Doing badly in a Year 11 3/4

[DJA]

"2015 - crisis of self-confidence; likely alcoholism"
Just read that and had to laugh 

BTW congrats on the 50 in LOTE Ukrainian. You are a boss! You seriously have nothing to worry about.

[Mafioso]

So now my leniently marked 100% SACs (teacher hasn't been able to help with any type of improvement over the year, doesn't know the subject well) will become like Bs and I'll be lucky to get 35, let alone the 47 I was aiming for.

Can 100% SACs become Bs?!

[Vermilliona]

Can 100% SACs become Bs?!

I'm not 100% on this, but doesn't the exam mark that corresponds (in ranking between all the other cohort people's exams) to your ranking in the cohort become your SAC mark? I'm rank 1 in a fairly weak-average cohort, and the highest exam mark will probably be like a B+/A, so if that happens, my SACs will become that B+. Is that how it works, roughly? (I know there's more to it, but as an explanation for the mathematically-challenged like me, is that kind of ok?)

[chasej]

I'm not 100% on this, but doesn't the exam mark that corresponds (in ranking between all the other cohort people's exams) to your ranking in the cohort become your SAC mark? I'm rank 1 in a fairly weak-average cohort, and the highest exam mark will probably be like a B+/A, so if that happens, my SACs will become that B+. Is that how it works, roughly? (I know there's more to it, but as an explanation for the mathematically-challenged like me, is that kind of ok?)

Yeh. It's a little more complicated than that, but that's the general idea of how of how it works.

[lArcdeTriomphe]

To put it into simplistic terms: generally speaking, your Year 11 3/4 subject will be one of your bottom two subjects. Therefore, they are only weighted 10%. If you think about it, the difference between a 30 and a 40 is only one (1) to your aggregate if they are the bottom two subjects

[rife168]

I did VCE music in yr 11 and got A+ for all my SACs, but fractured my thumb before my final performance (worth 50%). I could get it postponed, but I couldn't practice in that time. I consequently bombed the performance and got a C+ for it (I think). I got 32 for the subject.
I got a pretty good ATAR, and if I didn't mess up the Spesh exam 2 (I think I got about a C+ as well for that exam) I could've got even higher.

So doing relatively poorly in a subject is certainly not the end of the world...