Cohort

[smithy16]

Can someone explain to me how much the strength of your cohort affects your study score. Especially if the cohort was weak.

[Natters]

basically, your sacs rank you against people in your cohort
so, say your ranked 5th/20 in a school of high achievers who all aim for 35+ (strong cohort)
that is better than being ranked second in a cohort of people who dont care about the subject as long as they pass(weak cohort)

vcaa will recognise that getting a higher rank amongst smarter students is more difficult, and will scale the results accordingly

[smithy16]

But if you get a high rank (top 3 in the cohort for example) in a weak cohort, it won't matter?

[Natters]

if you get number 1 it doesnt matter
if you get anything other than that it does

[Tomanomanous]

if you get number 1 it doesnt matter
if you get anything other than that it does

So my results are probably going to be affected because a lot of other people in my class hardly tried in the subject?

Oh marmalade

[Natters]

yup, unluck

[smithy16]

Not even second highest?

[Natters]

theyre not like "oh you got second highest, close enough, we'll count that as highest" it's second, it says your not as good as the guys whos first :\

[iloveschool]

just confirming, if im rank 1st in a really weak cohert and i average 92% on sacs, 36/40 exam 1 and 57/60 exam 2 what would i be looking at? thanks

[Natters]

44
ranked first in a weak is the same as ranked first in a strong btw

[Deank]

So being ranked 2nd or 3rd instead of 1st, how much does that really affect your score?

[Natters]

a fair bit
im ranked ~6th with 96/100 for the year and it will probs fuck me over tbh

[iloveschool]

thanks natters just hoping that my estimates are correct haha. that would be unscaled too yea?

[Natters]

yeah it would go down to a 43

[iloveschool]

ahh okay thanks