Is this cheating? Specialist SAC application task

[bobisnotmyname]

Ok, I have an week long SAC in three weeks. How does this even work, like if I find a question I can't do in the first session, I could easily go home and work out how to solve it for the next session. But this seems like cheating to me, like it would be easy to get 100% if you find all the questions you can't do at the start

[Splash-Tackle-Flail]

Ok, I have an week long SAC in three weeks. How does this even work, like if I find a question I can't do in the first session, I could easily go home and work out how to solve it for the next session. But this seems like cheating to me, like it would be easy to get 100% if you find all the questions you can't do at the start

If that's how your school runs sacs, then you may as well do that, there's nothing stopping you, and there's a very high chance others in your class will too. We had a sac like that, and 6/8 people got a+ (doesn't help but we're all basically rank 1). And our application sac is going to be like yours too.

Ultimately this is one reason why we have sac scaling from the end of year exam.

[S33667]

We've had SACS like that - you risk running out of time on the last day of the SAC if you allocate some of your time on questions from previous days.  Students who had to do that ended up with lower scores because they dropped marks by not finishing - so the scores actually ended up reflecting ability.

[bills]

It's possible that your school will split up the SAC into multiple parts, and give you different parts throughout the week. That's how my school does it anyway.

[Floatzel98]

It's possible that your school will split up the SAC into multiple parts, and give you different parts throughout the week. That's how my school does it anyway.

Yeah I would assume most schools do it this way. You get different sections to do each session which means you can't go back and complete the previous parts. I mean my methods classes have SACs that are both calculator allowed and non calculator that we complete in one session. Once we finish the non calculator part we have to hand in that section and can't come back to it later. On the other hand again, i have IT SACs that span multiple weeks that we aren't supposed to work on out of class but heaps of students do. Our teacher is slack and doesn't really give a shit though.

Anyway, if your school gives you the opportunity to do this and others are going to do it as well I would just follow suit.