ranking with small classes? (1 Viewer)

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hey my year is pretty small, like 40 people. Do rankings really matter with a school that small?, so say your ranked 5/8 in a subject but every one is within say 8% of each other will the 4th person get scaled alot more than the fifth if the 4th is on 80 and the 5th is on 79?

 

[the-derivative]

hey my year is pretty small, like 40 people. Do rankings really matter with a school that small?, so say your ranked 5/8 in a subject but every one is within say 8% of each other will the 4th person get scaled alot more than the fifth if the 4th is on 80 and the 5th is on 79?

For people in your situation, ranking doesn't matter too much, provided that you all perform well in the HSC externals. However if 5th onwards doesn't perform as well as the top 4, then they'll be pushed down. Therefore its the performance of your cohort as a whole which is essential.

 

[ajdlinux]

The system's basically designed so that it accounts for the gap in the marks between people. If two people are only 1 mark apart in their school assessments, their final assessment mark will most likely be very close, unless of course your teacher is marking really badly.