!!!!!!Is there any way to boost your UNIT 3 sacs after completing all of them? !!!!!!

[The Usual Student]

Hey so I finished all my unit 3 sacs for EL, i don't have a good ranking in a weak cohort, hence the scaled score is not expected to be too good. However, is it possible that I could increase my GA1 score? Like if I do well in unit 4 sacs can I raise my overall average and hence it will have an affect on my UNIT 3 rank and I will get a higher scaled score? Or can I smash the exam and the GAT and hence my exam scales my GA1

Sorry if I am not clear but essentially is unit 3/4 rankings seperate or is it an overall thing or what?

[vox nihili]

Hey so I finished all my unit 3 sacs for EL, i don't have a good ranking in a weak cohort, hence the scaled score is not expected to be too good. However, is it possible that I could increase my GA1 score? Like if I do well in unit 4 sacs can I raise my overall average and hence it will have an affect on my UNIT 3 rank and I will get a higher scaled score? Or can I smash the exam and the GAT and hence my exam scales my GA1

Sorry if I am not clear but essentially is unit 3/4 rankings seperate or is it an overall thing or what?

It's all very hypothetical and probably not a very useful question to be asking if truth be told. What is absolutely certain though is the harder you work and the better you do in unit 4 and on the exam, the better your score will be. Best to focus on smashing those components and not focusing on what's already done.

[Seņor]

Hey so I finished all my unit 3 sacs for EL, i don't have a good ranking in a weak cohort, hence the scaled score is not expected to be too good. However, is it possible that I could increase my GA1 score? Like if I do well in unit 4 sacs can I raise my overall average and hence it will have an affect on my UNIT 3 rank and I will get a higher scaled score? Or can I smash the exam and the GAT and hence my exam scales my GA1

Sorry if I am not clear but essentially is unit 3/4 rankings seperate or is it an overall thing or what?

You get different ranks for unit 3 and 4. My teacher for example, told me that he sent to vcaa as me being rank 2 in unit 3 and rank 1 in unit 4 in history.

[JellyBeanz]

You get different ranks for unit 3 and 4. My teacher for example, told me that he sent to vcaa as me being rank 2 in unit 3 and rank 1 in unit 4 in history.

On this topic, do you not get an overall rank at the end of the year? I think i'm rank 1 in UNIT 3 chem but i might be rank 2 in unit 4 chem at the end of the year, how does this affect me?

[Seņor]

On this topic, do you not get an overall rank at the end of the year? I think i'm rank 1 in UNIT 3 chem but i might be rank 2 in unit 4 chem at the end of the year, how does this affect me?

Your moderation of sac marks i believe. I could be wrong tho

[dmitridr]

Great question.

I had a private student last year who didn't do too well in his unit 3/4 SACs because he didn't work hard enough and honestly art was his passion (which I told him to pursue!!), however, he actually surprised me and did really well in the exam (A+), and ended up getting a 38, so yes the exam can make a massive difference.

I tell all students this, however: DO NOT WORRY ABOUT HOW YOU'RE GOING. Just do, learn and focus on excelling. If you get caught up in what's gone wrong it consumes your thoughts to the point where you actually forget how to excel in the first place. Be an independent thinker and THINK WHY certain linguistic features occur - when I was in year 12, my teacher was very lazy and so I'd go home at night and research myself. I would think and 'ponder' (sorry for the lame word) why certain processes occur in language. So many students get caught up in just memorising what they have to know for a SAC that they forget that to excel in a subject you must have conceptual understanding of it. I was shocked when I asked students, what is the difference between informal and formal language and how would you define it. Most students can't, but I have found this also stems from the teachers not making it that simple for students in their classes.

I hope that helps - it's not a rant, just my viewpoint and how I believe you can succeed in not just E.Lang but any other subject!

Thanks!
Dmitri.