FOI22/23 087 Higher Economics Top Marks

Date published: 08/11/2022

FOI reference: 22/23 087

Date received: 24/10/2022

Date responded: 08/11/2022

Information requested

Please provide me with the following information:

(1)  the number of higher economics students who achieved full marks in their assignments from the years 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021

(2) assignment topic/title beside each full mark candidate

(3) the number of students per year achieving full marks (100%) in their higher economics EXAM (excluding assignment)

(4) list the top 5 per year for the most commonly used assignment topics for higher economics for the years 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021

(5) the percentage of marks for each candidate from 0-10 , 11-20 , 21-27 , 28-30  for the higher economics assignment.

if anyone of the following information is unable to be given out, please continue with any requests that are available and make clear why you could not include the requests you did not and also make clear WHICH information you did not include e.g (5) (6) etc

Response

The information for questions 1, 3 and 5 are contained within the spreadsheet.

As required under Section 17 of FOISA, if we do not hold information requested, we must advise you accordingly. We are unable to provide any information for questions 2 and 4 as the SQA does not hold information relating to assignment topics.

Documents:

FOI22/23 087 Higher Economics Top Marks Information Sheet (16 KB)