Two Questions and a Physics Prediction

[daniel034]

Good Day

1) For subjects with a low number of enrollments such as Latin.. for example, does the top scorer in the subject always get a 50 or is it based on how well this cohort did relative to the last or even a VCAA difficulty assumption of the exam? If you look at the High Achievers (http://www.theage.com.au/national/tertiary-high-achievers) the highest scorer received 49 - does this mean someone got 50 who didn't allow publishing of their name or the highest was 49?

2) As we are all "weighting" for our results,

Spoiler

see what I did there, it can't be unseen

the methods exam 1 is worth 22% and the second 44%. Does this mean that losing 4 marks in exam 1 is equivalent to losing 4 in exam 2 or are the weighted according to their relative difficulty based on A+ cutoffs and whatnot?

Prediction: 85.5/90 exam 1 (SOM) and 89/90 exam 2, ranked probably top 5 in a weak cohort which had 4-6 A+s in the mid year

Thank you for your time good forum folk and may you achieve what ever it is you want, I believe in you.

[Phy124]

Good Day

1) For subjects with a low number of enrollments such as Latin.. for example, does the top scorer in the subject always get a 50 or is it based on how well this cohort did relative to the last or even a VCAA difficulty assumption of the exam? If you look at the High Achievers (http://www.theage.com.au/national/tertiary-high-achievers) the highest scorer received 49 - does this mean someone got 50 who didn't allow publishing of their name or the highest was 49?

In some subjects students the highest score won't be a 50 due to the number of enrolments, I'd assume it revolves around the fact study scores are distributed "normally".

I'm quite certain 49 was in fact the highest score in latin last year.

2) As we are all "weighting" for our results,

Spoiler

see what I did there, it can't be unseen

the methods exam 1 is worth 22% and the second 44%. Does this mean that losing 4 marks in exam 1 is equivalent to losing 4 in exam 2 or are the weighted according to their relative difficulty based on A+ cutoffs and whatnot?

The latter.

Prediction: 85.5/90 exam 1 (SOM) and 89/90 exam 2, ranked probably top 5 in a weak cohort which had 4-6 A+s in the mid year

Thank you for your time good forum folk and may you achieve what ever it is you want, I believe in you.

I'm not sure of what the difficulty of the exams were and what were/will be the cutoffs but most likely high 40's. Those are some good scores, congratulations

[daniel034]

Thank you for your help