A* help O.o

[JustAnotherPerson22]

Hey guys, the other day someone told me, he did three exam papers of the same subject and hes expecting A*s in two of the papers, and A in the last.
So i was wondering would they total all those marks gained then find the percentage grade from the total marks for the whole three papers?

 

[steaminferno]

He can't get A* in two of the papers. A* does not exist at the level of an individual component. The max he can get in them is an A.

On a side note, different papers have different weightings and are valued differently. So they won't just add up all the marks he got in the three papers.

Nobody knows how A* is calculated by CIE but we know that it does not individual component. You can get A* overall but not in one of the papers.

 

[Nizmo63]

Well you get an overall grade anyway , its not like you get a grade per paper , your final grade is an allocation of all your results , so saying A* does not exist at an individual component is irrelevant because no grades exist at individual components , and yes they get your final % from the total marks gained divided by total possible marks , its not a difficult concept to grasp , and an A * is probably along the lines of top 5 % grades achieved in that year

Dude different weightings means a papers total marks are less then another papers total marks , its not a currency where the value of the marks are worth less , for example in math ,paper 2's total marks are 70 and paper 4 are 130 , they have different weightings in that sense only. A lot of people seem to misunderstand the simple manner in which your grades are obtained.

 

[steaminferno]

Well you get an overall grade anyway , its not like you get a grade per paper , your final grade is an allocation of all your results , so saying A* does not exist at an individual component is irrelevant because no grades exist at individual components , and yes they get your final % from the total marks gained divided by total possible marks , its not a difficult concept to grasp , and an A * is probably along the lines of top 5 % grades achieved in that year

Dude different weightings means a papers total marks are less then another papers total marks , its not a currency where the value of the marks are worth less , for example in math ,paper 2's total marks are 70 and paper 4 are 130 , they have different weightings in that sense only. A lot of people seem to misunderstand the simple manner in which your grades are obtained.

It actually is relevant because he said that his friend was thinking about his marks in individual papers. You do get a grade for individual papers and grades to exist at individual components. We just aren't told what they are and they don't really matter. Only the overall grade matters.

Your completely wrong about paper weightings. It's not that simple. The weightings have nothing to do with total marks. Calculate the total marks of papers as a percentage of the total of all total marks and you'll find that your percentage does not correspond with the weighting.

In chemistry paper 6 has a weighting of 20% while paper 1 has a weighting of 30%.
Yet the total marks for paper 6 are 60 while the total marks for paper 1 are 40.