« Reply #286 on: October 08, 2008, 09:57:30 pm »
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I did the calculations myself and I have no idea how you got 39.
A+ cutoff was 94/120. 7 % of people get A+ or above. 40'+ is 8-9% of the state. If three 8's made 96 then you are two marks over what was needed for top 7%. Wouldn't that yield at least 40... if you presumed SACs were A+.
The way we always worked it out was 58/60 on the exam could get you 50, then for every 1 point less than that on the exam, it'd be 1 less on the study score. So a 24/30 = 48/60 is 10 less than a 58/60, and so 10 less than a 50 in English = expected study score of around 40.
Mind you, that was just a really rought way of working it out...

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