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[vcestar]

You dont "drop"marks. Remember you start from a 0. So you probably wont gain as much for a certain criteria.

[shinny]

Actually I'd say when marking English, it's more of a case of dropping marks. The examiner doesn't think, 'oh that's a nice sentence, I'll add a mark'. The easiest way to mark English is to rather see how much someone screws up and minus marks accordingly. The examiners don't even have criteria sheets and they mark the essays pretty quickly, so overall in their head, I'm pretty sure they'd opt for the method I just explained as it's much easier to do.

EDIT: Oh and I forgot to mention the main reason behind this. Good English is quite subjective so it's hard to add marks for 'good English', whereas bad English stands out pretty easily so it's much easier to just count the number of 'errors' and let everything else pass.

[chid]

Just curious what would three scores of 9/10 get you as a study score in Eng (assuming ranked highly internally).
I mean 90% is very good without being exceptional, but in English I've heard 90% is much harder to get than in say Maths/Science subjects.

Any ideas?


Thanks.

[shinny]

Should be around 45+

[vce01]

i did both, yay.
hm, i wonder how many people doing ESL didn't adjust their writing according to the format.

[darlok]

If you drop a mark for not writing a headline it is absolute bullshit, people who write articles for newspapers DO NOT write the headlines. I knew this while doing the exam(as my sister is a journo) so I didn't put one in...

[xox.happy1.xox]

Well since its out of 10, I highly doubt you'd lose one whole mark for not putting a headline. That just seems too harsh,.

It says on the exam that each of the three sections are out of 20 (before doubling...).

[shinny]

Well since its out of 10, I highly doubt you'd lose one whole mark for not putting a headline. That just seems too harsh,.

It says on the exam that each of the three sections are out of 20 (before doubling...).

Pretty definite it's out of 10 before doubling, and 20 after.

[RD]

Arghh.. Damn, I forgot headline.

[xox.happy1.xox]

Well since its out of 10, I highly doubt you'd lose one whole mark for not putting a headline. That just seems too harsh,.

It says on the exam that each of the three sections are out of 20 (before doubling...).

Pretty definite it's out of 10 before doubling, and 20 after.

But the whole exam is out of 60 marks.

[shinny]

I think that's because English is one of the only exams that is marked twice by default, so it's not exactly 'doubled' per se.

[username]

What would 7/10 across all three give you as a SS, would anyone know?

[xox.happy1.xox]

What would 7/10 across all three give you as a SS, would anyone know?

Well that comes to 21/30 (or 42/60), which constitutes a high B+ (1 mark off an A matter-of-factly) according to last years scaling report ---> http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vce/statistics/2007/section3/vce_english_ga07.pdf

Not sure about study score, as I don't have a general feel of your SAC results. However, if they were similar, then they would be along the lines of B+,B+,B+, which would get you anywhere between 35 and 38.

Good luck.

[username]

What would 7/10 across all three give you as a SS, would anyone know?

Well that comes to 21/30 (or 42/60), which constitutes a high B+ (1 mark off an A matter-of-factly) according to last years scaling report ---> http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vce/statistics/2007/section3/vce_english_ga07.pdf

Not sure about study score, as I don't have a general feel of your SAC results. However, if they were similar, then they would be along the lines of B+,B+,B+, which would get you anywhere between 35 and 38.

Good luck.

Aw but Eriny was 2 marks from an A+ and only got a 37.

[xox.happy1.xox]

What would 7/10 across all three give you as a SS, would anyone know?

Well that comes to 21/30 (or 42/60), which constitutes a high B+ (1 mark off an A matter-of-factly) according to last years scaling report ---> http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vce/statistics/2007/section3/vce_english_ga07.pdf

Not sure about study score, as I don't have a general feel of your SAC results. However, if they were similar, then they would be along the lines of B+,B+,B+, which would get you anywhere between 35 and 38.

Good luck.

Aw but Eriny was 2 marks from an A+ and only got a 37.

Nah, she got a 38 and 3 A's. (I also believe she should have gotten higher. :S)