ATAR Notes: Forum
VCE Stuff => VCE Science => VCE Mathematics/Science/Technology => VCE Subjects + Help => VCE Psychology => Topic started by: KyngPynn on August 08, 2011, 02:35:50 pm
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So i got a shit fucking mark for my mid years.
Is a 40 possible for me?
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depends how high your c+ was, what sac grade you get and what unit 4 exam mark you also score.
edit: sorry to be frank but i don't think it is possible to get 40
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I also have to agree, sorry. I got a B on the midyear and a very high A+ on the end of year and got 37. The upside is that 37 isn't that far from 40?
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I also have to agree, sorry. I got a B on the midyear and a very high A+ on the end of year and got 37. The upside is that 37 isn't that far from 40?
apparently psych scales up this year?
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Theres still the possiblity of getting a high score :)
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Don't worry about it too much now. I was gutted with my B+ in Physics last year. Prioritise your top 4 and make strategic changes if necessary.
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so if i get a high A+ what is my score gonna be?
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I would say high 30s.
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i heard it scales up as well...a friend told me by three...i dunno though :/
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ROFL.
Psych up by 3?
Sorry, but that's NEVER going to happen.
If you even get +1 you should be happy!
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lol i was skeptical too but i hope so
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It most likely wont change from the usual. If anything, it may not downscale at all this year.
And even though this exam was harder/more harshly marked, it's impossible to tell until the unit 4 exam.
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Let's hope it stays the same like legal so it gives 40'ers a solid 40 instead of down to 39 :P
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My average grade for Unit 3 SAC marks was an A .. but, on the mid- year exam I completely 'effed up and got a C + .. terrible I know. Is it still possible to achieve a 40 study score if I get an average of A on my SAC marks, and an A for the end of year exam?
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Simply put...no.
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So whats the highest i can possibly get?
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Well if you get 90/90....
just saying, my friend for accounting last year, got A+ on midyear, and D+ on end of year (he went overseas and couldn't be bothered), he got 34, scaled to 35, that said his A+ must have been really high.
What does this mean?
Nothing, just do your very best, I mean why not?
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So whats the highest i can possibly get?
C+ is ALWAYS the state-wide average (median and mode) for any exam, and 30 ALWAYS is the average (again median and mode) study score.
So at the moment, with your C+ midyear, you are about halfway in the total psychology cohort, on track for a score of 30.
The SAC marks are of much less importance in determining your overall study score, but your A is solid so that will definitely help
The distribution of study scores in VCE is such that for a score of 37 (or above) you must be in the top 1/6th of the cohort.
In this Unit 3 exam, 18.5% of people got an A or A+. So at this stage, a low A on the midyear would not even get you to 37, let alone 40. (http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vce/statistics/2011/midyear/vce_psychology_ga1_11.pdf)
So in theory, if you got a C+ on the Unit 4 exam, you would get ~30 study score.
If you did a perfect exam (no marks dropped), you could maybe push yourself up into about the top 20% of the cohort (assuming that everyone else gets the same marks as they did for the midyear). Top 20% would get a score of about 35 or 36
But don't even worry about any of that:
just go into that exam and do your best to absolutely smash it - that's all you can do
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jfc, this sucks a lot....my whole futures gone.
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jfc, this sucks a lot....my whole futures gone.
how is your future gone? atar is just a number man, at the end of the day if it isn't high enough just do tafe to get into uni, its like one extra year of education and on the upside you will have a head start.
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how will i have a head start?
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you still have at least 5 other subjects don't you?
or if you're in year 11..just repeat it if you aren't happy or forget about it and do something else
plenty of other possibilities