Is it true that VCAA uses a special way of standardizing English Sacs? (GAT, Cla

[Blakhitman]

lol I got <20 for maths, so it can't have too major an impact.

Lol how did that happen! You have such awesome maths scores... 46 for both spesh and methods! Wow!

It could be that he didn't even try in the GAT?

[Twenty10]

He probably wrote about George Clooney. On another note: What happened to the kids that wrote about G.Clooney? Where they penalised? Did they get very low scores? How about the people that dedicated their entire GAT to Clooney?

[Yitzi_K]

He probably wrote about George Clooney. On another note: What happened to the kids that wrote about G.Clooney? Where they penalised? Did they get very low scores? How about the people that dedicated their entire GAT to Clooney?

As long as the Clooney references were worked in well (like in the essay about possessions bringing happiness) then you didn't get penalised for it, but if it was just random, then it did lower your score.

[akira88]

lol I got <20 for maths, so it can't have too major an impact.

Lol how did that happen! You have such awesome maths scores... 46 for both spesh and methods! Wow!

It could be that he didn't even try in the GAT?

But if he was good at maths and came across those questions he could have thought of them as piss easy and got the right answer- unless he didnt even look at the actual questions and put in any answer

[ryley]

Sorry akira88, but I didnt try in the GAT, I was pissed off after chem exam, I was sick and I just couldn't be bothered sitting there for 3 hours, slept in by accident, turned up an hour late, didnt read MC (just circled randomly), and then wrote a few pages of absolute crap. (raw scores: <20, <20 and 21) @Twenty10 A lot of people I know did include george clooney, and even those who got >40 in english and mentioned him just once (but incorporated it well) had written GAT scores, in some instances, 12 lower than their english score.

[appianway]

I had 50 for humanities, 49 for written expression and 44 for maths/science.

Either my talents oppose what I previously thought or my GAT doesn't say much.

[stonecold]

IMO, GAT = ridiculous and pointless waste of time.

It counts for jack shit unless you apply for a derived score.

I was at a pretty crappy TAFE last year, and got 39 on Maths/Science in the GAT.  It didn't effect my score at all.  The two marks I lost on exams were what hurt me.

[appianway]

I did apply for a derived score. It was approved but wasn't used

[Blakhitman]

Wait what? if you kill the GAT and do shit on the exam(s) you can ask for a derived score?

[appianway]

No... I had really bad circumstances around my midyear exams and had my derived score approved by VCAA. It turned out that I didn't need it because my physics midyear result was good enough anyway...

Though I'm not sure how GAT scores can be effective for derived midyears. After all, they're at the same time as midyears themselves...

[Blakhitman]

ohh ok lol, fair enough.

Thanks.

[chem-nerd]

Though I'm not sure how GAT scores can be effective for derived midyears. After all, they're at the same time as midyears themselves...

The GAT's only one small part in the calculation of a DES. That's why you don't actually see your DES (assuming it's higher than your actual exam score) until later in the year when they have access to all your SAC marks and second exam score.

[Twenty10]

If 'they' can derive a score accurately from the GAT, then why dont we all just sit the GAT. Unis could pick us depending on what we got on the GAT or at least on certain sections of the GAT?

[simpak]

I got like 42 in Written Comm and then some terrible score in Maths/Science.
Like 32 or something.
Yep!

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how well your cohort performs determines whether VCAA thinks your Sacs were too easy or hard and adjusts appropriately

does this mean, in a good school, people generally do poorly so the SACs get scaled up while in an average school, there's a higher chances of the SACs getting scaled down...?
Then again, if you're in a good school, but you're just an average student, making you rank just slightly below average, would you still get a higher scaled SS then a good student from an average school (since their SACs get scaled down) - speaking only based on SACs...?