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Qualification => IGCSE/ GCSE => Queries => Topic started by: Darth Austrakast on May 15, 2010, 05:21:59 am

Title: Grading System Of Edexcel
Post by: Darth Austrakast on May 15, 2010, 05:21:59 am

Is there any scaling system for Edexcel A levels AS?
if so how is it done? can anybody please explain?
how do they calculate the final marks?
thanx  ;)

Title: Re: Grading System Of Edexcel
Post by: lupilipid on May 17, 2010, 08:09:28 am

There is no fixed grading system.They change it every year depending upon the candidate's performance.
This shows that Edexcel is so dumb

Title: Re: Grading System Of Edexcel
Post by: Saladin on May 17, 2010, 08:10:45 am

Quote from: lupilipid on May 17, 2010, 08:09:28 am

There is no fixed grading system.They change it every year depending upon the candidate's performance.
This shows that Edexcel is so dumb

No, there is the UMS. This is basically a tabular version of the curves.
Every exam is harder or easier to candidates, and thus, no set raw mark can be made a boundary.

Title: Re: Grading System Of Edexcel
Post by: Igcseboy on May 18, 2010, 06:17:24 pm

Quote from: Engraved on May 17, 2010, 08:10:45 am

No, there is the UMS. This is basically a tabular version of the curves.
Every exam is harder or easier to candidates, and thus, no set raw mark can be made a boundary.

ya so they basically set up a threshold depending on the difficulty of the paper

Title: Re: Grading System Of Edexcel
Post by: Saladin on August 24, 2010, 03:53:55 am

Quote from: Igcseboy on May 18, 2010, 06:17:24 pm

ya so they basically set up a threshold depending on the difficulty of the paper

Thats pretty much it! ;)