Class of 2011: ATAR and SS Discussion Thread

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English- 33---<31
Aus Hist-39---<38
Psych-36---<34
Revs- 34
Politics- 29--->33
Further- 23---<dunno

ATAR 81.6

SUCK IT 99'ERS

[Daveyy]

LOTE: Swedish =

GA1: B+
GA2: B+
GA3:A+
Study Score: 32.


How does that work?!
I thought it would have been higher.

[Greatness]

LOTE: Swedish =

GA1: B+
GA2: B+
GA3:A+
Study Score: 32.


How does that work?!
I thought it would have been higher.

Lol yeah i got: B+,A,B = 30 for jap

[Greatness]

Ok, i still cant get over my english result.. Pretty devo tbh, i mean i worked my ass off the week before the exam and i thought i did pretty well on the exam. I mean while i was writing my TR i was thinking that it was one of my best pieces, my creative piece related to the prompt and i had a few ppl read it and my teachers and they thought it would do fairly well. I thought that LA would let me down and it may have but it wasnt that bad, like it was decent.
I got A, A+, B+ which got me a 36. I mean 36 is still a great score, but for the amount of effort i put in and how i was feeling after the exam i thought that i was a genuine chance for a 40. Now, i jsut checked the mail and i got a 43 for the written section in the GAT. Ive been told by multiple teachers that the GAT can boost up your exam scores if you do well in it and average on the subject exam and i just cant see what happened... I actually tried in the GAT just in case something like this happened in the english exam. Maybe i just expected too much but yeh im not too happy.

FUCK YOU VCAA.

[Jdog]

Ok, i still cant get over my english result.. Pretty devo tbh, i mean i worked my ass off the week before the exam

Im sorry dude but working your ass for one week doesn't really count for much in english. it is a subject that requires foundations to be set from the middle to start of the year. working ONLY the week before kind of shows you didn't take it seriously, so the result seems justified. However if you are still concerned, then ask for an inspection of script and sit down with your teacher to see where you went wrong. It will allow you to let go of any feelings of being disadvantageed. also im not sure the GAT can be taken seriously.

[Greatness]

Ok, i still cant get over my english result.. Pretty devo tbh, i mean i worked my ass off the week before the exam

Im sorry dude but working your ass for one week doesn't really count for much in english. it is a subject that requires foundations to be set from the middle to start of the year. working ONLY the week before kind of shows you didn't take it seriously, so the result seems justified. However if you are still concerned, then ask for an inspection of script and sit down with your teacher to see where you went wrong. It will allow you to let go of any feelings of being disadvantageed. also im not sure the GAT can be taken seriously.

Well i worked hard throughout the year for sure, it wasnt like i bludged scas then decided to get serious for exams. I just stepped it up a level for the exam, i was probably doing english non stop throughout that week, so much so that i neglected all my other subjects. As a result, at the end of the exam period i felt as though english was giong to be my best subject... I felt as though perhaps i shouldnt have put in as much effort for english as i couldve maybe done a bit better in my other subjects.
Maybe what i wrote was just pure bs taht the examiners hated, yeh maybe that was it...
Also with the whole GAT thing i feel kind of mislead by the entire thing because many of my teachers and even some examiners at lectures said that it 'can' influence your final exam score but only in a positive way.
/End rant.
I suppose i just fail at english.

[werdna]

Yes, the GAT can only work in your favour not to your detriment (when there is a big discrepancy between SACs and exam performance). But considering you got a B+ on the exam and a moderated A and A+ overall for SACs, the GAT would've made little to no difference anyway.

Also, the exam score is NOT moderated - whatever you get on the exam is yours. You got a B+ on the exam, so I hate to say it, but you probably underperformed in the exam and this is largely due to the fact that it's so hard to gauge how well you go in an English exam. And like Jdog said, no matter how much cramming you do for this subject in the lead-up to the exam, the foundations have to be there... Nevertheless, you should be happy with your overall scores!

[Jdog]

LOL and i just opened my gat, i got <20 for english, ( I didn't try, but still haha)

and i did quite well in actual english haha.

[Greatness]

I guess i just underperformed in the exam and the risk i decided to take didnt pay off... But yeh it's hard to take it when you worked fairly hard for something then you dont get what you want. Oh well at least the atar makes up for the english score lol
I will forever hate vce english - with a passion.

[Kingofrok33]

I have a dilemma with Chemistry, on whether or not I should contend my score of 36. In a fairly weak cohort our teacher gave us very easy SAC's, and the average scores were 80%+ for pretty much everyone. The problem for me here was that it screwed up the rankings in the SAC's, as I was about 5th or 6th with a 90+ SAC average, even when my exam scores were equal best in the class (A+, A). The other person on those exam scores had a more fortunate SAC ranking, and managed a 40 raw.

3 kids in the top 5 had little knowledge of chemistry at all, and could only manage C+ exam scores at best. The SAC ranking was unfairly good for them, due to the teacher's lenience in SAC marking and constant aiding of students during SAC's.

Would there be any chance of contending my mark to VCAA for the SAC's? As it doesn't make sense for a student ranked 2nd or 3rd to get an A-A+ mark, without even scoring higher than a C+ in either exam.

[taiga]

The fact that you're asking us that question makes me say yes, go contend it. Do not let it stick in the back of your head.

[chelseaFC]

What was the highest atar score for a VN user who didnt do Spesh? Out of curiosity..

[Tashi]

What was the highest atar score for a VN user who didnt do Spesh? Out of curiosity..

99.95, its possible if you do latin or something.

[b^3]

What was the highest atar score for a VN user who didnt do Spesh? Out of curiosity..

99.95 if you look at the AN 2011 list acheived by Greggaz

[paulsterio]

What was the highest atar score for a VN user who didnt do Spesh? Out of curiosity..

You can get a 99.95 by doing languages, which scale up more than spesh does anyway, the benefits of doing spesh are decreasing every day, plus so many people do it that fluctuations/increases in its scaling affect the aggregate->atar so much