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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Dear Mark and colleagues<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">All assessors are required not to discuss any matters dealing with the marking of the papers – this applies to every study.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au
[mailto:itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au] <b><span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of
</span></b>Mark Scott<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, 19 May 2011 1:02 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] 2010 ITA examiners' report</span></font><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
11.0pt">Cab anybody who marked the VCAA papers confirm that this was indeed the answer that they were supplied with to mark the papers?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
11.0pt">Pls reply to Mark K or myself (and not to the whole group) and we will keep your identity anonymous.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:
11.0pt">Mark Scott<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Luther</span></font></st1:PlaceName><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceName></span></font></st1:place><font size="2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">
itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au [mailto:itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au] <b><span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of
</span></b>Mark KELLY<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, 19 May 2011 12:09 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> [Year 12 IT Apps] 2010 ITA examiners' report<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><b><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold">From the 2010 ITA Exam - Question 5B. </span></font></b> I have a belated complaint now that I've seen the examiner's official
answer in the <a href="http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vcaa/vce/studies/infotech/it-applications/assessreports/2010/itapps_assessrep_10.pdf">
assessment report</a>.<br>
<br>
Can someone please point out if I'm wrong, but I think they've badly messed up the answer, and kids will have unfairly lost up to 4 marks.<br>
<br>
>From the PERT chart ...<br>
<img border="0" width="541" height="245" id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CC162A.AA8FCC90" alt="b5.jpg"><br>
<br>
They asked for a corresponding Gantt chart. Their solution was this:<br>
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<img border="0" width="504" height="157" id="_x0000_i1026" src="cid:image002.gif@01CC162A.AA8FCC90" alt="assrep-gantt-solution.gif"><br clear="all">
<br>
It's obvious in the PERT that tasks A and B are <b><span style="font-weight:
bold">concurrent</span></b>.
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">B is not dependent on A</span></b>! <br>
Yet in their Gantt, they've clearly shown task B as being dependent on A.<br>
Then, they went on to leave out fact that that tasks E and D were also dependent on task B through the dummy task.<br>
<br>
I hate to think that my kids lost marks because of these errors by the examiners.
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It's too late to re-mark exams, but it really makes me worry that markers can be given such dodgy official answers when grading papers.<br>
<br>
<b><font size="4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-weight:bold">Grrrrr!<br>
<br>
</span></font></b><br>
-- <br>
Mark Kelly<br>
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