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Sac modified
« on: June 09, 2018, 04:18:01 pm »
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Has anyone experienced a class Sac result had been modified ? 
For example, your result is 90/100 which is 90% or 45/50, but your actural Sac result is 42/50.


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Re: Sac modified
« Reply #1 on: June 14, 2018, 01:10:41 pm »
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This is not modification, this is scaling.
This usually happens to counterbalance the possibly biased results for a ridiculously easy or ridiculously hard SAC, therefore making schools more consistent across the state. Something like this very recently happened at my school, where too many people failed the math exam, so everyone’s scores got scaled by 3-5%.
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Re: Sac modified
« Reply #2 on: June 14, 2018, 01:37:13 pm »
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Has anyone experienced a class Sac result had been modified ? 
For example, your result is 90/100 which is 90% or 45/50, but your actural Sac result is 42/50.
yeah it's not too uncommon but the change doesn't really matter since everyone maintains the same rank. VCAA will also apply scaling to these marks.

This is not modification, this is scaling.
This usually happens to counterbalance the possibly biased results for a ridiculously easy or ridiculously hard SAC, therefore making schools more consistent across the state. Something like this very recently happened at my school, where too many people failed the math exam, so everyone’s scores got scaled by 3-5%.
it's kinda internal scaling but doesn't make the sacs consistent across the state. VCAA will do their own scaling to get your standerdised sac scores which would've been the same regardless of whether your teacher modified them or not.