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Author Topic: Is it still possible to get a 50 in a subject if you lose 5 marks or more SACs?  (Read 35071 times)  Share 

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man, i am so screwed, i might as well pack up and go home now.
i could write for hours and would stuggle to get an 8/10.

i can barely write at all, let alone under pressure!
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^my sentiments exactly

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man, i am so screwed, i might as well pack up and go home now.
i could write for hours and would stuggle to get an 8/10.

i can barely write at all, let alone under pressure!

This.

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see, i even struggle to spell 'struggle' properly haha!
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see, i even struggle to spell 'struggle' properly haha!

And I didn't even notice that :(

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I got 9/10, 9/10 and 7.5/10 for English to get 43. Mind you, I had kinda avergage Eng SACs...
What is considered an average SAC? Wow nice scores though :)
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^^ id say ~6-7.5
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just wondering, for SAC's would 24/30 be the same as 8/10??
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just wondering, for SAC's would 24/30 be the same as 8/10??

they both equate to 80% dont they :P
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just wondering, for SAC's would 24/30 be the same as 8/10??

they both equate to 80% dont they :P

If a test was scored out of 30 then in terms of sac rankings it would probably be a lot different then if a score was 8/10. as there would be more variety in scores like 23/30, 24/30, etc, rather then 7/10 or 8/10, even having 8.5/10 gives you less variability.. but in terms of percent and assuming ranking would have been the same- yes they are equal ^^;
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just wondering, for SAC's would 24/30 be the same as 8/10??

they both equate to 80% dont they :P

If a test was scored out of 30 then in terms of sac rankings it would probably be a lot different then if a score was 8/10. as there would be more variety in scores like 23/30, 24/30, etc, rather then 7/10 or 8/10, even having 8.5/10 gives you less variability.. but in terms of percent and assuming ranking would have been the same- yes they are equal ^^;
Haha that's exactly what I thought! I got 25/30 for my first SAC so that would be about 8.33/10- it sounds really high like that lmao.
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Haha, keep it in exact form: . Then you can say you only lost one mark... (out of six) :P
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Average SACs - I think in terms of the cohort. For term 3, I was just average. For term 4, I may have been above the average as I did get much higher SAC marks...
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Haha, keep it in exact form: . Then you can say you only lost one mark... (out of six) :P
Or you can get 0/100 and simplify it to 0/1 - only lost one mark :P

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Haha, keep it in exact form: . Then you can say you only lost one mark... (out of six) :P
Or you can get 0/100 and simplify it to 0/1 - only lost one mark :P
Lmao. Maths sure makes everything better :P
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