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VCE Stuff => VCE Technology => VCE Mathematics/Science/Technology => VCE Subjects + Help => VCE Computing: Data Analytics => Topic started by: ben92 on September 02, 2010, 07:43:31 pm
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Roughly what percentage on the exam do I need to get 48+? The grading report isn't being helpful.
Have yet to drop a mark on SACs if that's relevant.
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ITA is not competitive at all. You can get around 85% on the exam and still get 48+. Also, hardly anyone gets a perfect score on an IT exam.
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That's a lot easier than I would have thought - how do you know this? Did you get a SoM?
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Yes. I can't find my SoM at the moment, but I remember losing about 12 marks on the 2008 ITA exam. I got a study score of 49.
Some of the marks I lost were stupid mistakes, but they were mainly lost on ambiguous questions which hardly anyone got right.
Also, re: SACs - you probably need to be top of the class as well (which I'm assuming you are if you haven't dropped a mark). My SACs were mostly in the 95-100% range, and they all got moderated to 100%.
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I haven't dropped a mark yet but neither has one other person in the class. So I'm 'sharing' 1st place for Unit 3 and I'm probably going to lose it for Unit 4 because the second SAC is a theory one, which he has an edge on me in.
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You should still be okay. As long as the two of you perform well on the exam, it won't make a huge difference whether you are first or second.
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hey ell, can i ask whether i can still get a 45+ for IT apps, i'm sitting on a Low B+ average when you average out all my SAC scores, giving me a rank of 3 out of 10'ish people (difference of less than 10% between me and first). However, i honestly think the teacher the teacher marks us REALLY harshly or maybe he's lazy. I'm confident for the exam, however, what could a 95% + on the exam get me?
thanks.
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guys last year i dropped a few in the exam and i was ranked first at 93% and i got a study score of 46. loosing a couple of marks can drop your score a lot.
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guys last year i dropped a few in the exam and i was ranked first at 93% and i got a study score of 46. loosing a couple of marks can drop your score a lot.
How sure are you that it was only a few? Did you get a SoM?
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hey guys out of a class of 8 im like ranked 6th or 7th.....because the teacher hates me.
Our small cohort is pretty strong though. Lets say i only drop a 2-4 marks on the exam, and get the
highest mark on the exam out of my cohort..
what would i be looking to get around for study score?
my SAC grades are low B.
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Yes. I can't find my SoM at the moment, but I remember losing about 12 marks on the 2008 ITA exam. I got a study score of 49.
Hey ell, when you say you lost 12 marks, is that 12/90 or 12/180? I'm assuming its 12/180?
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Hey ell, when you say you lost 12 marks, is that 12/90 or 12/180? I'm assuming its 12/180?
No, I mean 12/90, or 24/180. I found my SoM, so I can show you now:
Multiple choice
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/57727/ita-mc.jpg)
Short answer and total score
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/57727/ita-sat.jpg)
And for good measure, proof of my 49
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/57727/ita-ss.jpg)
It does change from year to year, but not drastically.
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Wow, incredible!
Do the VCAA mark ITA leniently? Did you surprise yourself with your raw score? I've heard the assessors report is a lot more stricter than how they actually mark the papers.
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Wow, incredible!
Do the VCAA mark ITA leniently? Did you surprise yourself with your raw score? I've heard the assessors report is a lot more stricter than how they actually mark the papers.
I came out of the exam quietly confident of a 48+ score, so (not meaning to sound arrogant or anything) I wasn't totally surprised when I got my 49. What did shock me, though, was the fact that I lost 12 marks.
As for the marking... it depends. For a 2 mark question after doubling (i.e. 1 mark on the exam paper) I got 1 out of 2, which meant that one of my markers gave me the mark while the other didn't.
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Wow, thats just awesome.
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Wow, incredible!
Do the VCAA mark ITA leniently? Did you surprise yourself with your raw score? I've heard the assessors report is a lot more stricter than how they actually mark the papers.
I came out of the exam quietly confident of a 48+ score, so (not meaning to sound arrogant or anything) I wasn't totally surprised when I got my 49. What did shock me, though, was the fact that I lost 12 marks.
As for the marking... it depends. For a 2 mark question after doubling (i.e. 1 mark on the exam paper) I got 1 out of 2, which meant that one of my markers gave me the mark while the other didn't.
