What happens to other people if I do terribly on the exam?

[livva]

Okay, so I have a subject I've given up on. I've hated it for the entire year, only passing the SACs because we were allowed to have notes... I haven't actually learned anything. And I still haven't started my revision for the exam yet... the exam's tomorrow.

So, obviously, I'm going to go badly in the exam. Which I don't care about, it can be my sixth subject. But I'm just wondering if me doing this might mess up anybody else's score? I don't know how the study scores work, but I'm worried if I'm ranked higher than some other people, might me doing badly in the exam drag them down?

[Mr Keshy]

This is quoted from Carrot Top

What he's saying is that; as Paul is ranked third he will get the 3rd highest exam score as his scaled SAC score, which happened to be the 20 scored by Dan.

Thushan was ranked first so he will get the top exam mark as his SAC score which was 100 (scored by himself).

Finally, Dan will get the second highest exam mark as his scaled SAC score, which was 70 (scored by Paul).

So you end up with

Student     Exam    SAC (scaled)
Thushan     100          100
Paul            70             20
Dan             20             70

Assuming it was just two equally weighted GA's Paul and Dan would end up with the same study score, quite a low one at that due to Dan's poor exam performance not only impacting himself, but Paul as well due to SAC ranking and consequent scaling.

You can the general idea from this I guess. If you're bottom rank, then I guess there isn't much to worry about in terms of affecting someone elses score.