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0 pointscuteboy193y ago0 comments

Yes, it's actually much harder. But the final results are group by category order by rank. There is negative marking to discourage guessing, so the cutoff for certain categories can even be 0 or even negative

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harvey93y ago

So you could make the cut (be considered a successful exam taker) with a zero score just because a large proportion of your peers got negative scores?

This seems just as unhelpful for deciding who to hire or who to allow onto a higher course of study as the campaigns we have seen on some USA university campuses to give all students an automatic A grade.

cuteboy19OP3y ago

That is the cost of equity.

Note that the system also has many holes, so the categorization isn't perfect. Its possible for a large number of students to belong to the categories only on paper. So you don't even get equity in the end.

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harvey93y ago

So you could make the cut (be considered a successful exam taker) with a zero score just because a large proportion of your peers got negative scores?

cuteboy19OP3y ago

That is the cost of equity.

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