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cathlizross

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Want to help daughter be realistic with her score
« on: October 25, 2021, 08:21:32 pm »
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Hi can anyone advise / help, my daughter would like to get a scaled 40 for methods.
For her SACS she has got 76,90,89. I think she’s probably in the top quarter of her class.
Her practise exams she usually gets  low 60’s in exam 2 and low 30’s on exam 1. They are the VCCA and some other similar ones.
Can you give me an idea of whether she’s likely to be okay? Thank you.

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Re: Want to help daughter be realistic with her score
« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2021, 10:12:29 pm »
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Hi, I wasn't quite sure wether you meant marks in 60s & 30s or 60/30% so i've done an estimation for both.
As always, study score estimates are unreliable even when the score estimates are perfectly accurate - and no one's score estimates are ever perfectly accurate & estimating scaling of sac scores is very imprecise.

If you meant the exam scores as percentages:
Between 30-35, more likely 32

If you meant the exam scores as marks:
Between 29-33, more likely 30

Based on last years scaling report you need a 35 to get a scaled 40 study score, so your daughter needs to increase those exam scores if she wants that 40.
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Re: Want to help daughter be realistic with her score
« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2021, 10:49:04 pm »
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Hmm yeah the context isn't quite precise - I think PhoenixxFire was reading off the graded distributions literally - with those distributions they do multiply the scores by 2 since your paper is marked twice though just as an FYI :)

If she's getting low 30s/40 for Exam 1 and low 60s/80 for Exam 2 she'll definitely be fine for a scaled 40 :) (to read from graded distributions you need to x2 that mark)
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Re: Want to help daughter be realistic with her score
« Reply #3 on: October 25, 2021, 10:53:27 pm »
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Just wanted to say its nice seeing you reach out to help ur daughter, do your best to be supporitve and if she is feeling down just support her, it always means a great deal when my parents say I believe in you as opposed to them saying be realistic ya know?
"Don't give up, and don't put too much effort into things that don't matter"-Albert Einstein, probably.

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Re: Want to help daughter be realistic with her score
« Reply #4 on: October 25, 2021, 11:17:43 pm »
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Hmm yeah the context isn't quite precise - I think PhoenixxFire was reading off the graded distributions literally - with those distributions they do multiply the scores by 2 since your paper is marked twice though just as an FYI :)

If she's getting low 30s/40 for Exam 1 and low 60s/80 for Exam 2 she'll definitely be fine for a scaled 40 :) (to read from graded distributions you need to x2 that mark)

Lollll I forgot they do that 🤦‍♀️ been out of high school too long
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Re: Want to help daughter be realistic with her score
« Reply #5 on: October 26, 2021, 06:05:43 am »
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Sorry if I wasn’t clear. I means low 30’s for exam one, as in perhaps 32 out of 40, and low 60’s for exam 2 as in say 63 out of 80. She did get a 70 out of 80 in one practise, but a 59 in another so I’m just averaging. And the sacs were 76,89,90. Maybe that will help with the answer - apologies. I want to be very supportive but just would like an idea if I can expect some disappointment so I could prepare myself if it isn’t realistic! She’s a marvellous child.

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Re: Want to help daughter be realistic with her score
« Reply #6 on: October 26, 2021, 08:16:34 am »
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Sorry if I wasn’t clear. I means low 30’s for exam one, as in perhaps 32 out of 40, and low 60’s for exam 2 as in say 63 out of 80. She did get a 70 out of 80 in one practise, but a 59 in another so I’m just averaging. And the sacs were 76,89,90. Maybe that will help with the answer - apologies. I want to be very supportive but just would like an idea if I can expect some disappointment so I could prepare myself if it isn’t realistic! She’s a marvellous child.

In that case I think what I said originally would stand :) She'd be on track for a mid 30s raw study score which should be close-ish to a scaled 40 :)
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