helping cohort with SAC = good? or bad?

[joker]

If you are given a SAC to be completed at home, do you think it's right to help the friends in your class with it. It's just that from reading around here, it seems like that the general consensus around is that it's more beneficial to yourself if everybody in your cohort does terrible in the SACs, but does really well in exams. During VCE, this can lead to malicious thoughts, especially if you've mucked up a few SACs and need to do a couple of good ones to get in the higher rankings. By malicious thoughts, I mean thoughts of wanting everybody (in your cohort for particular subjects), even some of your friends do terrible and hence a feeling of not really wanting to help thinking that if you do it would be a betrayal to yourself and your ambitions to get a certain ENTER (ATAR). Is this feeling normal? If you do think this, does this make you a bad person? I mean from what I've been hearing it seems like that the whole competitive side of VCE is designed to make people become more untrustworthy and scheming as there's probably a certain stategy that you can follow to do well. What are people's thoughts?

[darkphoenix]

I think it is actually the other way around.

Like it is beneficial to help others to make your cohort stronger in SACs.

But for Exams i think it is best to just help yourself.

[the.watchman]

I think it is actually the other way around.

Like it is beneficial to help others to make your cohort stronger in SACs.

But for Exams i think it is best to just help yourself.

Nah, I don't think the strength of the cohort matters to the aggregation of scores, it's just the ranking.
So you would want them to do badly (or not as good as you ), but ace the exam, so that the entire cohort gets raised.
(I'm not encouraging you to sabotage or anything...)

[darkphoenix]

Oh yeah the ranking stuff. I dunno, this stuff is so confusing.