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Re: Statement of Marks Arrived (Anyone else wanna share too?)
« Reply #105 on: August 27, 2011, 03:25:56 pm »
i got 54/55 in one sac, but that was rounded up to 20/20
my schools' sacs are ridiculously easy though

you should see my school's sacs, literally for methods theyre a joke, they're like literally easier than exam 1 questions =.="

im sure luffy would agree here? :P (:

Yeah - I do agree. However, after Thushan's comment, I am beginning to wonder whether all schools follow the same pattern. i.e. Easy Methods SAC's.
no schools' SACs are hard enough to challenge the great minds of luffy and thushan
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Re: Statement of Marks Arrived (Anyone else wanna share too?)
« Reply #106 on: August 27, 2011, 06:51:22 pm »
i got 54/55 in one sac, but that was rounded up to 20/20
my schools' sacs are ridiculously easy though

you should see my school's sacs, literally for methods theyre a joke, they're like literally easier than exam 1 questions =.="

im sure luffy would agree here? :P (:

Yeah - I do agree. However, after Thushan's comment, I am beginning to wonder whether all schools follow the same pattern. i.e. Easy Methods SAC's.
no schools' SACs are hard enough to challenge the great minds of luffy and thushan
you must enrol at DHMC immediately

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Re: Statement of Marks Arrived (Anyone else wanna share too?)
« Reply #107 on: August 27, 2011, 07:29:34 pm »
no schools' SACs are hard enough to challenge the great minds of luffy and thushan
you must enrol at DHMC immediately

the thing with methods sacs is that i think schools purposely make them easy otherwise too many people would fail
like we cant deny that there are A LOT of people who are doing methods that really shouldn't be
say if my school gave a sac of the difficulty of say 2010's exam 2, im pretty sure that only about 3-4 people in my class would even be able to get a decent (85%+) mark

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Re: Statement of Marks Arrived (Anyone else wanna share too?)
« Reply #108 on: August 27, 2011, 09:24:22 pm »
I think my SACs are above VCAA standard, but I'd need other opinions to make sure. Our average SAC scores are usually lower than other schools, however we always do well in exams as a cohort (ie. much better than SACs percentage-wise), therefore I'd assume that our SACs are harder than exams.

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Re: Statement of Marks Arrived (Anyone else wanna share too?)
« Reply #109 on: August 27, 2011, 10:46:40 pm »
I think my SACs are above VCAA standard, but I'd need other opinions to make sure. Our average SAC scores are usually lower than other schools, however we always do well in exams as a cohort (ie. much better than SACs percentage-wise), therefore I'd assume that our SACs are harder than exams.

that's better, because i guess with melbourne high, they can afford to make it harder, because what schools want is to end up with sort of a normal dist. of sac scores, it kinda helps everyone, with melbourne high, you probably have a much stronger cohort than other schools, so your mean would be higher, meaning that they have to make sacs harder to counter that, otherwise everyone would get 100% or close to

but with my school, i dont think our cohort is as strong as MHS's, therefore, if our sacs were as hard as yours, we'd probably have a lot of people getting like 50% whatnot, even though we get good separation at the top...that's why they make it easier, so that everyone kinda "does well" which evens everything out a lot more

if you get what i say, it makes sense in my head :P

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Re: Statement of Marks Arrived (Anyone else wanna share too?)
« Reply #110 on: August 28, 2011, 12:26:20 am »
My school's methods and spesh sacs are generally harder than vcaa exams; same goes for chem. Some of my spesh sacs have been really difficult, with no one finishing or getting full marks. For one, the highest mark was 17/20, and this is out of a cohort including ~10 45+ scores in methods last year.
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Re: Statement of Marks Arrived (Anyone else wanna share too?)
« Reply #111 on: August 28, 2011, 07:49:54 am »
our sacs are generally very straightforward, although I would say that they are just above VCAA standard (for both methods and spesh). however, my school has a reputation for setting an impossibly hard sac at the most unexpected moments...my last spesh sac was riduclously hard - whereas all the other ones were quite straightforward
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Re: Statement of Marks Arrived (Anyone else wanna share too?)
« Reply #112 on: August 28, 2011, 11:26:34 am »
mmm i would agree, though i think our sacs are at a good standard.
I mean VCAA moderates them quite highly. my sac score was 93 and it went to 100 last year.

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Re: Statement of Marks Arrived (Anyone else wanna share too?)
« Reply #113 on: August 28, 2011, 09:48:03 pm »
no schools' SACs are hard enough to challenge the great minds of luffy and thushan
you must enrol at DHMC immediately

the thing with methods sacs is that i think schools purposely make them easy otherwise too many people would fail
like we cant deny that there are A LOT of people who are doing methods that really shouldn't be
say if my school gave a sac of the difficulty of say 2010's exam 2, im pretty sure that only about 3-4 people in my class would even be able to get a decent (85%+) mark
our last sac was so easy paul.. maybe its easy for you :P
and yes, thushan should go and own us all at DHMC. If i can some how get 91% on last terms test, Thushan will kill it :P
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Re: Statement of Marks Arrived (Anyone else wanna share too?)
« Reply #114 on: August 28, 2011, 11:50:44 pm »
our last sac was so easy paul.. maybe its easy for you :P
and yes, thushan should go and own us all at DHMC. If i can some how get 91% on last terms test, Thushan will kill it :P

"our last sac was so easy paul...maybe its easy for you" - what are you trying to say? :P LOL! (: i think you missed out a NOT in there! :P

but nah, most of our sacs are pretty textbook stuff, theres nothing that needs "thinking"

like our spesh app task was actually quite decent, quite challenging :)

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« Reply #115 on: August 29, 2011, 11:10:57 pm »
the spech app task was fairly easy.. although im not going to say it was "really" easy just in case i mucked up a few things. :P

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Re: Statement of Marks Arrived (Anyone else wanna share too?)
« Reply #116 on: August 29, 2011, 11:27:31 pm »
To be honest, I'd prefer it if our sacs were much more difficult than they are now. Especially in Chem and Methods.
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Re: Statement of Marks Arrived (Anyone else wanna share too?)
« Reply #117 on: August 29, 2011, 11:41:01 pm »
To be honest, I'd prefer it if our sacs were much more difficult than they are now. Especially in Chem and Methods.

our methods sacs are a joke, our chem ones are kinda dodgy, like they ask weird as questions, i wonder who writes them...........


the spech app task was fairly easy.. although im not going to say it was "really" easy just in case i mucked up a few things. :P

you said the methods app task was easy too, until you found out your mistakes :P

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« Reply #118 on: August 30, 2011, 07:24:00 pm »
it was easy paul.. they took marks off for the slightest errors.. like the last page.. in which I actually went and told the teachers that there was a mistake and get everyone a mark.. only to lose 2 myself..
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Re: Statement of Marks Arrived (Anyone else wanna share too?)
« Reply #119 on: August 31, 2011, 08:18:55 pm »
it was easy paul.. they took marks off for the slightest errors.. like the last page.. in which I actually went and told the teachers that there was a mistake and get everyone a mark.. only to lose 2 myself..

hahah, well that was smart of you wasn't it? ;P
i thought that "down here it's every man for himself" :P YES I KNOW MY QUOTES ;)

but seriously though, they have to be stingy with the marking, cause with a sac that easy, to do in 2hr 40min...they cant have everyone doing well

btw, do you know who else got full marks, apparently 2 people did?