(17-01-2011, 06:25 PM)BedfordBoy Wrote: I was very surprised to hear that increasing the number of questions from 2 to 3 has made little difference to the pass rate for module 1.
Someone please tell me the markers aren't still looking for the same level of depth for each answer as for previous years.
Since a 30 min answer has now become a 20 min answer, hopefully it only has to be 2/3 as detailed compared to previous years to get the same marks. Did someone forget to tell the markers?
Any thoughts, from markers or others?
We will be given the figures on Thursday and indeed I hope we will get the exam committee to comment on this very topic. However I am sure that the markers would have been acutely aware of the change; whether it is possible to do justice to a question in 2 minutes is something else- I must say that I personally have my doubts.
Having tried to judge those attempts from Brisbane group to do a previous year's mod 1 question within 20 mins in the final run up to the exam, I certainly felt that it wasn't likely to be a very satisfactory means of assessment- the answetrs were quite superficial, but understandably so.
To me this arrangement came about very last minute as a compromise between the desire to get 3 questions into the paper and the constraint of not lengthening the exam day- I have my prejudices but I certainly will be interested to find out how it was from the examiner's perspective.
PJW