Question About English Study Score

Rendezvous

I admit I have been somewhat lazy in my studies this year. I have worked four days a week for most of the year and English has pretty much been the subject that I slept through to avoid burning myself out. I have averaged 80/100 for both GA1 and GA2. I have been studying hard for the exam and I am confident that I can achieve at least 27/30 for it, perhaps even 28. With these results, what study score could I expect to receive.

I understand that there are may factors at play when it comes to calculating study scores and that questions such as these have been asked numerous times in the past, but I think that some fresh perspectives would be of some help.

Regards,
Rendezvous

Bee :-)

Not sure if you've tested out the Deakin study score calculator, but according to that you're on set for a good score! 43 raw and scaled. Definitely better than my predicted score lol. Obviously scaling changes from year to year, but that calculator is supposed to be pretty accurate.

Best of luck with your exams!

Rendezvous

Hi Bee,

Thanks so much for the response. I was hesitant to go off the Deakin Calculator because it doesn't seem to rely on grade distributions and median scores for previous years. I think it mainly takes the average percentage of your marks across the year and divides it by two to get the score out of 50. For example, I'm doing French as well this year and if I inputted 60% for all of the fields, it would predict a study score of 30, which I know from previous data at my school (and anecdotal evidence) is inaccurate.

I think it mainly depends on the median scores obtained by the state. In more competitive subjects such as French, where the the average over Unit 3, 4 and the exam is 67% (I think), an average score of 60% would surely net less than a 30 study score.

I found a method of calculation in an old atarnotes discussion from 2012, and I used it to accurately predict the study score for something I did last year, but I'm not sure if this was simply a fluke. Hopefully someone with more experience than us in this area can shed some light on the topic (and preferably before 24 October 🙂). I will put the links that I referenced below.

https://archive.atarnotes.com/forum/index.php?topic=138592.0
https://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/administration/research-and-statistics/performance-senior-secondary/Pages/2022-grade-dist.aspx