People who have completed any of the following VCE subjects I need some help

[Damo23]

Hey everybody, I understand how studyscores change depending on rankings and more stuff. I was wondering if anybody has completed any of the following VCE subjects:

ENGLISH
BIOLOGY
PHYSICS
CHEMISTRY
MATHS METHODS
SPECIALIST MATHS

and could u let me know what your average was in sacs and what you got in the exam and the studyscore you ended up with.

Preferably people who have got studyscores of 25 or more I would prefer.

Just curious around about the average I would be looking
 

[keltingmeith]

SAC scores are essentially irrelevant. It depends firstly how well you did in the cohort, and then how your school is scaled against the rest of the state. So, if I gave you my SAC average, and you got that and though, "sweet, I'm fine", you'd probably get GAs way below what I did.

However, in terms of exams:

For methods, I got an A on both exams and got a study score of 38.
For specialist, I got a B on the calc-free exam (I don't know what happened there, hahah) and an A on the calc-able exam, and got a study score of 35.
I don't remember for chem, sorry, so don't ask, hahah.

My advice, though, aim for the top. 30 is average - quite literally. If you get 30, that means you're above 50% of the cohort. If you got into Melbourne, you can easily get above 25.

[Damo23]

Thanks for the info, when u say A generally 90 correct? And B guessing 75ish?

[keltingmeith]

You'd have to use the grade distribution to know for sure.

[Damo23]

Does a SS 35 generally mean scores between 70-80.

[keltingmeith]

A study score (raw) is a normally distributed scored with mean 30 and normal distribution 7. This is a bunch of gobbilty goop right now, it'll make sense in unit 4 methods. What you want to do, is go to the grade you're getting, see what score that correlates to, divide by the total, and see if your percentages are matching up. Very crude, will only work if you're doing practice exams that correlate to the year for that grade distribution, but it'll help you feel confidant about where you are.