Exam Paper Mark Adjustments {SSTUD6-1}

There are three facilities on the system for the programmatic adjustment of marks:

The first facility adjusts the marks in individual examination papers and is intended for statistical adjustments of marks to more closely resemble a normal distribution.

The second facility is for the adjustment of final marks in borderline cases. This could, for instance, be used to adjust a mark of 49 to say 50.

The third facility is for the restriction of final marks to 50% for a specified examination type and is intended for adjustment of a supplementary or re-examination final mark, where the rules specify that the final mark may not be more than 50%.

In the case of the adjustment of examination paper marks, it is assumed that the statistical analysis, which would determine the desirable amount of adjustment, will be done outside the system. When the percentage adjustment that has to be applied to any interval of marks has been determined, the results are entered under this option.

Fields in this option:

Panel Box 1: Examination Paper Marks Adjustments

Field	Type & Length	Description
Exam Year	YYYY	The user must enter the Exam year for which the record must be updated.
Exam Month	N2	The user must enter the Exam Month for which the record must be updated.
Subject Code	A7	The code of the subject for which marks must be adjusted. The name of the subject is displayed.
Paper Number	N1	The number of the examination paper for which adjustments must be done.
Low Percentage	N3	The lowest value of the range to which the adjustment applies.
High Percentage	N3	The highest value of the range to which the adjustment applies.
Adjustment Percentage	N3	The percentage adjustment applicable to the specified range. Any value between -100 and 100 is allowed.
		Several records are normally specified for one exam paper. Note: The user must ensure that the records entered under this option are consistent, the interval ranges should not overlap and the percentage changes in subsequent intervals should also be consistent. If this is not the case, the resulting changes could be unpredictable. To assist the user in ensuring that the adjustments were correctly defined, option {SSTUD6-21} may be requested, which displays the subject name and code followed by the STATS code, the paper number and the adjustment relevant to the specified percentage range.

Example:

History of Changes

Date	System Version	By Whom	Job	Description
11-Mar-2007	v01.0.0.0	Amanda Nell	T133931	New manual format.
24-Nov-2008	v01.0.0.0	Magda van der Westhuizen	T151710	Update manual: Language Editing: Juliet Gillies.
01-APR-2019	v04.1.0.0	Beulah Vries	T231498	Update Manual and insert image for INT4.1