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VCE Stuff => Victorian Technical Score Discussion => Topic started by: Aye Bay Bay on June 08, 2008, 10:38:08 am

Title: Help me predict SS
Post by: Aye Bay Bay on June 08, 2008, 10:38:08 am: Hey guys I got 92/100 for my Unit 3 SACS in Bio with the number 1 rank.
What SS would I get if I got a B, B+ and an A on the exam assuming that I kept this up for the entire year. And howmany marks can I afford to lose to get a B, B+ and an A on an exam?
Title: Re: Help me predict SS
Post by: moshi on June 08, 2008, 10:57:32 am: have a look at the grade distributions from 2006-7
Title: Re: Help me predict SS
Post by: Aye Bay Bay on June 08, 2008, 11:11:17 am: How come the scores are out of 150? I thought there were only 75 marks in the exam.
Title: Re: Help me predict SS
Post by: moshi on June 08, 2008, 11:13:10 am: your exam score gets doubled
Title: Re: Help me predict SS
Post by: Aye Bay Bay on June 08, 2008, 11:18:49 am: Ohh okay
Title: Re: Help me predict SS
Post by: moshi on June 08, 2008, 11:20:38 am: i'm not sure, but it's probably because 150 is 33% of the total required to calculate your study score
Title: Re: Help me predict SS
Post by: Aye Bay Bay on June 08, 2008, 11:21:21 am: Whoa, so if I got 42.5/75 on exam 1 I get a B+?
Title: Re: Help me predict SS
Post by: moshi on June 08, 2008, 11:32:48 am: lol the grades generally change just slightly every year, but i guess if you scored around there then yes!
what's your aim?
Title: Re: Help me predict SS
Post by: Aye Bay Bay on June 08, 2008, 11:35:03 am: I'm aiming for a B+ to an A. My original SAC average was 96% but the teacher moderated everyones SAC's scores.
Title: Re: Help me predict SS
Post by: cara.mel on June 08, 2008, 11:42:33 am: Quote from: Aye Bay Bay on June 08, 2008, 11:11:17 am
How come the scores are out of 150? I thought there were only 75 marks in the exam.

In most subjects the exams are marked twice, so the score is doubled because it's just adding two people's marks together
But as the maths/science subjects are not as subjective (you're either right or wrong), they are usually marked by just one person and then doubled. =]

Also you have to keep in mind the quality of the exam when looking at those. Whenever the first year of the new biol study design was (2006 I think, I don't care I didn't do biol :P), everyone did terrible in the exam
Title: Re: Help me predict SS
Post by: Aye Bay Bay on June 11, 2008, 03:16:15 pm: Exam marks can't change SAC ranking right? So what if you were top of the class in SACS but you got a lower than one of your cohorts? What would happen?
Title: Re: Help me predict SS
Post by: ed_saifa on June 11, 2008, 03:18:01 pm: Quote from: Aye Bay Bay on June 11, 2008, 03:16:15 pm
Exam marks can't change SAC ranking right? So what if you were top of the class in SACS but you got a lower than one of your cohorts? What would happen?
You sac mark would be moderated to get the top exam mark.
But the result you get on the exam you will keep regardless how bad it is.
Title: Re: Help me predict SS
Post by: JL_91 on June 11, 2008, 08:15:15 pm: Quote from: caramel on June 08, 2008, 11:42:33 am
Also you have to keep in mind the quality of the exam when looking at those. Whenever the first year of the new biol study design was (2006 I think, I don't care I didn't do biol :P), everyone did terrible in the exam

Yes, it was 2006 :)

...In Bio I got 95/100 for Unit 3 SACs and the #1 ranking...could I get away with a mid 40s SS with a low-range A+ on either exam? Or would it have to be super high A+s on both?
Title: Re: Help me predict SS
Post by: collins.kate on June 21, 2008, 09:15:41 pm: For bio in 2007 at least two A+'s and an A (one of the A+'s on the first exam, not so sure about the other two) end me up with a 40. While I do know someone who got three A+'s and a 39. Basically i think three A+'s (over 80 on both exams and reasonably sacs) should get you a 40
hope that helps