How hard is a 40 in Psych?

[YenEe94]

But the thing is, what really distinguishes 'harsh' marking with 'lenient' marking? Because usually theres always a right or straight up wrong answer.. anyone know?

[Slumdawg]

But the thing is, what really distinguishes 'harsh' marking with 'lenient' marking? Because usually theres always a right or straight up wrong answer.. anyone know?

umm well they just accept a lot less detailed answers.

E.g. unit 3 2010, one question where they were too lenient was with "what stage of sleep does sleeptalking occur in?" And they accepted any stage. So 98% of the state got a mark there. When actually the correct answer is stage 4 NREM. See how that's being lenient? If the rumours are correct, then they'll just be accepting very broad answers isn't of not awarding marks for them.

[REBORN]

Note that the only 'logical' reason that they'd do this is because otherwise the A+ cut off would be too low.

[SamiJ]

It depends a lot on the year and the rest of the state. If everyone goes amazing, it is going to be harder to get a higher score. If everyone one goes shocking, it won't be so hard. It changes every year so it all depends, sometimes B to A could get you there, other times you'll need all A+. Hope I helped 

[tony3272]

It depends a lot on the year and the rest of the state. If everyone goes amazing, it is going to be harder to get a higher score. If everyone one goes shocking, it won't be so hard. It changes every year so it all depends, sometimes B to A could get you there, other times you'll need all A+. Hope I helped 

B's will never get you a 40. If the entire year does shocking, then the mark for an A+ will be lower, but you will still need to get A+'s.

[playsimme]

My teacher said someone got a 43 with a B+ on the midyear..

[tony3272]

That's if you pretty much get a high B+ and then very high A+'s for the other 2 GAs. But what i meant was that 3 B's or 3 B+'s cannot get you a 40.

[Slumdawg]

My teacher said someone got a 43 with a B+ on the midyear..

Yep. That can happen. But the number of people who achieve something in the 40s with a B+ is literally like 3-4 people out of the 16000+ doing the subject.. That's just an estimate, but probably an accurate one at that. Something like that is EXTREMELY rare. Just know that 40+ requires a lot of work, if you get a B+ on the mid year hope is not completely lost but prepare yourself to work exponentially harder than you did on unit 3 to get in the 40s.