Shocked that you had lost 12, or 'only' lost 12?
A friend of mine said she was getting 70% on her trial exams but got a 45 for the subject. That's why I thought the marking must be much more lenient. Were you getting 86% on your trial exams?
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Shocked that you had lost 12, or 'only' lost 12?
A friend of mine said she was getting 70% on her trial exams but got a 45 for the subject. That's why I thought the marking must be much more lenient. Were you getting 86% on your trial exams?
I read my study score before my statement of marks, so I was shocked because I didn't think you could get a 49 from losing 12 marks.
As for trials, I think I was getting higher than 85-86%. I can't remember exactly, I didn't do many.
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Out of the 4 sacs my scores in order were 93%,90%,89%,91%.
What would i have to get on the exam to get a 40?
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It's your rank in the cohort rather than your raw scores which count - how are you rank-wise?
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I'd say about 3rd overall
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That sounds fine - about 75% on the exam should net a 40 according to the grading report.
(page 3 http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vcaa/vce/statistics/2009/section3/vce_it_applications_ga09.pdf)
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is that raw or after scaling?
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Raw I meant. This is an estimate by the way - find someone who got 40 and ask them roughly what they got on SACs/the exam.
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hmmm,, im ranked 2nd and over all ive got 41.25/50 from my sacs, and the guy whos first has got 42/50 ,, if i tell my teacher to lift up our sac marks, does that help me in the exam?? i mean the final score will that get lifted?
say i get like 85 in the ita exam, idk how it works, but is it better that i have higher sac marks, or then will vcaa compare my sac marks (higher) than my exam, and drop me.. ?
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Okay, my average was about 70 - 80% on the SACS. top of the cohort.
On the exam I knew I lost a lot of marks, so I was extremely surprised when I got my score (47)
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WOW really? How many marks did it say you lost on your Statement of Marks?
I've averaging what you averaged for your SAC, but ranked 3rd out of a class of 10ish. My practice exam results fluctuate between 78-85%
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i didn't get my statement of marks, but i know i lost a lot.
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Considering ~85% got nell 49, he [Linkage] could have still lost a fair bit...
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Well I completely didn't answer one 3 mark question (one of the easiest on the paper- had a mind blank) and another worth a lot of marks I wasn't sure and just wrote a random answer. Who knows? Maybe it could have been the right one but my SAC scores brought my final score down.
but the point is, you can ace this subject, no matter your SAC scores, so go for it!
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I got kinda angry, I lost 16 marks on the 2007 AND the exact same for 2008. D:
I never really go to check my work again though, even though i finish 40+ mins early for each exam, maybe in the real exam i will pick up on silly mistakes i made?
Your story has given me confidence though, i can only imagine the people who do ITA bludge it and would not even study for it.
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I got kinda angry, I lost 16 marks on the 2007 AND the exact same for 2008. D:
I never really go to check my work again though, even though i finish 40+ mins early for each exam, maybe in the real exam i will pick up on silly mistakes i made?
Your story has given me confidence though, i can only imagine the people who do ITA bludge it and would not even study for it.
Yeah, I finish with about 40 mins to spare too. But for me, I found that when I slowed down my writing speed, gave additonal time to reading the question again and planning my answers, I was able to provide far better responses and managed to reduce a number of lost marks. Then with about 20 minutes to spare, use that to check over the exam.
As my teacher said to me, don't boil over how much marks you can lose for certain scores. The time spent calculating can be used to revising for exams :D
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Wow it takes you guys that long? I usually finish in 50 mins and without using reading time, I just dive straight into it. Finding it hard to treat it like a real exam though, as in stuff like rechecking answers after finishing, results aren't that great lol. Averaging 70/90 now. Lose such stupid marks...
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I'm with tonez, usually within 50 mins, but i use reading time. I can't believe there's soo much time left..
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I'm with tonez, usually within 50 mins, but i use reading time. I can't believe there's soo much time left..
i wish that time could be given on to other exams =P
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ITA is not competitive at all. You can get around 85% on the exam and still get 48+. Also, hardly anyone gets a perfect score on an IT exam.
My friend last year got 50. He spent all of his revision break on his iPhone playing papertoss :o Legend!