1st in course

[bananna]

Hi !
 
question:

Is it true that if a person that comes like 3rd overall after trials and gets the highest mark (of their school) in the actual HSC, that their mark goes to the person who came 1st?

confusing wording (I'm sorry) but my friend told me that and I was a bit unsure.
I'm nowhere near 1st for any of my subjects haha but was just curious


thanks!

[Opengangs]

From memory, I believe it goes like this. (don't quote me on it, though)
The person who comes first in the course will "take" the highest external mark as their internal mark, and the person who comes last will "take" the lowest external mark as their internal mark. Everyone else will get scaled accordingly, with raw ranking and mark difference as the main factors that contribute.

Keep in mind that the external (HSC) mark you get will not be affected. Whatever you get as your external is yours to keep.

Let's assume that there are four people in the class.

Student | Internal rank | internal mark | external mark
A | 1 | 97 | 82
B | 2 | 95 | 98
C | 3 | 82 | 96
D | 4 | 81 | 89

Now, we can see that student A is first in the course, so automatically, (s)he will be assigned the highest external mark as their internal mark.
We can also see that student D is last in the course, so automatically, (s)he will be assigned the lowest external mark as their internal mark.
Everyone else will be scaled accordingly.

So, it may end up looking like this:

Student | Internal | External | HSC mark
A | 98 | 82 | 90 (band 6)
B | 94 | 98 | 96 (band 6)
C | 86 | 96 | 91 (band 6)
D | 82 | 89 | 86 (band 5)

Once again, don't quote me on it because I'm still very unsure as to the process.

[jamonwindeyer]

From memory, I believe it goes like this. (don't quote me on it, though)

You've nailed the process! Thanks Opengangs (this guide goes into the details, if anyone is interested!)

[bananna]

Thank you so much!