
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Quote from: appianway on November 24, 2009, 05:26:22 pm
My physics teacher said that her friend who's an assessor didn't have any very high scoring papers...


I hope every assessor shares that opinion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: APPARENTLY
« Reply #11 on: November 24, 2009, 11:55:53 pm »
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It might just be the one.

Meh, the physics study scores aren't going to indicate anything this year anyway, because the midyear's going to muck everything up. I do hope it's a low average for the last exam though... but I'm also hopeful that they like my explanations!
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Re: APPARENTLY
« Reply #12 on: November 25, 2009, 12:02:46 am »
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Quote from: supdawg on November 24, 2009, 05:33:36 pm
Of course they think it's easy, some of them went to university

Oh God, funniest thing I've read here ever I think. haha
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Re: APPARENTLY
« Reply #13 on: November 25, 2009, 07:28:34 am »
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I think he means that the A+ mark will go up?
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Re: APPARENTLY
« Reply #14 on: November 25, 2009, 02:20:15 pm »
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Perhaps. It's bound to fluctuate from year to year. But why did your teacher also say that there weren't many high scoring papers if she shared that opinion?
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