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Actually yeah it is a good sign, because normally the person who places first needs to have awesome moderation for both internal and external marks.
Therefore internally, your cohort must have performed reasonably well to help push her up. Or otherwise you might have a small cohort in which case, scaling tends to work more favourably towards your external marks
Because my history teacher told me that if you are placed first in the grade, the person that comes second can really push the first-placed person's mark as if the marks are bunched up closer together (in the top range) it shows the grade has performed well overall.
Crap i hope all that meandering rabble made sense