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Tick505

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How does the exams affect SACs??
« on: December 14, 2011, 12:32:28 pm »
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Im not sure where to post this, but I have a friend who has done really poorly in his SACs, below the cohort average for most of them. He's part of a strong cohort though. In the exam he got A+ and beat more than 2/3 of the cohort which had an exam average of a high A How does the sac scaling work for him??
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Re: How does the exams affect SACs??
« Reply #1 on: December 14, 2011, 04:06:08 pm »
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The exam matters a lot more than SACS, and if you perform well on the exam (e.g A+) and had poor SAC marks  in comparison(e.g B), the SAC marks would be raised.

I've also been told that Rank 1 on exams gets the SAC marks of the rank 1 student on SACS etc. Don't know myself, but that's what I've been led to believe.

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Re: How does the exams affect SACs??
« Reply #2 on: December 14, 2011, 04:14:53 pm »
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Tragesty, I'm not 100% certain but I'm fairly sure it's the other way around, i.e. Rank 1 on the SACS gets the top exam mark as well as their own, at least that's how I understand it, I could be wrong.
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Re: How does the exams affect SACs??
« Reply #3 on: December 14, 2011, 05:00:55 pm »
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Rank 1 on SACs get top exam mark for their SAC mark. They keep their exam mark as their exam mark. THis is VCAA's explanation anyway
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Re: How does the exams affect SACs??
« Reply #4 on: December 14, 2011, 05:03:04 pm »
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So rank 5 in SACs will get the fifth best exam mark for SAC mark?
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Re: How does the exams affect SACs??
« Reply #5 on: December 14, 2011, 05:04:30 pm »
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yeah. that's the general gist but i'm not 100 % sure on specifics as people can get 200/200 SACs for e.g. Bio but no one averages 75/75 per exam
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Re: How does the exams affect SACs??
« Reply #6 on: December 14, 2011, 05:22:52 pm »
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so with my friend's situation, would his SACs be able to scale to a low A+?
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Re: How does the exams affect SACs??
« Reply #7 on: December 14, 2011, 05:26:08 pm »
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probably not, given average is ~A and his SACs are below average
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Re: How does the exams affect SACs??
« Reply #8 on: December 14, 2011, 05:33:39 pm »
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but if he beat most people in the exam, does that make a difference?
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Re: How does the exams affect SACs??
« Reply #9 on: December 14, 2011, 05:36:08 pm »
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as far as i know, your friends ranking for the exam won't affect his moderated sac score.. only his ranking for the sacs and the schools overall ranking compared to the rest of the state, but i could be wrong!
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Re: How does the exams affect SACs??
« Reply #10 on: December 14, 2011, 05:40:57 pm »
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that would be a shame. oh well!
thanks everyone for answering my question :)
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Re: How does the exams affect SACs??
« Reply #11 on: December 14, 2011, 05:41:21 pm »
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Quote from: Tick505 on December 14, 2011, 05:33:39 pm
but if he beat most people in the exam, does that make a difference?
no. i think it only makes a difference if there is a HUGE discrepency between grades in exam / sacs

(e.g. A+ / C etc.)
at this stage VCAA may have a look and see any reasons for the discrepancy
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Re: How does the exams affect SACs??
« Reply #12 on: December 14, 2011, 05:49:36 pm »
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is that a C SACs unscaled or C after scaling?
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Re: How does the exams affect SACs??
« Reply #13 on: December 14, 2011, 05:58:47 pm »
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it's just a random example, i'm no where near sure that VCAA looks at all A+ / C anyway...
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Re: How does the exams affect SACs??
« Reply #14 on: December 15, 2011, 04:18:08 pm »
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ah, thanks for the correction.
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