My Exact SAC Scores, Exam Grades, and Study Scores

[dickslaya42]

Throughout VCE I often tried to predict my own study scores by looking up what marks people got and what study scores they ended up with. I never really found anything, so this was a futile process. I did, however, save every score, exam mark, and study score I got in order to help future students who wanted to find out the same thing. I know this website is mostly full of people who got 95+ so pls don't be too harsh about my scores (which, for the record, I was extremely proud of):
English - Unit 3: 60% (18/30), 80% (16/20), 75% (15/20), 73% (22/30) - Average 72% B
English - Unit 4: 74% (37/50), 70% (35/50) - Average 72% B
English - Practice Exam: 60% (18/30) B
English - Exam: B+
STUDY SCORE: 34
Further Maths - Unit 3: 79% (64/81), 70% (28/40) - Average 74.5% B
Further Maths - Unit 4: 78% (39/50), 77.5% (31/40) - Average - 77.8% B+
Further Maths - Practice Exam: 70% (70/100) B+
Further Maths - Exam 1: B+ Exam 2: A
STUDY SCORE: 36
Biology - Unit 3: 80% (20/25), 68% (17/25) (AOS 1 Average = 76%), 68% (17/25), 76% (19/25) (AOS 2 Average = 72%), 81% (40.5/50) - Average 75.6% B+
Biology - Unit 4: 80% (16/20), 82.5% (16.5/20), 84% (21/25), 70% (14/20), 84% (21/25) - Average - 80% A
Biology - Practice Exam: 65% (72/110) B
Biology - Exam: C+
STUDY SCORE: 30
IT Apps - Unit 3: 68% (34/50), 93% (46.5/50) - Average - 80.5% A
IT Apps - Unit 4: 88% (53/60), 96.3% (38.5/40) - Average - 91.5% A+
IT Apps - Practice Exam: 82% (74/90) A+
IT Apps - Exam: A+
STUDY SCORE: 41
History Revolutions - Unit 3: 72% (36/50), 80% (48/60) - Average - 76% B+
History Revolutions - Unit 4: 85% (34/40), 80% (16/20)  - Average - 83% A
History Revolutions - Practice Exam: 59% (47/80) B
History Revolutions - Exam: A
STUDY SCORE: 36

OVERALL ATAR: 80.15

If I had to make any comment (and if anyone actually cares), I'd say the biggest surprise was getting a 36 in Further despite some very mediocre SAC results. Keep in mind, however, that we were given very difficult SACs; about 3 kids averaged around 90% in their SACs but got 100% in the exam and ended up with scores around 47-49, so the SACs probably scaled up a lot. For the record, I corrected my exam afterwards and got 31/40 in the first exam and 56/60 in the second exam.
English was pretty much as expected.
Biology was the subject I put the most work into throughout the year, but the exam was like "holy shit what the fuck is this" kind of stuff, so I was probably lucky to even get a 30 study score.
History was a run-of-the-mill subject where my results were very consistent. An overall result of (A, A, A) was what I expected but was still a relief because history exams are fucking dreadful.
IT Apps is a little complicated; basically, our first teacher was complete horse shit and barely showed up and even if he did, he wouldn't teach (as reflected by the 34/50 in the first SAC). He left to take another job at Diamond Valley after 7 weeks, another interim teacher basically babysat our class for the sake of checking attendance and didn't teach anything, and the software development teacher wrote and marked all our SACs. My 68% was the 3rd highest score in the class, and technically it was 2nd because the person who got a higher score than me cheated. Then we got a new teacher who was an absolute gun coming straight from uni (I think he was about 22 years old) and he is, to date, the best teacher I've ever had. The rest speaks for itself and he basically saved my ATAR and helped me get a 41, despite the fuckery that happened at the start of the year. One dude who was a complete IT Wizard (and managed 88% without cheating on the first SAC despite the fuckery) ended up with a 46 and he also helped me a lot.
If I had to give any advice, I'd say never give yourself a distinct bottom 10%, because I did exactly that and the original bottom 10 I thought I'd have was 6 study score points higher than my actual 10%. Same story with a lot of my friends as well; e.g. my friend who gave up on music and got a 22, but ended up doing WAY worse than he thought in drama and got a 28. Regrets basically everything.
Good luck, current year 12s. Try your best and you'll have no regrets.

