We Were Both Right...

Hmm, it seems that OCR do actually apply a small Raw to UMS conversion - but not consistently the same amount to every grade - I'll show you all on Friday, but here's Alice's data:

So as you can see, her Raw mark (what she got out of 50 for each exam essay) was 94/100 - just like it says on her script in Fronter.

However, the UMS grade (the result that YOU all see on your results statement on results days) is 99/100.

There has clearly been a conversion - in Alice's case, it equates to 5 marks!  Brilliant!  But when looking at everyone else's raw marks to UMS, it appears that the lower down the scale you go, the smaller the conversion - so someone getting, say, 50 raw marks - the UMS conversion is only a paltry 1 or 2 marks.

I've no idea why.

I may speak to Mr V tomorrow as I seem to remember some kind of curved graph from the dark days of GCSE maths that may explain this conversion thing.