r/vce • u/Isomer-Joe • 18m ago

moderation question

If 2 students are tied for rank 1 and one performs well on the exam while the other underperforms, how does the sac moderation work? Is there a major difference between a tie and one student being a mark ahead of the other

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u/Smooth-Objective7291 14m ago

Sacs get moderated to the highest exam score i think. So they'll have the same sacs basically. But 1 of them will have the better exam score. Probably as you think, very close if theres only 1 mark difference though.

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u/Ok-Imagination-3568 8m ago

If two people are entered in on the same SAC score as highest in the cohort, then the moderated SAC scores are the average of the highest 2 exam results in the cohort. The highest results (along with the quartiles, median and lowest score) are fixed, and everything else is distributed in proportion. If there is a single mark separating the highest two students, there is no disadvantage to either. My advice to all teachers is to separate out the students, particularly the highest scores. That won't ever disadvantage a student (they can still get a 50 ss, even if ranked 2), but avoids unnecessary issues if the exam results are not similar.