[Darth_Pepe]

Pretty cool thanks for sharing

[dickslaya42]

Thankyou, rare darth pepe

For the record I'd be very interested in seeing other people's marks and final study scores if they have them down somewhere. Even if it's just rough estimates going off memory.

[Gromekk]

Only 1 subject but here goes

Bio,
GA1 89/100 Bottom A cutoff (2014)
GA2 94/100  Mid A (2014)
Usually scored around 85% on practice exams but got an A+ on the real thing
SS 46

Pretty sure I fluked the exam a bit, it was pretty hard and was pretty surprised with my ss. My sac marks got scaled to A+

[dickslaya42]

Only 1 subject but here goes

Bio,
GA1 89/100 Bottom A cutoff (2014)
GA2 94/100  Mid A (2014)
Usually scored around 85% on practice exams but got an A+ on the real thing
SS 46

Pretty sure I fluked the exam a bit, it was pretty hard and was pretty surprised with my ss. My sac marks got scaled to A+

Impressive results
I was NOT prepared for all of that Evolution stuff! I focused really hard on transcription and translation and a lot of Unit 3 stuff because that was my weak point, didn't stress at all about Unit 4 because my results were way better and still fresh in my head. At least I got the marks for the question about transcription!
I had a lot of friends get similar SAC results to you, but since the Biology exam is clustered between English, Psych, and Further, a lot of them couldn't really focus on Biology much and ended up getting study scores in the low 30s.
Well done on your 46 though. You should kill the rest of your exams this year if you did that well on that rather ambiguous exam.

[shlblk]

Here's my two:

IT Applications
Unit 3: Total: 96/100 - A+
SAC 1 - 48/50
SAC 2 - 48/50
Unit 4: Total: 95/100 - A+
SAC 1 - 56/60
SAC 2 - 39/40
Practice Exams: Completed 16, apart from the first few I did, most were between 75-85%, never got over 90%.
Actual Exam: 150/180 - A+
SS 44

Religion and Society
Unit 3: Total: 100/100 - A+
SAC 1 - 30/30
SAC 2 - 40/40
SAC 3 - 30/30
Unit 4: Total: 100/100 - A+
SAC 1 - 50/50
SAC 2 - 50/50
Practice Exams: Completed 7, with huge variance, from 60-85%. Also completed lots of practice essays separately, usually 10-15/20.
Actual Exam: 111/160 - A
SS 40

[Gromekk]

Do you know your ranking in your cohort?

#1 of 11, only 1 other person got above 30

[Splash-Tackle-Flail]

#1 of 11, only 1 other person got above 30

#rurallife

[dickslaya42]

Here's my two:

IT Applications
Unit 3: Total: 96/100 - A+
SAC 1 - 48/50
SAC 2 - 48/50
Unit 4: Total: 95/100 - A+
SAC 1 - 56/60
SAC 2 - 39/40
Practice Exams: Completed 16, apart from the first few I did, most were between 75-85%, never got over 90%.
Actual Exam: 150/180 - A+

Religion and Society
Unit 3: Total: 100/100 - A+
SAC 1 - 30/30
SAC 2 - 40/40
SAC 3 - 30/30
Unit 4: Total: 100/100 - A+
SAC 1 - 50/50
SAC 2 - 50/50
Practice Exams: Completed 7, with huge variance, from 60-85%. Also completed lots of practice essays separately, usually 10-15/20.
Actual Exam: 111/160 - A

Your SACs were definitely better than the guy who got 46 in my class which is strange. I'm pretty sure he would've got at least 165/180 in the exam. We discussed answers and when we checked Mark Kelly's post mortem pretty much all his answers were there, except instead of spreadsheets we had to do access which was slightly difficult because it seemed as though a lot of those spreadsheet or access questions were tailored/favourable for people who did spreadsheets, because in the contest of the question, you'd never run into much in the way of calculations like the question asked for... my answer for that one was fairly general and the dude who got 46 told me he went to a lecture and knew how to answer it and it was pretty different to what I wrote. I might have got sympathy marks if I managed to still get A+ though.