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2025 2 marks Short answer Software Automation (Year 12) Logistic regression
NESA 2025 HSC Software Engineering exam (online) - Marking Guidelines
Six scenarios, each ticked true or false. The ticked (correct) scenarios were: Identifying whether a received email is spam; Determining the outcome of a two-party election; Working out if someone will be admitted to a university course. NOT ticked: Calculating house prices based on land size; Investigating the relationship between height and weight; Estimating the rate at which a contagious illness will spread. [Question stem not published; topic is logistic regression per the mapping grid.]
Marking criteria
2: True or false correct for all SIX check boxes. 1: Correct for FOUR of the six.
Sample answer
True: spam, two-party election outcome, university admission (all yes/no classification). False: house prices, height v weight, spread rate (continuous values: linear/polynomial regression).