SAC Rankings and Study Score Outcome For Further

[ziaxadon]

Hey guys, I am a student at a high performing public school and am completing Further Maths as an early entry VCE subject. So far for the first three SACs I have achieved rankings of no 1 [for both core SACS ] and 2[financial and recursion]. The third SAC [financial and recursion] was especially challenging with 2/5 students failing even with a lowered pass mark (25%). I recently completed the graphs and relations SAC and I feel like I lost a couple marks while many people did very well on that SAC. If I want to get a 50 do I have to be ranked exactly number one and kill the final exam or can I afford to hang around the top rankings and ace the final exam? 

[drepwns]

Hey guys, I am a student at a high performing public school and am completing Further Maths as an early entry VCE subject. So far for the first three SACs I have achieved rankings of no 1 [for both core SACS ] and 2[financial and recursion]. The third SAC [financial and recursion] was especially challenging with 2/5 students failing even with a lowered pass mark (25%). I recently completed the graphs and relations SAC and I feel like I lost a couple marks while many people did very well on that SAC. If I want to get a 50 do I have to be ranked exactly number one and kill the final exam or can I afford to hang around the top rankings and ace the final exam? 

Bump, someone please confirm - I am top 5 ranked at a top performing public school and would like some clarification on if a 50 is possible if I ace both exams

[Vaike]

Hey guys,
Definitely possible. I know I was ranked outside the top 5 in an above average cohort due to a bad performance in poorly written SAC. If you ace both exams a 50 is definitely reachable, even dropping only one mark or so may still get you there if the cohort is strong enough. 

[drepwns]

Hey guys,
Definitely possible. I know I was ranked outside the top 5 in an above average cohort due to a bad performance in poorly written SAC. If you ace both exams a 50 is definitely reachable, even dropping only one mark or so may still get you there if the cohort is strong enough. 

Hey, thanks for the reply
Do you remember what exactly the average for your SAC marks were?

[Vaike]

Hey, thanks for the reply
Do you remember what exactly the average for your SAC marks were?

We had a sac for each module, received 98% for Data and Statistics, 83% for finance maths (whoops), 100% for matrices and 100% for networks. Honestly, don't stress about SAC marks, I know I personally wasn't even ranked in the top 5 at my school. Prepare yourself for the exam and try your best to smash it, don't worry too much about SACs, they are definitely important, but the real game is played in November.

[zofromuxo]

Hey guys, I am a student at a high performing public school and am completing Further Maths as an early entry VCE subject. So far for the first three SACs I have achieved rankings of no 1 [for both core SACS ] and 2[financial and recursion]. The third SAC [financial and recursion] was especially challenging with 2/5 students failing even with a lowered pass mark (25%). I recently completed the graphs and relations SAC and I feel like I lost a couple marks while many people did very well on that SAC. If I want to get a 50 do I have to be ranked exactly number one and kill the final exam or can I afford to hang around the top rankings and ace the final exam?

You just need to hang around the top rankings and ace the finals exam. I know many people in my cohort, who were high in SAC rankings, but bombed the exam and did worse then those rank below them for SACS.

Financial is typically quite difficult for most people on the exam, so if you can nail that section down your on your way to the top 50.

I'm unsure what your other module is, I'm assuming geometry since you did graphs and relations. If it is geometry, then great circles are most likely your tricky section as well as composite shape questions

[ziaxadon]

Hey thanks guys for your replies and your messages! It really helps a lot. By the way since the final further exams are coming up how should I prepare for them and is it worrying that I am not doing well on the practice exams from companies such as neap, insight and kilbaha? My module is also matrices and not geo and trig.