English Exam

[Heffa]

Hi everyone, just asking for some advice  
I'm thinking about getting a statement of marks and possibly having my english exam inspected and just wanted to ask if anybody knew whether my study score could actually be changed, or is it just a waste of time.

You see I was extremely lucky in the english exam. In section 'A' there was a question relating to Interpeter of Maladies which I had done in a school sac, which scored 28/30, and the prompt in section 'B' was very much alike to the school sac prompt, which scored 29/30.
I rewrote both pieces in the exam (section A exactly, as it was the exact same question and section B with a slighty different contention to better suit the prompt).
My language analysis wasn't great, but it wasn't absolute crap.

These were my grades throughout the year
Unit 3 - 90/100 - Mid A+ based on 08/09
Unit 4 - 84/100 - Highest possible A based on 08/09
with my end result being A,A,B (33)
To drag a mid 'A+' (Unit 3) down to an 'A' it must have been a low 'B' (about 34/35) which doesn't make sense to me based on the marks I received for these at school.

And also, not really sure if it is relevant but on the GAT my written communication standardised score was 41

Thanks for your help  

[TrueLight]

not sure you can always try and ask them
but i doubt it will go far

[sgeorge]

I think your cohort must not have done so well, and you were moderated down as an unfortunate consequence of this.

[xoxogossipgirl]

I understand your pain - except my sacs werent moderated down. With my exam score my teacher thinks my pieces must have sounded prepared. I guess there is a negative in doing heaps of practice and seeing similar but not the same prompts

[monicapham93]

i wasnt happy with eng either...
after averaging 95~% all year on sacs i could only pull a B+ on the end of year??? faarkk.. couldnt even crack 40

[xoxogossipgirl]

yep same - 100% on SACs and B+ on exam haha
how'd you go at solo?

[monicapham93]

35
A+ B+ A+

[xoxogossipgirl]

still good! solo's so hard to do well in so don't worry.

[Aqualim]

35
A+ B+ A+

How did you only get a 35, with an A+ on the exam?

[Souljette_93]

Seems like SACs do matter..

[monicapham93]

35
A+ B+ A+

How did you only get a 35, with an A+ on the exam?

that was for music. i assume the B+ was my performance mark, god dammit, cause performance counts for the most.

as for eng, A+ A+ B+ (stupid exam.) got me 39

[werdna]

Heffa, your scores make no sense at all... well to me, anyway.

I only had one complete essay in the English exam, plus one 2-paragraph essay and an unstarted essay. This gave me a C grade.

Ended up with A+ A+ C = 34.

[vexx]

They have only ever (according to the vcaa person in charge of inspections) changed someones study score once in the last 5+ years. It was for English due to a something like them missing a page or whatever. So... you probably can't get it changed, inspect/statement of marks and see.
Not sure if youll find much with English because it is so subjective.

[Heffa]

Yeah, the marks did not make much sense to me either haha
I have sent away for a statement of marks/study score so we will see what happens.
Yeah, agreed. There is basically no chance they will change the study score, but at the very least I want to see where I went wrong. We should never expect anything, but I thought 35 would be the minimum. A 35 in English would have pushed my ATAR to the "clearly-in" mark for the Uni course I applied for. At the moment an extra year is on the cards, so it's worth a shot to have the exam checked.

[nacho]

I say go for it, it's not a waste of time if your ss is increased even by 1.. I doubt they'd lower it