Learning how they examine you in med school...

According to Hofstee's method, the external examiners and judges need to answer 4 questions:

1. What is the minimum acceptable pass mark?
2. What is the maximum acceptable pass mark?
3. How many students are the minimum fail rate?
4. How many students can you afford to fail before it becomes politically unacceptable?

Using this retrospective method, the distribution of test scores is graphed out after the test, and after identifying the maximum and minimum pass mark and the minimum and maximum fail rate, a diagonal line is drawn through the box, and where it meets the distribution of scores, that score is the pass mark.

It therefore depends on how many students your university is comfortable with failing to determine what the pass marks are...

We always knew that they used the CURVE...

Also, do you know the difference between setting an examination paper and setting the standard?

Apparently in med school, the exams are designed to see if you are fit to practice medicine or not rather than if you will become an excellent doctor...