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mark scaling?

SolidSnake

How are the marks scaled in A level exams? For example, say the exam was out of 60, how do they make it out of 90?

Reply 1

saiyamanadingdongbanana

SolidSnake

How are the marks scaled in A level exams? For example, say the exam was out of 60, how do they make it out of 90?

Well, say you got 30/60 and need to convert it to /90 just do;

30 * 90 / 60 = 45

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Reply 2

pretty

nt dat simple at al al marks r UMS'd 2 gt dem out of 90
standard deviation is carrid out 2 c wot marks went 2 hw many ppl den der r grade boundaries if u in certain brade boundary ur marks wil be put higher den anotha jus say u in da A cat which 4 most papers is 41/60 den u will b favoured more den sum1 in B i mean i gt 45/60 in bio den gt 94/100

Reply 3

SinghFello

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pretty

nt dat simple at al al marks r UMS'd 2 gt dem out of 90
standard deviation is carrid out 2 c wot marks went 2 hw many ppl den der r grade boundaries if u in certain brade boundary ur marks wil be put higher den anotha jus say u in da A cat which 4 most papers is 41/60 den u will b favoured more den sum1 in B i mean i gt 45/60 in bio den gt 94/100

Cant you type properly? Im not even going to bother reading that!

Anyway, marks are not just converted straight into UMS marks. THe exam boards use statistics to set the "value added" based on factors such as the medium mark, the number of people who sat the exam ect. Each individual exam has a unique multiplier.

Reply 4

pretty

well its seems to me pretty simple to read to me. Doesn't matter was just trying to help but obviously not appreciated oh yeh by the way even i can make out 'standard deviation is carried out to see what marks went to how many people' Suppose some people are just ungreatful

Reply 5

Godmaster

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SolidSnake

How are the marks scaled in A level exams? For example, say the exam was out of 60, how do they make it out of 90?

Meetings are held after the scripts hav been collected and they 'determine' the grade thresholds eg Eng lit unit 1 (out of 35)A=23 B=19 etc

Then this is processed through the computer to do the conversion. Again using the english lit example, UMS is 105..so 23/35 would scale to 84/105 19/35 to 74/105. Intermediate marks are uniformly calculated. The grade 'N' is worked out, this is twice the difference of the marks needed for A and B so 2*(23-19)=8, so to get full marks scaled you would need 31/35.

Its very confusing i know..hope this has helpd!

Reply 6

kellywood_5

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pretty

well its seems to me pretty simple to read to me. Doesn't matter was just trying to help but obviously not appreciated oh yeh by the way even i can make out 'standard deviation is carried out to see what marks went to how many people' Suppose some people are just ungreatful

To be fair, posts in 'txt' language are quite hard to read. Most people on here type in standard English :smile:

Reply 7

qpr4george

its pretty simple:

if u get say 8/100 in the exam, but were the best in the country, u will get 100 UMS marks (or whatever the paper was out of)

if u get 90/100 in the exam, but actually did the best in the country, u will get a low UMS mark, the mark is representive of how u did in the exam compared to everyone else who took it, not compared to the 100% of marks possible in that specific paper!

easy!!!

What is UMS?

aiman

What is UMS?

Uniform Mark Scale. Your raw marks, ie the actual marks you get in the exam, are translated onto this. There are always 300 marks for AS and 600 for the full A-level, and the grade boundaries are fixed. It's always 40% for an E, 50% for a D, 60% for a C, 70% for a B and 80% for an A. So even if your UMS is 300/300, you didn't necessarily get full marks in your exams. It's confusing :confused:

Reply 10

username5154

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The mark scaling stuff is explained at the back of the certificate and the statement of results.

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