GAT Results as grounds for appeal

[MathMethdz99-R]

Hello there, I just completed Literature 3/4 this year and my study score was a fair bit lower than I had expected. My SAC marks have been ranging from 80-100% but I think the exam mark (B+) may have lowered it a bit. I got 34 but my teacher believed I would get 40. I just checked my GAT results and I got 34/40 for written communication which is 46 standardised score and was wondering if this big discrepancy between my written communication score and my results in Literature could be a reason for appeal? And if so, how would I go about it? Thanks

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[HopefulLawStudent]

Hello there, I just completed Literature 3/4 this year and my study score was a fair bit lower than I had expected. My SAC marks have been ranging from 80-100% but I think the exam mark (B+) may have lowered it a bit. I got 34 but my teacher believed I would get 40. I just checked my GAT results and I got 34/40 for written communication which is 46 standardised score and was wondering if this big discrepancy between my written communication score and my results in Literature could be a reason for appeal? And if so, how would I go about it? Thanks

To be honest I don't think GAT Results can form grounds for appeal. I think it's only put to use if a student misses their exam or someth due to extenuating circumstances, beyond that the GAT is fairly useless (someone correct me if I'm wrong). I'm so sorry to be the bearer of bad news in this instance.

[MathMethdz99-R]

Ah, thank you for that.. it's not a big deal anyways I still have next year but I was just hoping they could take those scores into account .. guess not tho

[HopefulLawStudent]

Ah, thank you for that.. it's not a big deal anyways I still have next year but I was just hoping they could take those scores into account .. guess not tho

Good luck for next year! Legit, smash your other classes and this lower than expected Literature result will just be a minor stumble you'll barely remember this time next year. 

[shlblk]

Hello there, I just completed Literature 3/4 this year and my study score was a fair bit lower than I had expected. My SAC marks have been ranging from 80-100% but I think the exam mark (B+) may have lowered it a bit. I got 34 but my teacher believed I would get 40. I just checked my GAT results and I got 34/40 for written communication which is 46 standardised score and was wondering if this big discrepancy between my written communication score and my results in Literature could be a reason for appeal? And if so, how would I go about it? Thanks

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GAT results aren't always representative of the results you'll get.
I had a 37 in written communication, 39 in maths/science/tech and 32 in humanities and got the scores in my sig.
One of my friends had 45 in maths and got a 24 in spesh and 30 in methods. Another had 49 in maths and got a 33 in spesh and 36 in methods.

GAT results are pretty useless imho, hard work is what matters.

[Aaron]

Take a look at this page to see what the GAT is actually used for: http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Pages/vce/exams/gat/relates.aspx

I personally don't think you should use the GAT results as any sort of indicator - unless you received a derived score, which you didn't. It would have to be an extremely rare case to get an incorrect study score, given that exams (in particular) are marked by at least two different assessors - where it gets marked a third time if there is a significant discrepancy between the two assessors overall marks for your paper.

You can always ask to inspect your exam if you're that concerned. Could have been other things that contributed to that 'lower' score, such as cohort strength and your ranking.

[cathiwalker]

My understanding (which may be incorrect), is that school scaling can pull your marks down noticeably.  So if a teacher marks easier than other schools and all of the students get As during the year, but then the students get Bs in the exam, VCAA thinks "hey, the school was marking easy!" and scales down the SAC results using the exam results (everyone got the same exam and same marking regime; SACs and their marking vary wildly, so exam performance trumps SAC performance).  This is what often leads students who felt that they were going well during the year to get a worse end of year result (note that if you personally were doing great, but your classmates weren't, you'll get scaled down with the rest of them).  The technical report on school scaling is pretty hard to grasp (and I have a degree in stats.).

And no I don't think that you could use the GAT, it more exists as a fallback in case you missed the exam or something.