Pass mark!

System
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edited June 18 in AAT student discussion
I think last years exams pass mark (foundation) was 50% but i heard someone say yesterday that the exam was 80%. Does anyone know what the actual percentage pass marks are for the intermediate exams this year?

Need the exam to be over with now... i cant study anymore!

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  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
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    My tutor mentioned when he was marking one of my mocks that if I had got another mark I would have passed. I had sixty something percent, so the one mark would have taken me up to 70%. So I think the pass mark is 70% on both sections but I could be wrong.
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    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
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    The past mark isnt decided untill the exams are done and marked. So if a lot of people done very well, i.e the exam was easy, then the pass mark will be upped. So no-one knows the pass mark yet. You can only go on the pass mark last year really as guidance.
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    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
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    Effectively, because of the way the pass mark is calculated, you could get 95% but if 70% of all exams taken scored 100%, you would fail. Now doesn't that suck?!! :?

    Having read some of the comments on the ECR exam, however, I don't think many people will be coming out with much more than 70% so relax, it's all over till June!! :lol:
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    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
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    One of the tutors at my college marks some of the exams from elsewhere in the country. He said to us that circa 70% for both section 1 and 2 was required.

    If one question, such as the BEP & MOS one that seems to have caused so much trouble, is a problem and most people get it wrong, then in January when they assess the paper, they will add less weight to that question, and a little more to one which had higher success.

    This way, if a question is nationally recognised to be too difficult for intermediate students, the marks carried by that question will be reduced, meaning you have a better chance of passing, because the one you got wrong wasn't so important in the big scheme of things.
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    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
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    So is c!!

    If there are lots of 'passes' the pass mark is reduced and vice versa! I've been searching for this for a long time..

    Thanks. My mind is at rest now! :wink:
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Re:Pass mark!
    Tim03 wrote:
    Effectively, because of the way the pass mark is calculated, you could get 95% but if 70% of all exams taken scored 100%, you would fail. Now doesn't that suck?!! :?

    I'm not saying that isn't true but my understanding from FTC is that there is a pass mark or a level that is deemed 'competent' if you pass this level on both sections 1 & 2 you pass.

    That's why on the papers there aren't marks per question.

    Generally its thought to be around 70%.

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