Thursday, June 21, 2007
so far....
so good! We have TWO perfect scores, one from Honors, one from Regents!...more updates later!
now make that THREE perfect scores! and TWO unbelievably near misses; question 63 states that the volume of Ne was 24.4 L NOT 22.4 L; that was a total psyche-out but it shows the IMPORTANCE of CAREFULLY READING, UNDERLINING, CIRCLING key data and TRIPLE-CHECKING YOUR ANSWERS! Oh well, getting 84 out of 85 is something to be extremely proud of!
TWO, make that THREE more 100's were prevented by not checking the melting point of LEAD directly on Table S AND converting the Kelvin temperature to Celsius. Anyone can make that error but that mistake is easily caught upon reviewing your work.
Again, super scores (!!!) but they could have been the ultimate with just a little more explicit checking.
NOW, for my rant AGAINST the NY State Regents Board:
LOOK AT THE UNFAIR SCALE that they make us use to grade the Regents:
Chemistry Regents scale June 2007
Notice that there are NO 99's ! No 97's! No 94's! No 91's!
Take ANY score above a 76 (divide the number correct by 85 to get the true percent correct answers) and see that your score was scaled DOWN by about THREE POINTS!!!
So, just know that I KNOW that you did better than your NY State Regents "scaled (down)" score. NOTICE ALSO that people who got ONLY 56% of the credits got a 65 scaled score !!! So, those who did very well (you guys) were significantly penalized, and those who "failed" were lifted over the passing bar. Way to go NY Board of Regents. Don't bother complaining to them either; they will NEVER change no matter what happens. It is a nameless, faceless bureaucracy that answers to nobody.
now make that THREE perfect scores! and TWO unbelievably near misses; question 63 states that the volume of Ne was 24.4 L NOT 22.4 L; that was a total psyche-out but it shows the IMPORTANCE of CAREFULLY READING, UNDERLINING, CIRCLING key data and TRIPLE-CHECKING YOUR ANSWERS! Oh well, getting 84 out of 85 is something to be extremely proud of!
TWO, make that THREE more 100's were prevented by not checking the melting point of LEAD directly on Table S AND converting the Kelvin temperature to Celsius. Anyone can make that error but that mistake is easily caught upon reviewing your work.
Again, super scores (!!!) but they could have been the ultimate with just a little more explicit checking.
NOW, for my rant AGAINST the NY State Regents Board:
LOOK AT THE UNFAIR SCALE that they make us use to grade the Regents:
Chemistry Regents scale June 2007
Notice that there are NO 99's ! No 97's! No 94's! No 91's!
Take ANY score above a 76 (divide the number correct by 85 to get the true percent correct answers) and see that your score was scaled DOWN by about THREE POINTS!!!
So, just know that I KNOW that you did better than your NY State Regents "scaled (down)" score. NOTICE ALSO that people who got ONLY 56% of the credits got a 65 scaled score !!! So, those who did very well (you guys) were significantly penalized, and those who "failed" were lifted over the passing bar. Way to go NY Board of Regents. Don't bother complaining to them either; they will NEVER change no matter what happens. It is a nameless, faceless bureaucracy that answers to nobody.
# posted by C @ 4:58 PM 
