How many marks can you drop for a 45+ SS?

[Orson]

Hey guys...I'm just wondering how many marks I can drop if I want to get a 45ish+ study score.

SACs so far:

Linear: 84% or something (I know...terrible)
CORE: 99%

My estimations for my next two SACs (Geo and Matrices) are 100% because I've studied heaps for them!

Thanks everyone!

[epichedgehog]

From what I've read on other forums and posts, you'll (generally) need to have a good sac ranking and a cohort that does fairly well on the exam, and near full marks for the exams, to score over 45. I think I saw somewhere that losing a mark in exams = -1 study score, as it can get pretty competitive.

[Orson]

From what I've read on other forums and posts, you'll (generally) need to have a good sac ranking and a cohort that does fairly well on the exam, and near full marks for the exams, to score over 45. I think I saw somewhere that losing a mark in exams = -1 study score, as it can get pretty competitive.

Wow...that is competitive! I've done 6 practise exams so far and I've been losing around 10 marks for both papers (some really dumb mistakes). I've got to get that up!

[amyhere]

Hey guys...I'm just wondering how many marks I can drop if I want to get a 45ish+ study score.

SACs so far:

Linear: 84% or something (I know...terrible)
CORE: 99%

My estimations for my next two SACs (Geo and Matrices) are 100% because I've studied heaps for them!

Thanks everyone!

It really does depend on rankings.  I had worse marks than you in some of my further SACs (80%, 96%, 100%, 100%), but I was still ranked one (my cohort was quite weak) and I ended up dropping two marks on the final exam (after a lot of practice) and still got a 50.  If you're looking to reduce mistakes on the past exams, I would definitely suggest writing a worded list of every mistake you make from now on, looking at it before each practice exam you do (and the real exam) and putting it in your summary book. 

[Splash-Tackle-Flail]

It really does depend on rankings.  I had worse marks than you in some of my further SACs (80%, 96%, 100%, 100%), but I was still ranked one (my cohort was quite weak) and I ended up dropping two marks on the final exam (after a lot of practice) and still got a 50.  If you're looking to reduce mistakes on the past exams, I would definitely suggest writing a worded list of every mistake you make from now on, looking at it before each practice exam you do (and the real exam) and putting it in your summary book.

What you dropped two and still got a 50? Did you get a statement of study score?

To answer the OP for 45+ish I'd say you have about 5 marks leniency over both exams, with rank one- for comparison someone on here got 46 and dropped 4, and I got 49 dropping two.

[Corbz]

I personally would love a 35+ in this subject, both SACs have been around 75%, I'm curious to how many marks i'll be needing to do well from here (top 5 in my class, not sure how I am compared to the other further class in my school)..

[amyhere]

What you dropped two and still got a 50? Did you get a statement of study score?

To answer the OP for 45+ish I'd say you have about 5 marks leniency over both exams, with rank one- for comparison someone on here got 46 and dropped 4, and I got 49 dropping two.

Yes, I did get a statement of study score.  My SACs ended up scaling to 100, I dropped no marks in the first exam and two in the second exam.

I do agree that I definitely wasn't expecting a 50 knowing I'd dropped two marks.. I have wondered whether it could possibly be because I applied for special exam arrangements AFTER the further exams because a condition that I have that made me need to sit out 10 minutes of the first further exam (and my GAT score was 50/50 for maths)... but at the same time I was told that the application would have no bearing on the exams I'd already done.

So I don't think my results were affected by anything.. but I guess it's possible, because I do find it unusual.