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king_of_wrong

Exams: the story so far

Jun 02, 2004 12:30

Yesterday was the second of two CST papers. With the mark allocation and assessed practical work this means that 60% of the marks have already been decided.

( Maths Practicals )

predictions, exams

Comments 9

the_aviator June 2 2004, 05:24:43 UTC

Smart ass :p

king_of_wrong June 2 2004, 07:10:12 UTC

Well, that's why I put it behind an LJ cut... Apparently I'm not quaking sufficiently in terror of doing v.badly in the exams, and that's putting people off...

pavanne June 2 2004, 10:57:56 UTC

I don't think it's putting anyone off their exams. However, your verbose arrogance does help me understand why some people at school didn't like me.

king_of_wrong June 2 2004, 12:31:06 UTC

verbose arrogance

I'm just happy about having done well...

If people have a problem with that, well, I guess that's more an issue for them to work out than for me. I'm certainly not going to pretend to have done badly just because someone else thinks they have. Maybe that's just the arrogance talking.

Thread 6

amgb2 June 2 2004, 10:50:08 UTC

When I picked up my Head of Class report for Physics last year, they had a nice breakdown of everyone's practical marks and how they were scaled and your actual mark was calculated from that. Did you not get that?

22/25 sounds plausible, but I'm just wondering.

king_of_wrong June 2 2004, 12:00:29 UTC

Did you not get that?

Nope. They said the HoC report was worth 20 marks and that "you can guess for yourself what mark you got". 19/20 seems plausible. The marks for the individual practicals are fairly clear and I signed the sheet to say I have 25/32 for those.

The documents available say "The overall practical mark counts 25% towards the Part IA Physics examination. Nearly 40% of this mark comes from the Head-of-Class report.". Given that 20/50 is ~40%, I'm guessing that the total is either divided by 2 to give 26% of the paper's weight or that the marks are divided by very slightly more than 2.00 to give 25%.

Either way, my practical mark shouldn't be too far from that estimate. 21(.15) marks seems plausible if it's 25%x44/52 instead of 26%x44/52.

rjw76 June 2 2004, 11:51:59 UTC

I guess this is the part where I should laugh at that 2ii/3 prediction.

I think they do it in the attempt to make lazy-but-clever people actually do some work. Happened to me last year; Brown-Noser gets predicted a first and gets a 2.2 on the paper in question, I get predicted a 2ii/3rd and get a high 2.1. Nyah.