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{SAC RANKINGS} -All you need to know about it-
Ansaki:
so lets say that someone doesnt do too well in unit 3 for a subject like specialist maths or maths methods but does fairly well in their next 2 sacs (speaking that our school does 3 sacs for the whole year) and ends up with rank 1, if they ace the exam can they still manage a 45+? and what if majority of your sacs lie in unit 4 and you ace them can u still end up with rank 1?
undefined:
--- Quote from: Ansaki on June 16, 2019, 06:49:29 pm ---so lets say that someone doesnt do too well in unit 3 for a subject like specialist maths or maths methods but does fairly well in their next 2 sacs (speaking that our school does 3 sacs for the whole year) and ends up with rank 1, if they ace the exam can they still manage a 45+? and what if majority of your sacs lie in unit 4 and you ace them can u still end up with rank 1?
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Depends on your final rank after the 3 sacs but generally if you get rank 1 in 2/3 of the sacs and your final rank is say 5 if the people above you are all expecting high 40s there's no reason why you shouldn't too if not a 50. The way the system works is if you are rank 5, the 5th best exam score in your cohort is converted into sac scores and is what you are given for your GA1 (sacs) so if the 5th best exam score in your cohort is very high and you get a very high exam score as well you can expect to get a very high study score. If you get a low rank, however, it gets harder since you need to do better in the exam than if you had a higher rank in order to get the same study score. This might be a bit confusing so tell me if you need more clarification.
Ansaki:
--- Quote from: undefined on June 17, 2019, 04:20:29 pm ---Depends on your final rank after the 3 sacs but generally if you get rank 1 in 2/3 of the sacs and your final rank is say 5 if the people above you are all expecting high 40s there's no reason why you shouldn't too if not a 50. The way the system works is if you are rank 5, the 5th best exam score in your cohort is converted into sac scores and is what you are given for your GA1 (sacs) so if the 5th best exam score in your cohort is very high and you get a very high exam score as well you can expect to get a very high study score. If you get a low rank, however, it gets harder since you need to do better in the exam than if you had a higher rank in order to get the same study score. This might be a bit confusing so tell me if you need more clarification.
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i guess after the teacher told us our ranks today (ONLY the top 3 ranks and i wasnt in the top 3) i got really concerned, my main question was that can i still get rank 1 if i get rank 1 on my next 2 sacs for both methods and specialist. And i did reasonably well on my first chem sac (i got an A) and on my second i completely flunked it, i passed but it wasnt a good grade. For both i didnt get rank 1, if i get rank 1 for the next 3 sacs will that make me rank 1? does the system even work that way, or is it that you have to catch up on the marks that u are behind from the rank 1?
and do ranks get reset in unit 4? how does that work?
thanks for your help undefined.
whys:
Hello. I have a competitive cohort for psychology, and I'm not sure where I'm ranked. Probably in the top ten, I know that from scores I've heard floating around, but I'm unsure about where exactly I am. So far, my average for all of my sacs is 94% (scaled average), but we still have one more to go. Even if I'm not rank 1, will this still matter in terms of my study score? As in, do I still stand a fair chance at a high 40s study score even though I'm not in the top 3 (Well, technically I could be, because I don't know my ranking, but I doubt it)? I know rankings matter, but in the grand scheme of things will it really matter if my average sac percentage gets moderated by VCAA to around a 97~99%? (depends on the score I get on my last sac)
Sine:
--- Quote from: whys on September 09, 2019, 11:48:02 am ---Hello. I have a competitive cohort for psychology, and I'm not sure where I'm ranked. Probably in the top ten, I know that from scores I've heard floating around, but I'm unsure about where exactly I am. So far, my average for all of my sacs is 94% (scaled average), but we still have one more to go. Even if I'm not rank 1, will this still matter in terms of my study score? As in, do I still stand a fair chance at a high 40s study score even though I'm not in the top 3 (Well, technically I could be, because I don't know my ranking, but I doubt it)? I know rankings matter, but in the grand scheme of things will it really matter if my average sac percentage gets moderated by VCAA to around a 97~99%? (depends on the score I get on my last sac)
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If your sacs get moderated by vcaa to 99 you should be fine for most study scores as long as you do really well on the exam. Problems only start to arise if your cohort doesn't do too well on the exam and your sacs don't get moderated up. That really is the risk of having a lower rank is that you are depending on others to do well on the exam as well as yourself.
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