Exam Scaling your SACs

[AbyssFenix]

Hi all,

I was just wondering if I did amazingly on exams but my unit 3 SACs were pretty abysmal, could my SAC score be marked up even though the rest of my cohort's scores would be marked down. For context I was ranked 24 in a middle-strong cohort for unit 3 but ranked 3 for unit 4 because I started to understand the subject requirements much better.

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Hi all,

I was just wondering if I did amazingly on exams but my unit 3 SACs were pretty abysmal, could my SAC score be marked up even though the rest of my cohort's scores would be marked down. For context I was ranked 24 in a middle-strong cohort for unit 3 but ranked 3 for unit 4 because I started to understand the subject requirements much better.

This is dependent on the subject you're talking about. If it's something like methods which combines unit 3 and 4, no, your SAC scores cannot get scaled up while everyone else's gets scaled down regardless of how well you do on the exam. 
Pretend you averaged out to be rank 15 and aced the exam (100%). Your 100% exam score would be converted to rank 1's SAC scores (while you keep the exam score of course) and the 15th best exam score would be converted into SAC scores for you. So if your cohort did on average worse than how they performed in SACs, your 100% would most likely go to rank 1's SAC scores anyway, while you're left with the 15th best exam scores in SACs, hence why it would probably scale down.
If it's a subject like English I'm not too sure how the exam moderates each unit but I'm also leaning towards no. Generally, if others get scaled down and you aren't like rank 1 in SACs then you will also get scaled down.

[PhoenixxFire]

Your SAC score won't scale in a different direction to everyone else's. The point of the scaling is to make sure SAC scores are consistent across schools, it's assumed that they'll be consistent within schools, so they'll all scale the same.

Having a bad mark for U3 won't stop you from doing well though. I was in the same situation with one of my subjects, and ended up with a B for U3, and an A+ for U4 and the exam and got a 43 study score. So long as you do well on the exam, you can still get a good study score even if your U3 marks aren't great.