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Re: How to get a 50 in ENGLISH?~!!
« Reply #15 on: July 05, 2008, 11:06:57 pm »
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Yeah, twas St Kevin's. We had seven 50s in both 2004 and 2005 as well, but only one last year, I think.
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Re: How to get a 50 in ENGLISH?~!!
« Reply #16 on: July 06, 2008, 03:54:00 am »
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Also, VCAA's "you get the top exam mark as your SAC score if you have the top ranking" is highly simplistic. I'm pretty sure that they actually apply a quadratic distribution to the SAC marks so that it works out roughly like that. I had my spec SACs scale from a 94 internal mark to 100 percent externally. The highest SS was my 44, so there's no way in hell that somebody aced both exams or else there would have been a higher SS. And, yes, all studies from that cohort have been accounted for. I think it's a sugar-coated plain faced lie, to be honest. The same happened in Chemistry. I got the top SS of 43 with a scaled SAC mark of 99%. If someone got 99 on the exams then they for sure would have got >43.

There's more to it than just that simplified version.
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Re: How to get a 50 in ENGLISH?~!!
« Reply #17 on: July 06, 2008, 05:53:16 pm »
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but what if you take into account this scenario.
You have a class of 13 (example). Three students always achieve scores of over 95%, which 5 students always or usually achieve scores of around 70-90% and the other five either fail or get below 70%. The top three students to well in the exam, the person ranked first gets an A, the second ranked person gets an A+ and the third gets and A+, but the rest do really bad on the exam, around D-B+. Would the top three students high SAC and exam marks be reflected in their final study score and would the students below the top three affect the top three's study score?
From my understanding, i would presume that the top three would stay were they are and the rest are affected by each other.
Can uou please explain how this works?

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Re: How to get a 50 in ENGLISH?~!!
« Reply #18 on: July 13, 2008, 08:51:54 pm »
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I think that each of them would keep their exam marks, but their SAC marks would change depending on how well the person in their position does. For example, the first ranked person would keep their A, but their SAC marks would drop down to what position their own exam mark was in. In your case, this first person got the third highest exam mark, therefore, they would lose their original SAC mark, and get the SAC mark of the third highest person (which doesn't really make much difference from the looks of it).

I believe that the other 10 have a relatively equal playing field in regards to SAC's and the exam, but will not really affect the people with the excellent marks. This is why prestigious schools  always seem to get those high study scores, because nobody does badly on the SAC's, and therefore, if they lack confidence in the exams, then their SAC marks don't get affected much, if at all in some circumstances.

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