SS 40+ in Economics

[oj101]

Hi everyone

I think I might have tanked my first two SACs for GA1 - I had a bad day on the first and made silly mistakes in the second (71% and 51%). My aim is still to get a 40/41 SS.

I rank around just above middle in my class - 6th/7th. I was told not to worry by my Economics teacher seeing as he marked hard (my school is towards the top in VCE rankings, they mark hard, the cohort is strong, plus doing well in the exam will pull my score up). However, according to the VCAA website, you need 90% for an A+ in GA1. (last year I excelled Economics, around 90 to 95% average)

What are my chances of getting a SS of 40+? What would I need to get a 40+ given my circumstances?

[chasej]

AOS1 is worth 12.5% of the final mark so it is possible to do well if you excel in all of your other SACs and especially the exam (>90%) I would say it is possible to still get a 40-41. Though you pretty much tanked the SACS considering you got 51% on one, 51% is well below what would be considered average for economics, defenietly still possible to get a good SS though. Just make sure to change whatever you did wrong in the first SAC (bad studying habit, not getting enough sleep the night before or whatever else it might be).

[abcdqdxD]

raw sac marks is irrelevant - only your rankings matters

if you are ranked well then you will get your 40

[spectroscopy]

all that matters is ranking, anecdotal proof you say? at my previous school my homegroup teacher was a vce economics/bm/accounting teacher and he would always tell us about how his year 11 3/4 eco class was going because we would usually have him after he taught them,the first sac of the year was really easy and "everybody apart from 2 or 3 students" 90%+'d it and this one student got a low 5/8 (idk what that is in percentages, he converted it to IB grades for us because we were in middle school) and the sac counted for quote: "half of this semesters marks" but then the rest of the sacs were really difficult with averages around 50-60 %, and the one student who had done terribly on the first sac got more motivated to do really well and started 100%ing things, i dont know what rank he ended up at, but the school wasnt THAT good of a school (ranked like 150-220) and this student pulled a 44 somehow

tl;dr: ranking is what's important, try your hardest to get as close to full marks as possible and do practice sacs/checkpoints/everything consistently and you should be okay

[siddhartharora]

Don't stress too much. I've come to realise that without doubt rankings are more important.

In our class this year, first Economics SAC, worst results out. Highest mark was 28/40, I pulled off a 23/40. Our class is all boys too, and we studied quite hard, making summary notes and doing practice questions. Although our teacher is a first year graduate from Vic Uni who has done an Accounting Degree and a Masters in teaching - what the heck right? He also tended to mark our SAC's extremely hard, so if we all end up doing well in the exam, then I guess VCAA will look at the first SAC mark and say 'Hmm, marked too hard, lets bring it up'. Last year, our class averaged 80%+ with 2-3 students going 95%+, but the first SAC this year, those 2-3 students only pulled off a passing score, 20/40, and I was surprised to have beat them as I was a 85% student last year.

Anyhow, the thing with VCE is you've got so many chances until the exam comes. You could do bad and pass the first SAC, but go heaps well by studying harder and PRACTICING in SAC's and get a 90% + mark in the exam, and watch the study score be positive