12 Assessment and Reporting
12.8 Reporting Student Performance Against Standards
Student performance in an HSC course will be reported against standards on a course report. The course report contains a performance scale for the course describing levels (bands) of achievement, an HSC examination mark and the internal assessment mark. It will also show, graphically, the statewide distribution of examination marks of all students in the course.
Each band on the performance scale (except for band 1) includes descriptions that summarise the attainments typically demonstrated in that band.
The distribution of marks will be determined by students' performances against the standards and not scaled to a predetermined pattern of marks.