2017 scoring - Birmingham

[rajster]

What is the highest score achieved this year? sorry asking for a friend who lives in Birmingham but doesn't have an account

[Moana]

My boy got 233.

Other scores of people in the same class and part of clubs he does:
Boys: 226, 234, 251, 171, 210, 206
Girls: 212, 214, 224, 265, 228, 252

Have people been visiting the schools this week with their children?
Thanks

[rajster]

let me rephrase my question What is the maximum score possible?

[Tamworthbay]

let me rephrase my question What is the maximum score possible?

If you have a look there are a couple of threads about this questions, it's not a simple answer of this number or that number.

[excitedmumanddad]

I have seen a post saying that a standardised score of 141 is possible for each section. Guess that would make it 282? Also pls refer to the first page of this discussion. nervousmom has compiled a data list of disclosed scores.. you can also go to previous year’s chats for more data sets...

[nervousmom]

We now how 220 scores! Here is a list of the top 9 scores I.e most scores in that bracket.

222 x 8
217 x 7
214 x 6
200 x 6
242 x 5
236 x 5
210 x 5
199 x 5
195 x 5

[Faisal2110]

Not my son but I know of a student who got 273. I have also seen the letter to confirm this!!! Amazing. I also know of a girl who got 254 in the same class as my son.

[Rum2005]

Hi my daughter got 236. Her friends got 204,185,195,221,

[boys02]

DS2 SCORED 226. X

[excitedmumanddad]

I have collated a few scores, from this forum and from people I know who have taken this year's exam, there are only 160 scores, but I'm getting the feel that this year the scores seem to be lower( this is purely an exercise of a few scores, so can no way be considered an accurate representation of overall scores)

The whole point of standardisation is to reduce scores to a common basis year on year so that the average score, every single year, is 200 (or more accurately, the average score on each of the two sections is 100).

If you can collect a representative selection of scores (but you can't, because people scoring below what they expect to be a qualifying score will be more reluctant to share) you will simply see the average score tending more towards 200 the more scores you collect.

It's entirely possible for the highest and lowest scores to vary from year to year because they depend on individual children, but the average will always be around 200.

um is entirely correct to suggest that the larger number of applicants might mean slightly higher qualifying scores but the effect should be small in any single year and might be lost in the "noise" (i.e. the variation in numbers applying to individual schools from year to year).

Mike

Thanks mike1880. We first heard about 200 being the average during the CHB head master talk when he dwelled into averages, cut offs etc. Can girls and boys have different test paper formats? Is it possible that boys found the exam harder (hence lower scores) and girls found the paper easier (hence higher scores)? I am only projecting a hypothetical scenario (not making any claims - please forgive the nature of my question) and better understand complexity of cut offs.