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Faith-PoweR:
I'm just wondering that which one of these is better to get good marks and high ATAR?
a) ranked the top among weak cohort (low performance school)
b) ranked medium among strong cohort (high performance school)

Can someone tell me how will the final score be affected by your ranking in school?
I know there's many posts discuss about this, but can anyone tell me in a easier way for me to understand please?

pi:
You can get 99.95 from both.

Eddiee:
If you're ranked 1 in a weak cohort you have nothing to worry about but your own exam performance, arguably it's even better than scenario b depending on what school we're talking about :)

Faith-PoweR:

--- Quote from: AsianFive on August 26, 2012, 10:58:14 pm ---If you're ranked 1 in a weak cohort you have nothing to worry about but your own exam performance, arguably it's even better than scenario b depending on what school we're talking about :)

--- End quote ---

But I heard that your SAC marks will be pulled down if your cohort is weak.
For example, if you got A+ for your SAC, then probably you will get a low A+ in the final calculation of marks.
Is that true?

Special At Specialist:
If you're rank 1 in your cohort, then you will receive the best exam mark as your SAC mark. Usually, this means you score your own exam mark, since you would usually have to be the best to score rank 1 SAC's. If that is the case (which it usually is), then nothing that anyone else in your cohort scores will affect you. If not, then you'd better hope that the next best person in your class does well on the exam.

As for being medium ranked in a strong cohort, this is probably safer (because you have something to fall back on if you bomb out on the exam), but at the same time, it's much harder to get a 50. If you want to be a really top scorer, you need to aim for rank 1 in SAC's, regardless of the strength of your cohort.

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