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Offline secureprivacy

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CIE glitch?
« on: January 24, 2011, 02:52:43 am »
About 10s of guys (no coincidence here i think) at my school are getting 100% for Chemistry, Physics, and Biology. Is this a glitch?
Anyone?
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Re: CIE glitch?
« Reply #1 on: January 24, 2011, 05:00:41 am »
which country do u live in mate?
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Re: CIE glitch?
« Reply #2 on: January 24, 2011, 05:15:29 am »
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Re: CIE glitch?
« Reply #3 on: January 24, 2011, 05:21:46 am »
yeah same. We have this girl who got 100% for all her subjects =P if that's not a glitch then its pretty amazing
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Re: CIE glitch?
« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2011, 06:21:45 am »
Oh haha yeah we have a guy here whos 100 percented all his subjects. What school are you from?
And to everyone outside NZ, any glitches?
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Re: CIE glitch?
« Reply #5 on: January 24, 2011, 09:10:22 am »
I'm in Senior College at the moment in Auckland. U? And yeah, I'm curious as to whether any non-Newzealanders are experiencing the same thing
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Re: CIE glitch?
« Reply #6 on: January 24, 2011, 11:42:12 am »
Same thing happened to some people at my school... Macleans College. My results seemed far higher than I expected as well (no 100s though), so either there's a glitch or the marks have been scaled up by a very large amount this time. I read an article which said that there were a record number of A stars and As this session, so it may be the scaling after all...
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Re: CIE glitch?
« Reply #7 on: January 26, 2011, 04:01:30 pm »
Not good.
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Re: CIE glitch?
« Reply #8 on: January 27, 2011, 08:03:15 am »
those are the percentiles
i got it in coordinated science
it's nothing to be excited about
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Re: CIE glitch?
« Reply #9 on: January 27, 2011, 08:10:26 am »
Yes. Here as well. One student in my school got 100 in Computing AS. Another got 100 in physics AS.

I've heard (not confirmed) that CIE is adopting a marking system based on the country. Like, for one country, the max mark is 100. The highest mark in the world is where the scale is the highest.
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Re: CIE glitch?
« Reply #10 on: January 27, 2011, 08:33:28 am »
i have no idea about that , but in most A Level syllabuses ,

A candidate who achieves
… the minimum mark necessary for a Grade A obtains a percentage uniform mark of 80

that does not mean you need 80% of the total marks to get an A
it means the marks set by cambridge for the achievement of grade A with minimum marks is equal to 80%

and a 100% isn't a 100% .. you're bound to make mistakes. CIE is tough.
it means you got more than the minimum marks required for A* but those marks map onto 100%
my guess is, anything above 170/200 was equal to that in my exam but i'm sure for Math it was around 185/200.
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