How many words per piece in the exam?

[Nic K]

Yep I asked my examiner teacher today and said that you do not need to do 1,200 words to get a 10/10. She also said that it is rare to get a 10/10 and that many of the 10/10's are chosen by a computer system from people who are originally given 9/10 to fill in the required amount of 10/10 that need to be given out.

[8039]

Yep I asked my examiner teacher today and said that you do not need to do 1,200 words to get a 10/10. She also said that it is rare to get a 10/10 and that many of the 10/10's are chosen by a computer system from people who are originally given 9/10 to fill in the required amount of 10/10 that need to be given out.

wtf

[Nic K]

I think the computer system bases it on GAT results.

[EvangelionZeta]

Yep I asked my examiner teacher today and said that you do not need to do 1,200 words to get a 10/10. She also said that it is rare to get a 10/10 and that many of the 10/10's are chosen by a computer system from people who are originally given 9/10 to fill in the required amount of 10/10 that need to be given out.

That sounds ridiculous - according to some VCAA markers, there are often essays that are realistically more like 14/10, and the kids who do well in SACs that I know of often end up getting 10s for one or two essays on the exams, so it doesn't seem randomised.  Surely there's no way in hell they do something as bizarre as what you've described...

Agreed on not needing necessarily 1200 words, but 1000+ is still recommended.  Note that 1000+ does not mean having to reach a hefty number like 1200 either...

[Nic K]

Yes but GAT marks are used in the cases where there are not enough people receiving the respective mark, hence a computer system sorting people out.

[EvangelionZeta]

Who's your tutor?

[bomb]

Yep I asked my examiner teacher today and said that you do not need to do 1,200 words to get a 10/10. She also said that it is rare to get a 10/10 and that many of the 10/10's are chosen by a computer system from people who are originally given 9/10 to fill in the required amount of 10/10 that need to be given out.

I think he's reffering to standardised/bell curve scores.

Anway I'm writing 2.5 pages per piece at the moment...will that get me an 8 at least?

[EvangelionZeta]

Yep I asked my examiner teacher today and said that you do not need to do 1,200 words to get a 10/10. She also said that it is rare to get a 10/10 and that many of the 10/10's are chosen by a computer system from people who are originally given 9/10 to fill in the required amount of 10/10 that need to be given out.

I think he's reffering to standardised/bell curve scores.

Anway I'm writing 2.5 pages per piece at the moment...will that get me an 8 at least?

Most likely - assuming 2.5 pages is around 800 words, that should be sufficient.

[Kotza]

i dont doubt what evangelion said, however i went to a lecture, and the speaker was an examiner who marked a paper he provided in teh example given in the booklet
it was around 850 words and the student got 10/10

[8039]

i dont doubt what evangelion said, however i went to a lecture, and the speaker was an examiner who marked a paper he provided in teh example given in the booklet
it was around 850 words and the student got 10/10

Was it imaginative?

[EvangelionZeta]

i dont doubt what evangelion said, however i went to a lecture, and the speaker was an examiner who marked a paper he provided in teh example given in the booklet
it was around 850 words and the student got 10/10

There are always exceptions - it's certainly not impossible to get 10/10 with 850, just much harder when compared with a 1200 word essay.

[bomb]

i dont doubt what evangelion said, however i went to a lecture, and the speaker was an examiner who marked a paper he provided in teh example given in the booklet
it was around 850 words and the student got 10/10

There are always exceptions - it's certainly not impossible to get 10/10 with 850, just much harder when compared with a 1200 word essay.

I agree with this. If you really want to pull off something special and get 10/10, more often than not I think 1000+ is needed. However, I only want 7-8, so 800 will suffice