How to Predict your own Study Score - A Guide

[StumbleBum]

I am quite confused how to work my SS for subjects like legal :s, how do you do it?

Which step are you stuck at?

step 4

The weighting for Legal is 50% SACs and 50% Exam.
So say you got a low A for SACs     --> 7
and say you want a mid A for Exam --> 8

Then it would be (0.5 x 7) + (0.5 x 8 ) = 7.5  --> ~40 SS

[paulsterio]

So if you get rank 1 on sacs and the exam would you put a 10 for the sac GA?
Edit: Sorry if this has already been asked/answered in what's been said, I'm a bit confused reading back.

Well no, you would put what you think the highest exam mark in your cohort would be.

[Genericname2365]

So if you get rank 1 on sacs and the exam would you put a 10 for the sac GA?
Edit: Sorry if this has already been asked/answered in what's been said, I'm a bit confused reading back.

Well no, you would put what you think the highest exam mark in your cohort would be.

I mean the sac GA - for example GA1, if I know I have the highest rank for that unit in terms of SACs. Unless that's what you meant?

[StumbleBum]

So if you get rank 1 on sacs and the exam would you put a 10 for the sac GA?
Edit: Sorry if this has already been asked/answered in what's been said, I'm a bit confused reading back.

Well no, you would put what you think the highest exam mark in your cohort would be.

I mean the sac GA - for example GA1, if I know I have the highest rank for that unit in terms of SACs. Unless that's what you meant?

Basically he's stating that the fact that you got rank 1 doesn't mean you automatically get a 10 for SACs. You get a 10 for SACs if you are rank 1 for your cohort and expecting to get rank 1 and nearly 100% on the exam, as that will become your GA1 result.

[Genericname2365]

So if you get rank 1 on sacs and the exam would you put a 10 for the sac GA?
Edit: Sorry if this has already been asked/answered in what's been said, I'm a bit confused reading back.

Well no, you would put what you think the highest exam mark in your cohort would be.

I mean the sac GA - for example GA1, if I know I have the highest rank for that unit in terms of SACs. Unless that's what you meant?

Basically he's stating that the fact that you got rank 1 doesn't mean you automatically get a 10 for SACs. You get a 10 for SACs if you are rank 1 for your cohort and expecting to get rank 1 and nearly 100% on the exam, as that will become your GA1 result.

Ok I get it. Thanks.

[Dejan]

I am quite confused how to work my SS for subjects like legal :s, how do you do it?

Which step are you stuck at?

step 4

The weighting for Legal is 50% SACs and 50% Exam.
So say you got a low A for SACs     --> 7
and say you want a mid A for Exam --> 8

Then it would be (0.5 x 7) + (0.5 x 8 ) = 7.5  --> ~40 SS

Oh okay awesome, thanks!

[paulsterio]

Remember to scale SAC scores to reflect your cohort

[datfatcat]

Remember to scale SAC scores to reflect your cohort

I don't know how to scale.  Can you help?

[StumbleBum]

Remember to scale SAC scores to reflect your cohort

I don't know how to scale.  Can you help?

Let's say for example you are rank 2 in your Further class with a low A for SACs.
Then for the exam you've studied really hard and you now expect to get two High A+'s, while you also expect the person that is rank 1 to get high A+'s.
So now your SACs will become the second highest exam mark, as you were rank 2, giving you a high A+ for SACs and Exams when you calculate your estimated study score.

Also if you were say rank 30 and were expecting to get high A+'s on the exam, you SAC mark would be what you think the 30th exam makr will be, which might be a B+.

[katykins]

This is really useful just discovered it! i tried my biology grades and study score that i did last year, and plugged it in to the equation, very very close to the 35 i achieved. it has given me peace of mind that if everything goes to plan, i will get the atar needed for my dream course! thankyou

[amstar]

That's good Katykins, I'm sure you will get into the course you are looking at

[Tragesty]

Nice tool you've made - however you only mentioned scores from 30 and above. I'm aiming for 25 in methods and I achieved a score of 3.292 using your tool - any indicators if this is likely to achieve 25? Thanks again!

[paulsterio]

Nice tool you've made - however you only mentioned scores from 30 and above. I'm aiming for 25 in methods and I achieved a score of 3.292 using your tool - any indicators if this is likely to achieve 25? Thanks again!

I don't have enough experience with <30 because I just don't have enough data to work with, what I've done is actually look at it from a statistical point of view rather than a mathematical point of view, so what that involves is me collecting a massive load of data from past students - exam scores, SAC scores and study scores and fiddling around with that to get a working model, it's in contrast to Mao's SS Estimator which looks at it from a Mathematical point of view.

But, honestly, yes you should get 25+, if you aim to get C, C, C, you should get 25+ easily.

[Tragesty]

Ah that's fair enough. I expect C's on both exams and C's for sacs, so that's good to hear, thanks again for the neat tool!

[thepikanation]

I just had my VET Interactive Digital Media exam today, and I'm really kicking myself.

See I got 73/75 for the SACs and did 40 hours of study in the past 3 weeks but when the exam come today the exam had 30% of the questions from completely out of the blue, nothing to do with anything on previous exams so I think I will only be getting 74/90 for my exam. Since I was aiming for high 40s and  have the top SAC mark and likely still the top exam mark is there any other factors that could boost my score above my awful exam today?? I am so worried I've put all this effort in for nothing! Is there any others factors or anything I can do to make my score more reasonable? Since I thoroughly believe the exam was unfair since there is no textbook for the subject.