scaled raw mark

SAZZY12345

can anyone tell me what scaled raw marks are for??

Reply 1

Morgan141

What do you mean exactly?

what are they??

Ums marks are raw marks that have either been scaled up or down depending on the difficulty of the exam, so for example:

An exam's raw marks are out of 50 and it's ums marks are out of 100. A student taking it got 30/50. However, it might have been a particularly difficult test so instead of just doubling the marks to get ums, you times it by something more than 2. Next year the exam might be a lot easier so they times the raw marks it by something less than the previous year. This means that marks from other years are directly comparable others.

thanks

No no no.
What you have described are UMS marks not scaled raw marks. UMS are as you described, ie they take into account the difficulty of the test. However scaled raw marks are what they sound like, they are the raw marks ie 30/50 just scaled up so that they can be added to the coursework score so that the exam and coursework are proportionate to the percentage that they are meant to take up. For example, an exam is worth 60% and coursework 40%. Person A scores 40/50 for the exam and 30/40 for the coursework. Because the scores cannot be added together to give the overall mark the raw exam mark is scaled up - 40/50 becomes 48/60. this can then be added to the coursework so that each component is waited correctly ie pwerson a ends up with 88%. Therefore there is a difference between UMS and scaled RAW marks.

Reply 6

Morgan141

My apologies, I have heard of ums marks being referred to as scaled raw marks before. What you described I must admit is the first I've heard of it.

Reply 7

calcium878

Noizuf

laura k: There is no such thing as "scaled raw marks". Scaled marks and UMS marks mean the same thing.

In GCSE they do (as far as I've gathered, the exception probably being Modern Languages) but not in AS.

Reply 8

Morgan141

Noizuf

laura k: There is no such thing as "scaled raw marks". Scaled marks and UMS marks mean the same thing.

Ah, so I'm not going mad :p:

Reply 9

laura k

im sorry but i am right. look at the examiners reports for aqa english a they show the grade boundaries for scaled raw marks so that tehy canm be added to the coursework as i discussed. aqa do not use ums marks for gcse english so i am RIGHT AND YOU ARE WRONG"!!!!!!!!!