Assessment Question

[confusedperson123]

I was just browsing through the vcaa website and looked at the grade distribution of Chemistry. I notice how it was out of 146 or something when the actualy test was out of 90 or something... does it get scaled or something so losing 1 mark will actually cost you 1.6 marks?

thanks

[stonecold]

it was actually out of 73 marks.

2 x 73 = 146

[jimmy999]

For all subjects, each exam paper is marked twice. Instead of taking the average of the two, they just add the scores together, hence why the score on the grade distributions is double the actual amount of marks. They do this because some people mark harshly and others mark easy. It's to ensure fair marking

[vea]

For all subjects, each exam paper is marked twice. Instead of taking the average of the two, they just add the scores together, hence why the score on the grade distributions is double the actual amount of marks. They do this because some people mark harshly and others mark easy. It's to ensure fair marking

But wouldn't math subjects with definite answers have the same result anyway?
I doubt they mark the maths one twice...

[darkphoenix]

For all subjects, each exam paper is marked twice. Instead of taking the average of the two, they just add the scores together, hence why the score on the grade distributions is double the actual amount of marks. They do this because some people mark harshly and others mark easy. It's to ensure fair marking

But wouldn't math subjects with definite answers have the same result anyway?
I doubt they mark the maths one twice...

Depends on how tight they are though as well.

[naved_s9994]

For all subjects, each exam paper is marked twice. Instead of taking the average of the two, they just add the scores together, hence why the score on the grade distributions is double the actual amount of marks. They do this because some people mark harshly and others mark easy. It's to ensure fair marking

My Methods teacher, used to be a Methods Exam VCAA correcter till last year. Now he is the same job, but for Further.
He said they mark it twice...

But wouldn't math subjects with definite answers have the same result anyway?
I doubt they mark the maths one twice...

[m@tty]

For all subjects, each exam paper is marked twice. Instead of taking the average of the two, they just add the scores together, hence why the score on the grade distributions is double the actual amount of marks. They do this because some people mark harshly and others mark easy. It's to ensure fair marking

But wouldn't math subjects with definite answers have the same result anyway?
I doubt they mark the maths one twice...

It is definitely marked twice. Many people, including myself, have received half marks in VCAA maths exams, ie. one examiner gives the mark while the other does not.

[jimmy999]

I got a statement of marks for my spesh 2 exam and I got half a mark taken off for the last question. Aka one examiner wasn't at nice.

I believe previously they would only mark some maths/science papers twice, but last year they started marking all papers twice