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[SpreadTheWord]

In regards to Ancient History.

If this year was a hard test and i scored 85%. Could that get aligned to mid 90's or even early 90's ?

How do they make it fair. Like say someone gets 95% in the hard test. While someone else gets 75% (which in this case is the band 6 borderline for this exam shall we say). Surely they can't align the 75er with the 95er. Would the 95 go to a 100 or something?

Im sorry if past people have asked this before.

 

[enoilgam]

Aligning is based on the difficulty of a test. So its possible that if the test is difficult, the cutoff for mid-band 6 could drop. This is how BOS explains it "Given that student achievement is reported in terms of performance standards, one further adjustment to the total raw marks is made. This adjustment aligns the raw total marks to performance band descriptions. To achieve this alignment, a group of highly experienced markers, known as judges, decides how a student at the lower borderline of each performance band would respond to each examination item and then determines what raw marks such responses would achieve. These raw marks are then added together for each borderline, producing a recommended set of total cut-off marks. This process of alignment is multi-staged, involving the review of a collection of materials: performance band descriptions, responses in the Standards Package, statistical feedback, and responses of current-year students consistent with the cut-off marks. Once this process is complete the judges will have determined which total raw marks correspond to the borderlines between each of the performance bands. For example, it may be recommended that a mark of, say, 82 is the minimum required for Band 6, 74 for Band 5, and so on. Finally, for each band the total raw cut-off mark is mapped to the reported cut-off mark:"