Friday, 26 July 2013

DD203 - Power, Dissent, Equality : Results are in, and a week early!

There has obviously been a downward shifting of grade boundaries, because I somehow scraped a  Pass1.

The overall result from 385 students was,

A B C D E/F/G
No. of Students 15 116 161 76 17
Percentage 4% 30% 42% 20% 4%

So, if only 4% got an overall 'A' in the exam the awards panel can move grade boundaries to meet whatever 'bell curve' of passes they aim for. It also means that the exam and marking must have been fairly rigorous  given the results above.

I did the two most popular questions and also the least popular,

Q1 = 225
Q3 = 276
Q9 = 39

My tutor suggested Q9 was the least answered historically and so if you attempted that at least the marker would be reading something different, and you may benefit from being slightly different from the norm. This may have been the case as Q9 was my best result.

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