GUYS CHECK THIS OUT AND TELL ME THAT IS A* AT 95%?

[cheema123]

http://www.britishcouncil.org/pakistan- ... otice6.pdf

 

[princemaazthefinal]

plz can some one explain this!!!! im confused! is A* between 90-100 or between 95-100???

 

[CaptainDanger]

It has put many of us in doubt here... Let the result come, if there are any changes we will come to know...

 

[abcde]

I remember this document caused a great deal of confusion and apprehension in our school a few months before these May/June exams. "The A* would be top half of the grade A i.e. 95 +" is only when CIE grades are converted by IBCC to get equivalent marks for admission in Pakistani universities. According to Cambridge, grade A* is still at 90% and above marks (percentile) followed by A at 80% and above marks and so on. So I believe there is nothing to worry about.

 

[SalmanPakRocks]

I remember this document caused a great deal of confusion and apprehension in our school a few months before these May/June exams. "The A* would be top half of the grade A i.e. 95 +" is only when CIE grades are converted by IBCC to get equivalent marks for admission in Pakistani universities. According to Cambridge, grade A* is still at 90% and above marks (percentile) followed by A at 80% and above marks and so on. So I believe there is nothing to worry about.

Exactly !!

 

[abcde]

 

[OakMoon!]

If anyone here has studied SCALING would understand that it doesn't matter if the Uniform Percentage Mark is 95 or 90 for an A. Once the statistical procedures are applied, any score in the actual papers could be scaled to one of the two boundaries, so in the end the actual score for e.g. 145/170 for an A* will remain the same regardless of the UPM.

 

[awaisbuttrocksCIE]

Thanks to abcde and hamid bhai for clearing this misconception.

 

[Firebender]

If anyone here has studied SCALING would understand that it doesn't matter if the Uniform Percentage Mark is 95 or 90 for an A. Once the statistical procedures are applied, any score in the actual papers could be scaled to one of the two boundaries, so in the end the actual score for e.g. 145/170 for an A* will remain the same regardless of the UPM.

errr... what? :S

 

[dragoninja98]

ok lets get this straight....nothing has changes...am i right ?

 

[leosco1995]

Yes. hamidali391 pretty much said it right.

 

[OakMoon!]

Yes. Nothing has changed, except the banning of percentage being printed on the Statement of Result.

 

[abcde]

Yes. Nothing has changed, except the banning of percentage being printed on the Statement of Result.

along with inclusion of a new grade, A*, and the subsequent shifting of UPMs for those grades since May/June 2010.

 

[OakMoon!]

But that happened last year. Plus, I don't thing they shifted the UPM. They just stopped printing it, otherwise, they don't give a damn to IBCC. It's not like they'll do everything forced upon on them.

 

[abcde]

But that happened last year. Plus, I don't thing they shifted the UPM. They just stopped printing it, otherwise, they don't give a damn to IBCC. It's not like they'll do everything forced upon on them.

Both these things happened simultaneously. They did shift it. There is an official CIE document for that!

 

[OakMoon!]

Ahan! Probably! But as I said, it doesn't changes the standard of the grade!

 

[OakMoon!]

OH! Now I know what you are talking about! But shifting of UPM took place last year, too. They had to fit in the new grade. Didn't they? Awein making me confused! The A had a new UPM of 80, previously being at 90. Wasn't it obvious?

 

[abcde]

OH! Now I know what you are talking about! But shifting of UPM took place last year, too. They had to fit in the new grade. Didn't they? Awein making me confused! The A had a new UPM of 80, previously being at 90. Wasn't it obvious?

Haha! You got confused yourself! It was an obvious CHANGE. That's all I said.