Exam and SS

[Ram007]

I'm in a class of Accounting. There are only 7 students and all did the exams. If I was averaging a C+ but the other 6 students where averaging B+, does that mean the SAc's will get scaled up for that class , considering they all found the exam good and performed pretty good.

[thepikanation]

I'm in a class of Accounting. There are only 7 students and all did the exams. If I was averaging a C+ but the other 6 students where averaging B+, does that mean the SAc's will get scaled up for that class , considering they all found the exam good and performed pretty good.

Under the assumption that when they say they found the exam good that means they performed better than the B+ they were averaging, say at what VCAA deems as A standard for the exam, it is most likely that your cohort on average will scale up one grade, as a rough estimate.

You could benefit from this too, say turning your C+ into a B. Depends on how you all performed though, since you're the bottom SAC rank for the Unit 3 as well as 4 you're kind of at the mercy of everyone else above you, and you'd best hope they all did well or it may be bad luck for you

But from what you're saying it seems much more likely you'll be going up rather than down haha

[Ram007]

Well currently I am ranked 7th out of 7 students )50% average C-C+. The 6th student is performing a little much better than me( 58% average) C+ but the other 5 students are pretty close to high 80s B+. They said the exam was good and that they did well. So if the 5/7 students perform pretty good,is there a  good chance I wıll get my sac scores scaled to a C+ or even a B. Im expecting a SS of around 28 with 50% average across all 3 GAs

[mad_maxine]

Just out of interest, what if you and another person have the same sac scores? Obviously you can't have the same rank (as I've heard from vcaa), so what would happen then? Particularly a problem for rank 1.

[thepikanation]

So if the 5/7 students perform pretty good,is there a  good chance I wıll get my sac scores scaled to a C+ or even a B. Im expecting a SS of around 28 with 50% average across all 3 GAs

I'd say it's more than likely under those circumstances that you could get anywhere from 28-30 as a study score I guess you'll find out 5 days whether my prediction is right haha, I hope you get on the higher end of that range

Just out of interest, what if you and another person have the same sac scores? Obviously you can't have the same rank (as I've heard from vcaa), so what would happen then? Particularly a problem for rank 1.

Whilst I have heard that it can be problematic to group students together at the top with the same SAC score, there is no actual rule against it. The students with the same SAC rank tend to receive an approximate average of the scores that make the top. Say for example both of the top two students in a class got 95/100 for their SACs. On the exam however, student 1 receives a 90% and Student 2 receives an 85%. What VTAC does in this instance is calculate an average of the two scores, giving an effective 87.5% for their exam contribution to their SACs.

Normally I'm sure this kind of instance is where they would likely call upon things such as the GAT, Indicative Grades and seeing if these students can be classed as outliers. But I believe in the case where these on't separate the student, I believe VCAA averages the top scores, disadvantaging one student slightly over another.