5 December 2022
By email:
[FYI request #21066 email]
Dear Jeremy
I refer to your information request dated 7 November 2022 made under the Official Information Act
1982 (the Act). You have requested grade and mark distributions for the INFO407, INFO408,
INFO410, INFO411, INFO420 and INFO424 papers from 2019 – 2022.
Subject to the following comments, please find attached the information you have requested. Please
note that there are four sheets in the attached document (one for each year).
• please note that not all papers were offered year, therefore we have only provided mark
and grade distributions for the years that the papers were offered:
o INFO407 was not offered between 2019 – 2022
o INFO410 was not offered in 2020 or 2022
• on occasions where fewer than five students have failed a paper (i.e. received a grade of Fail
D, Fail E or Failed Compulsory Assessment), we have determined that it is necessary to
withhold the marks and specific grades for these students to protect their privacy and
wellbeing. We consider that withholding this information is necessary to protect against the
identity of these students being determined or inferred, and their personal information (i.e.
their marks) could be disclosed. We therefore withhold this information pursuant to section
9(2)(a) of the Act.
• on occasions where there are fewer than ten enrolments in a paper, we have also
determined that it is necessary to withhold the mark and grade distributions for these
papers to protect the privacy and wellbeing of students enrolled. Where class sizes are
small, we consider that withholding this information is necessary to protect against the
identity of these students being determined or inferred, and their personal information (i.e.
their marks) being disclosed. We therefore withhold the following mark and grade
distributions pursuant to section 9(2)(a) of the Act:
o 2019: INFO408 (6 enrolments), INFO410 (1 enrolment), INFO420 (5 enrolments),
INFO424 (4 enrolments)
o 2021: INFO410 (5 enrolments), INFO424 (7 enrolments)
o 2022: INFO408 (9 enrolments), INFO424 (8 enrolments)
• in the attached grade and mark distributions, we note that students who withdrew from the
papers are excluded from the data.
I trust that this information will be helpful.
In the above cases, we consider that good reasons exist for withholding information and this is not
outweighed by other considerations which would make it desirable, in the public interest, to make
the information available. If you are not satisfied with our response to your information request,
section 28(3) of the Act provides you with the right to ask an Ombudsman to investigate and review
this response. However, we would welcome the opportunity to discuss any concerns with you first.
Yours sincerely
Kelsey Kennard
Official Information and Compliance Coordinator
Office of the Registrar