Im looking at my Gcse results sheet and I'm confused :)?

Question

The marks it says I have are more that what the exam was out of,

For example, In my Chemistry Exam that was out of 45, It says 80.

I know that its not at mistake but will someone explain the system to me?

Thanks!!

Answer 1

Hmm...  Was the second number a percentage?

I get very confused about these sheets as well...  Lol.

I hope you find it out!

Answer 2

well i did ocr science and its doubled or something but i dont know about yours, my overall one was 300  

Answer 3

I assume your doing AQA

These are two different scores. 45 is known as a raw score. This is how many answers you got correct. Your teacher should be able to tell you the max score.

This is then standardised into a UMS score (universal mark scheme) which is in your case 80.

the top UMS score in my case for each subject was 50 but the max raw score was 36 i believe.

The UMS exsists so comparisons can be made between differnet subjects. It is simialr to a percentage but many not be out of 100.

Hope this helps.

  

Answer 4

similar too my brother