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Software developer and copywriter. I do not strongly prefer Figma or Sketch.
Jan 20, 2021 16 tweets 5 min read
Spent some time last night looking through the Ofqual doc on grading GCSE and A Level exams this summer. Realised I didn't really know how these exams are graded usually... No prizes for guessing that it's not exactly straight forward.

Here's a thread on what I found. There are two main ways in which grade boundaries can be determined: Criterion based, or normal distribution based.

Via @daisychristo – daisychristodoulou.com/2013/11/norm-r…