Achieving a 45 from current position

[georgej]

I am wondering if anyone can help me out with some questions relating to Further Maths.

I have had two SACs and scored 33/37 on the first and 43/46 on the second. At the moment, what sort of a score am I looking at?

I am wondering what I must do in order to achieve around a 45? How many SAC marks can I lose in order to still achieve the score I am looking for?

Any help would be much appreciated,
Thanks.

[Joseph41]

Hey there, George. Welcome to ATAR Notes! I don't often venture onto the Maths/Science/Technology boards, so this is quite exciting for me haha.

I am wondering if anyone can help me out with some questions relating to Further Maths.

I have had two SACs and scored 33/37 on the first and 43/46 on the second.

Nice scores!

At the moment, what sort of a score am I looking at?

It's really, really difficult to predict study scores, especially from just raw results. A study score isn't simply the amalgamation of your results, but is impacted by scaling and a whole bunch of other complicated factors. If you're interested, you can read more in this excellent thread. But the point is that it's really difficult to say.

I realise that that's not particularly useful for you, though, so I will provide a grain of (debatably irrelevant) context. At the same stage, my SAC scores would have been very similar - possibly a little worse. And my study score was precisely 45.

I am wondering what I must do in order to achieve around a 45? How many SAC marks can I lose in order to still achieve the score I am looking for?

Again, hard to say, because it's not really about your raw scores. But more generally, my main advice is to completely smash as many practice questions (and practice exams, when the time comes) as you can. Or, perhaps better put, as many as you feel useful. Your scores thus far are really good, and a study score of 45 is definitely possible. This probably isn't exactly what you want to here, but just keep working hard, and the results will come.

In summary: It's not really possible to say what raw marks you need for a study score of 45, but you're well on the way.

Good luck!

[Swagadaktal]

The thing with sac scores is that they often correlate to a level of performance on the exam. So. With your sac scores - do you think you deserve higher because you are more equipped and you landed yourself in some stupid mistakes? Or did you genuinely not know how to answer due to a lack of understanding?
Because (from my analysis) is that sac scores don't matter - they're used when calculating your study score, but from what I've gathered they don't really count for much, like for further I odn't think a 90% of an 100% will matter too much on GA1 (CAN SOMEONE CORRECT ME IF IM WRONG im not too sure about this concept) - but rather the 90% you receive on your sacs directly correlates to your exam performance in a general sense. However, if you can exceed your sac scores and do better on the exam - then you can essentially get a 49 or so in further. But, a person who gets 90% in their sacs may not get 100% on their exam - (hope this kind of makes sense?)

[Joseph41]

^Interesting points, and I agree generally. I think Further is perhaps easier to improve your performance from SACs to exams, though. Like, I was dropping marks all over the place in SACs (I don't think I ever scored above 95%*, but my memory may be failing me). But I dropped one mark over both exams at the end of the year (because I applied myself before the exams, which I hadn't really been doing before SACs).

*It's all relative, isn't it? Objectively, anywhere close to 95% is an excellent result.