Is it still possible to get a 50 in a subject if you lose 5 marks or more SACs?

[TrueTears]

I see. Say for Methods you have an ok ranking say 4-5th, but you blitz the exam, is a 50 or a 45+ grade still possible?

a guy was ranked 13th in our school and ended up with 47

[m@tty]

If everyone in your school gets 50-60%, and you are the highest ranked with 70%, does that affect your SS in anyway?

Nah, only the rank is submitted, but if the cohort is the same in the exam, then it matters

They do submit the raw SAC marks to VCAA...

But they don't matter.

[the.watchman]

If everyone in your school gets 50-60%, and you are the highest ranked with 70%, does that affect your SS in anyway?

Nah, only the rank is submitted, but if the cohort is the same in the exam, then it matters

They do submit the raw SAC marks to VCAA...

But they don't matter.

Ok, sorry But yeah, I meant that the ranking is all that matters

I see. Say for Methods you have an ok ranking say 4-5th, but you blitz the exam, is a 50 or a 45+ grade still possible?

a guy was ranked 13th in our school and ended up with 47

But Scotch has a relatively big cohort...

[TrueTears]

I see. Say for Methods you have an ok ranking say 4-5th, but you blitz the exam, is a 50 or a 45+ grade still possible?

a guy was ranked 13th in our school and ended up with 47

But Scotch has a relatively big cohort...

yeh he was ranked 13 and got a 47

[wildareal]

Eh, just had my first methods SAC today and I made at least one careless mistake (and possibly/probably more). Thankfully it only counts for 10% of our SAC mark, but even so, I'm hoping to gun the rest to get a decent rank ==

*hopes desperately that good marks are possible without brilliant SACs*

I know how you feel Appianway. I lost 3 on Tech Free and None on Tech Active Methods, there is so much more room for error on Tech Free!

[wildareal]

I see. Say for Methods you have an ok ranking say 4-5th, but you blitz the exam, is a 50 or a 45+ grade still possible?

a guy was ranked 13th in our school and ended up with 47

TT, what subject was this?

But Scotch has a relatively big cohort...

yeh he was ranked 13 and got a 47

[TrueTears]

this was methods...

[tram]

I see. Say for Methods you have an ok ranking say 4-5th, but you blitz the exam, is a 50 or a 45+ grade still possible?

a guy was ranked 13th in our school and ended up with 47

if your talking about the year we did it in TT the two ppl that got 47 were ranked =5th and =7th. i know cos one of them was me;) and the other was my friend

I actually reackon sacs can have a pretty big impact on your score. Another friend of mine also at scotch and even in our class TT only lost 1.5 marks all up in the end of years and got a 45 cos he screwed up one sac. He was ranked in the high teens/low twenties if i remember correctly

[TrueTears]

nope it was in sarama's year (2008), where he was ranked 1st

[tram]

my bad. Still, the thing about the second freind i mentioned was pretty weird right? Or is it normal?

[luken93]

so say if
you were from a very average school (my school) and you were ranked no 1 in your cohort and you got eg. 90% on exam,
or
you were from MHS and ranked somewhere in the top 10 in your cohort and got the same exam mark,
would one school be better off or would it be the same?
(For stats purposes lets say from my school i got the highest exam mark and from MHS i got the 10th highest exam mark)

[m@tty]

In both situations I think you were saying the moderated SAC mark would be equivalent, and the exam mark is equal. In such a case there would be no difference in the SS.

The school you go to can only effect your SAC moderation. If you are ranked highly in a strong school you are almost guaranteed a decent moderated SAC mark. Whereas in a "very average school" even in first ranking you have only yourself(and perhaps several others) to rely on -- if you make many mistakes you are screwed. But in the end everything balances out: you get the ranking you deserve and moderation allots the mark you deserve(unless your cohort makes multitudes of unwarranted mistakes)...

[tram]

In both situations I think you were saying the moderated SAC mark would be equivalent, and the exam mark is equal. In such a case there would be no difference in the SS.

The school you go to can only effect your SAC moderation. If you are ranked highly in a strong school you are almost guaranteed a decent moderated SAC mark. Whereas in a "very average school" even in first ranking you have only yourself(and perhaps several others) to rely on -- if you make many mistakes you are screwed. But in the end everything balances out: you get the ranking you deserve and moderation allots the mark you deserve(unless your cohort makes multitudes of unwarranted mistakes)...

this, however i think there will always be freak stories around where losing a few sacs marks affects your ss greatly

[kyzoo]

I see. Say for Methods you have an ok ranking say 4-5th, but you blitz the exam, is a 50 or a 45+ grade still possible?

Of course, I had a SAC ranking of somewhere between 5th and 10th and ended up with equal 2nd highest study score.

[vexx]

i know of someone who got 50 in p.e. and had a low 90% sac average, so yeah definitely possible for most subjects i'm sure!