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MCQ question

  • 26-04-2012 05:10PM
    #1
    [Deleted User]
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    if you get 79% in an mcq exam, do you get 70% of the marks, 80% or 79%

    Sorry if its a dumb question!!


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  • #2
    Parsley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,144 ✭✭✭Parsley


    79%..?


  • #3
    MikeCork2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,208 ✭✭✭MikeCork2009


    You get 79%.

    MCQ is normally part of continuous assessment and is added to your overall final grade. Individual elements of overall assessment for a module (projects, essays, inclass tests etc) are not rounded up, but when they are all put together (with the final/summer exam) and if you are close (within 1/2 %) to a grade then they are normally rounded up for example:

    Inclass MCQ Exam (worth 20%) say you get 79% - That's 15.8% of overall

    Final Exam (worth 80%) say you get 67% - That's 53.6% of overall

    So for the module overall you got 69.4% - Then you'd be rounded up to 70%

    Hope that helps :)


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