Is 80 % Good enough ?
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standardization
So does all this basically mean that if there is a 'brighter' cohort taking the test this year then a candidate will have to score 90% rather than 85% , regardless of age?
I am more confused than ever!!
I am more confused than ever!!
thankyou for the reassurance Patricia, regarding "silly mistakes" , the problem areas were vocab (especially opposites and similars) she would generally randomly guess these! the questions with numbers in brackets 5 (15) 10. She panicks when she sees them but when we go over the answers she usually finds the answers before me! we've practiced these repeatedly she lacks condfidence. She could loose as many as 7/8 marks through mistakes and random guessing hence her scores are quite inconsistent. we tried some of the tutors papers-9b and 10b 70/80 and 11 and 12b 72 and 73/80 Bright Sparks paper 1 74/80. I wondered if the tutors papers are all of equal difficulty and how they and bright sparks compare to the real test.
Re: standardization
Yes, this is absolutely right Jane. Excluding standardisation by age, the average standardised score (111 in Bucks) is given to pupils with average raw score. The pass mark is calculated accordingly and consequently will vary from year to year depending of the difficulty of the papers but also on the cohort level.jayne wrote:So does all this basically mean that if there is a 'brighter' cohort taking the test this year then a candidate will have to score 90% rather than 85% , regardless of age?