Improve ranking (1 Viewer)

[abdog]

Can ranking be improved? E.g if a student messed up his first HSC assessment, but aced his half-yearlies, trials and HSC, would his rank be higher?

 

[Jikky]

Definitely, it would depend on how well your cohort does.

 

[inJust]

I think mathematically speaking, yes?

 

[deswa1]

No. Whatever rank you get in the first assessment that would have the lowest weighting out of all your tasks is the final rank you end up with. /notsrs

Honestly, is this a serious question? Obviously you can improve (even if you think you did horribly, you can still improve). One of my friends (note this is a selective school so pretty competitive as well -> i.e. harder to improve ranks) was ranked like 80/132 in english adv. after the first assessment weighted at 25%. He ended up at 7/132...

Good luck =)

 

[Capt Rifle]

pump the half yearlies and trials as they have the biggest weighting

 

[brent012]

Ofcourse you can! But it can go the other way too. The first assesments are usually worth 10-20% which is not a whole lot compared to later assesments.

 

[TheGreatest99.95]

I was ranked near last out of 120 in english in year 11. ended up getting 1st. Just work hard and stop stressing!

 

[Bobbo1]

Lol, analogy wise, first assessments are warm ups to a sporting match, half yearlies are about 1st quarter, then yearlies are half time and the last few minutes are the HSC

 

[Shadowdude]

Can ranking be improved? E.g if a student messed up his first HSC assessment, but aced his half-yearlies, trials and HSC, would his rank be higher?

Well, if everyone else did comparatively worse - then of course.


I fought my way from mid-table in English to second.

 

[Drifting95]

pump the half yearlies and trials as they have the biggest weighting

I was going to say trials weigh more then half yearlies until i saw you mentioned both, dat lack of sleep really gets to you :L Investment banking hours here i come

 

[someth1ng]

You can almost certainly gain rank in any realistic situation. By realistic, I mean, the whole cohort doesn't just magically achieve full marks or extremely high marks.

 

[inJust]

I was going to say trials weigh more then half yearlies until i saw you mentioned both, dat lack of sleep really gets to you :L Investment banking hours here i come

You dont need to sacrafice sleep for good marks. I made sure I was in bed by 11-12 every night. And I still came top 5 is all my subjects. Not to mention, I was pretty lazy and watched shows all the time, or procrastinated.

 

[abdog]

So guys, the first assessment isn't going to have a big impact on atar, provided if you aced all your other internal exams? Is that right?

 

[Drifting95]

You dont need to sacrafice sleep for good marks. I made sure I was in bed by 11-12 every night. And I still came top 5 is all my subjects. Not to mention, I was pretty lazy and watched shows all the time, or procrastinated.

Yeah, i'm not one to chuck all nighters to study etc and this was a one off. Its just that i left one of my tasks pretty late, and at the last minute i had a family gathering yesterday in the arvo, the day before my exam today... So staying up was mainly to just do work i would of done in the arvo anyway.

 

[T-Hud]

Notsureifsrs. I went poorly in first Business assessment so thankfully, yes, you can improve your rank.

 

[Delta Education]

Can ranking be improved? E.g if a student messed up his first HSC assessment, but aced his half-yearlies, trials and HSC, would his rank be higher?

Rank is determined by your internal mark (assessments, half-yearlies, trials). The HSC is an external mark.

But yes, you can improve your rank, even if you did poorly in your first assessment.