27 January 2023
By email
: [FYI request #21391 email]
Dear Will
I refer to your information request dated 11 December 2022 made under the Official Information Act
1982 (the Act). You have requested mark and grade distributions for all 300-level FINC papers in 2022.
Subject to the following comments, please see attached the information you have requested. Please
note that there are two sheets in the attached document (one for each Semester).
• we note that the grade and mark distributions for the Semester 2 FINC303 and FINC306
papers have not been finalised yet as there may be special examinations outstanding and the
grades for some students have not been finalised. We will release the grade and mark
distributions for these papers once all student results have been finalised – we anticipate that
these will be finalised by the end of February.
• on occasions where fewer than five students have failed a paper (i.e. received a grade of Fail D
or Fail E), we determine 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. We note that this is not
applicable to the information that we have attached, but may be applicable in the mark and
grade distributions for FINC303 and FINC306 once all student marks have been finalised.
• in the attached grade and mark distributions, we note that students who withdrew from the
papers or received an Aegrotat Pass grade (not a mark) are excluded from the data.
I trust that this information will be helpful. We will be back in touch once the mark and grade
distributions for the Semester 2 2022 FINC303 and FINC306 papers have been finalised.
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