Ranking and exam

[TheEagle]

Hey everyone
I’m curious to know what happens if one gets the highest exam mark but ranked top 5 for sacs.

[Sine]

Hey everyone
I’m curious to know what happens if one gets the highest exam mark but ranked top 5 for sacs.

Noting extraordinary happens - the student retains their exam mark (obviously) and they will still have the 5th (assuming they are ranked 5th) highest scaled sac score.

Hope this helps

[TheEagle]

Will they still get the highest study score?

[Sine]

Will they still get the highest study score?

From that information, it cannot be determined who will get the highest score.

E.g. The rank 1 student may be just 1 mark behind the highest scorer on the exam but their sac scores may be enough to negate that 1 mark difference - resulting in the rank 1 student getting the highest mark.

So really no way to know unless the gap between the highest exam score is massive or you go into the actual maths used to calculate study scores.

[TheEagle]

Hmm that’s understandable.  Would you know how the ss is calculated?

Thanks

[Sine]

Hmm that’s understandable.  Would you know how the ss is calculated?

Thanks

They will basically standardise your scores in relation to the cohort and give you some sort of z-score (where you stand in the cohort as a whole). You will get a few of these scores (for different graded assessments e.g. sacs, exam 1, exam 2). and then they will weight each of these scores e.g. sacs 33%, exam 1 22%, exam 2 44%) which will then give you an overall score with regards to the whole cohort.