Is my teacher correct in saying this?

[crayolé]

Well our first SAC for methods is coming up first week of term 2.

My teacher said dont worry if you do bad in it because it only counts towards 10% of your unit 3 mark which is in turn only 33% of your final score. Thus, even if you get 100% the test only counts towards 3.3% of your study score. So dont worry too much about it

Is he correct in saying this? I thought it was all about ranking :/

[the.watchman]

Well our first SAC for methods is coming up first week of term 2.

My teacher said dont worry if you do bad in it because it only counts towards 10% of your unit 3 mark which is in turn only 33% of your final score. Thus, even if you get 100% the test only counts towards 3.3% of your study score. So dont worry too much about it

Is he correct in saying this? I thought it was all about ranking :/

In my opinion, everything counts, but yes it doesn't count for much
However, if you are going for 45+, then it is important to scrounge everything you can, as it sure is competitive at the top!

[TrueTears]

yeh i think the standardised SAC score does count towards ur SS

[physics]

my teacher never told us 'not to worry' he said the opposite and told us to compete for rank 1 ... (yay i achieved that)...but i still didnt get the academic award grrrr(sorry to rage ) off topic XD

[the.watchman]

my teacher never told us 'not to worry' he said the opposite and told us to compete for rank 1 ... (yay i achieved that)...but i still didnt get the academic award grrrr(sorry to rage ) off topic XD

Yeah same, he told us that everything counts, but not to worry too much if you stuff up.
Congrats on rank 1
I got rank 3, lost to a Yr 12 >.<

[physics]

my teacher never told us 'not to worry' he said the opposite and told us to compete for rank 1 ... (yay i achieved that)...but i still didnt get the academic award grrrr(sorry to rage ) off topic XD

Yeah same, he told us that everything counts, but not to worry too much if you stuff up.
Congrats on rank 1
I got rank 3, lost to a Yr 12 >.<

i was in year 11 so ...apparently the year 12s hated us... but ts not fair i didnt get the award >(

[vea]

my teacher never told us 'not to worry' he said the opposite and told us to compete for rank 1 ... (yay i achieved that)...but i still didnt get the academic award grrrr(sorry to rage ) off topic XD

Yeah same, he told us that everything counts, but not to worry too much if you stuff up.
Congrats on rank 1
I got rank 3, lost to a Yr 12 >.<

How many students are your cohorts? I'd die to get rank 1 or 3 in my school!

[physics]

200 probs but i still got 39 so yeh lol XD

[the.watchman]

my teacher never told us 'not to worry' he said the opposite and told us to compete for rank 1 ... (yay i achieved that)...but i still didnt get the academic award grrrr(sorry to rage ) off topic XD

Yeah same, he told us that everything counts, but not to worry too much if you stuff up.
Congrats on rank 1
I got rank 3, lost to a Yr 12 >.<

How many students are your cohorts? I'd die to get rank 1 or 3 in my school!

about 125? or thereabouts

[superflya]

200 probs but i still got 39 so yeh lol XD

u beat 200 people :-/ quite the strong cohort u had

[crayolé]

Methods is the most competitive course in our cohort, its going to be hard to break into the top 5 D;

[Ilovemathsmeth]

Counts if you want to aim for high 40s. Every mark counts there.

[kyzoo]

my teacher never told us 'not to worry' he said the opposite and told us to compete for rank 1 ... (yay i achieved that)...but i still didnt get the academic award grrrr(sorry to rage ) off topic XD

Yeah same, he told us that everything counts, but not to worry too much if you stuff up.
Congrats on rank 1
I got rank 3, lost to a Yr 12 >.<

How many students are your cohorts? I'd die to get rank 1 or 3 in my school!

If you are in the top bracket (top 10?) of your cohort, then you essentially have an equal chance of 45+ to rank 1 and it all depends on exam performance. For example rank 1 for Methods in our school last year got 41 or 42 as a study score.

[m@tty]

Just because you get 41 or 42 doesn't mean you are complacent....

[kyzoo]

Just because you get 41 or 42 doesn't mean you are complacent....

Never said that. xD I meant that exam performance is all that matters when you're in the top bracket, ignore the first sentence.