Business sac

[götze]

We have the second part of our area 2 sac (chapter2) sac on monday. However our teacher gave us the case study for us to  read and be ready for the sac. Is this ethical ? and do any other schools do this ?

[lala1911]

My school doesn't do this. It doesn't seem very ethical at all. However, my teachers give out questions to their favourite students before the SAC, which puts people like me at a disadvantage.

This may be a disadvantage to you. This gives an opportunity for the slacker students to score high in the SAC, potentially jeopardising the ranks of many hard working students.

e.g Sam the slacker scores 18/20 and Harry the hardworker scores 17/20 because he slipped a few marks by accident, but he's capable of smashing the exam because he studied everything in the topic, whereas Sam only studied whats necessary for the SAC, neglecting the other content in the chapter/s.

Sorry if this doesn't make sense.

[EspoirTron]

We have the second part of our area 2 sac (chapter2) sac on monday. However our teacher gave us the case study for us to  read and be ready for the sac. Is this ethical ? and do any other schools do this ?

Hmm interesting question. Well the thing is that like hashoneprocrastinate mentioned a obvious disadvantage is when teachers give away actual questions, the matter of the fact is you won't know what's on the exam until you open the booklet in reading time; sacs should emulate this.
However, being given a case study is  beneficiary to students (I am guessing it's a newspaper article or something large), the fact is I haven't seen VCAA give a case study of that magnitude in an examination, they are usually short and sweet; therefore, as you wouldn't get something that big it's simply allowing you to read it at home really doesn't give you a massive advantage, sure you may be able to say "Oh this style of questions will be on there...." however, you wouldn't know exactly. Look at the past exams, I haven't seen anything the size of a newspaper article myself - thus as sacs emulate an exam that sac will allow you to spend time focusing on the questions (as I would imagine the exam would be like), so I don't think it's disadvantageous to students, it's just allowing you to read a case study that is significantly longer than what you would normally get, with the same time constraints with the same number of questions!

[Checkmate]

I think with the case study, if you start listing out everything possibly related to the SAC about it, like suggest mgt styles, and practically create questions out of it then yeah it doesn't sound very fair depending on how much effort each person puts out over this weekend.

I guess the greater time to analyse the case study better will be good practice for doing it faster for the exam though.