SAC 2 Results

[Base]

Man I got 23.5/25, I lost a half mark when I said that protein gets denatured by pH, but didn't go into detail about how it gets denatured. I lost the other mark because for the question "How an enzyme works" I described the induced fit model and how it forms a complex, but didn't mention that it lowers activation energy. Tell me that's not careless .

Lol thats the same with me, cept all I said was it lowers activation energy and nothing else.

Also, one of the question asked me why 37 degrees was the optimal body temp and I didn't even read/answer it. :S

[thushan]

Hey guys, don't get too hung up on SACs - it's great to do really well on them, but given that you maintain a relatively high rank you should be able to get a really high study score anyway. My friend at my school managed 50 last year having gotten about 180-190/200 for SACs that were relatively easy; his rank would have been about 8-10 out of about 60. Good thing about biology is that there are exam scores that are almost unheard of; two of my biology teachers told me that in their many years of biology assessing, they have never marked a perfect paper. The best they have given is about 47/50 for short answer in all their years.

[Jdog]

yeah what tushan said, mind you that person in question would have smashed the exam !

70's in both !

[thushan]

He may have even gotten a premier's after SAC scaling...

[Jdog]

mm but what did our 8-10th get on their exams....

[simpak]

Oh my god you guys I keep telling you, I had like an 85-90% average on my SACs but was rank 1, that's all that mattersss.

[WhoTookMyUsername]

SACs matter very little, as long as in a decent school you maintain a top 10% average, you will be able to get a very high score come exams. The only thing with SACs is not to fall to far behind.
Biology has a lot of SACs and each one by itself is insignificant, sometimes i think they just do it to keep us honest with our study

[Christiano]

I am an exception, at a crap western suburb school where 80% of the cohort averages over 21/25 for giving answers to questions like 'What is an enzyme':

An enzyme is a protein and digests substrates so it is smaller.

Note: This answer received the full 1 mark.

[thushan]

Yeah at my school that wouldn't have been given a mark, but our SACs were also quite easy - usually the average would be 21-22/25, with lowest mark being 18 or 19.

[thushan]

Really? But I heard that at MHS the SACs are impossible...esp when that Stiglec guy marks them

[iNerd]

Ridiculous really.

Everyone says "Psych SACs are a joke" and what ends up happening is the exact same average.

You guys had an average of 22/25 - 88%
Us Psychology ppls had an average of 60/68 - 88%

Guess that gives me full permission to say Biology SACs are a joke.

[Russ]

What if the difficulty of the psychology sacs is shifted a standard deviation to the left of the biology sacs?

[HERculina]

i dont like biol sacs too. id prefer it if they just had one massive sac on each Area of Study after we completed it. and id prefer it if they weren't prac related. for our sac, the experiment totally stuffed up because apparently they ordered the amylase solution from a different company who made the starch solution blablbala .... then we spent half the lesson tryna get our results table right.......... =.=

[iNerd]

What if the difficulty of the psychology sacs is shifted a standard deviation to the left of the biology sacs?

Very cute

[iNerd]

Ridiculous really.

Everyone says "Psych SACs are a joke" and what ends up happening is the exact same average.

You guys had an average of 22/25 - 88%
Us Psychology ppls had an average of 60/68 - 88%

Guess that gives me full permission to say Biology SACs are a joke.

When a SAC has 40 MC questions and 1 SA question, it is a joke.

Fool I'm talking 2nd SAC out of 68.