SAC ranking during remote learning?

[bamboozled]

My school has told us that if high ranking students drop in ranking during remote learning, VCAA assumes it is a result of the remote learning environment and adjusts the ranking accordingly. Therefore, a students ranking prior to online learning (unit 3) is their static rank for the rest of the year. Is this true?

I recently bombed an online SAC in English (being fairly high ranked), and my teacher told me that my ranking will likely not change because marks will be heavily moderated. If this is true, how will VCAA fairly approach this system? Or has my school made this up?

[Coolgalbornin03Lo]

My school has told us that if high ranking students drop in ranking during remote learning, VCAA assumes it is a result of the remote learning environment and adjusts the ranking accordingly. Therefore, a students ranking prior to online learning (unit 3) is their static rank for the rest of the year. Is this true?

I recently bombed an online SAC in English (being fairly high ranked), and my teacher told me that my ranking will likely not change because marks will be heavily moderated. If this is true, how will VCAA fairly approach this system? Or has my school made this up?

I can’t answer this question but half of the unit 3 SACs were online for many schools so does this mean VCAA would look at SACs taken before March and after June (when we returned to school)?

Or does that mean your school has only begun doing unit 4 SACs online? Anyway I’m not sure anyone even VCAA can answer this question the whole moderation thing is surrounded with secrecy (apart from the rank x in SACs gets rank x exam score as their sac score but even that is *apparently* a gross oversimplification.

Anyway the SAC is gone so all you can do is now smash this exam!!!! It was one sac and by the sounds of it you did amazing in unit 3 GOOD LUCK 😊😊

[S_R_K]

VCAA has not provided information about how SACs will be standardised - in addition to their normal processes - due to remote learning. (I think that's because this was a thought bubble from the education department to give the impression that they were looking out for students, but they hadn't really worked out the details.)

You should not assume that just because you did well in an on-site SAC but poorly in a remote SAC, that your ranking will only reflect your score from the on-site SAC. You will need to demonstrate that you were unfairly disadvantaged by remote learning; I suspect that performing poorly on a SAC is not sufficient evidence.

As to what your school has said, this can be a self-fulfilling prophecy, because your school could simply adjust their ranking to reflect the scores from on-site SACs. While this could be rationalised as compensating for any disadvantage caused by remote learning, it also penalises students who performed poorly on the on-site SAC and worked hard to perform better on the remote SAC.

[tiredandstressed]

All we know confidently is the exam will remain to act as a universal indicator, if you score highly on the exam this will likely boost your marks. In the same vein, scoring poorly in the exam may indeed scale your SAC marks down.
Don't be too focused on the process or ranking, all you know is that you are in control in how well you do in the exams, prioritise studying for the final exams and I'm sure it will all work out