How do you calculate VCE Enter score?

Answer 1

Here we go... At school you will probably do 5 subjects (you may do 4 or 6+). If for instance Person A does the following subjects:

Chemistry

Accounting

Biology

English

Media

Legal Studies

they will get a 'study score' for those subjects for example:

Chemistry 34

Accounting 32

Biology 41

English 38

Media 31

Legal Studies 41

The four highest study scores, one of which must be an English score (regardless of whether or not an English study score was in the four highest scores) are added together, plus 10% of the next one or two scores (depending on how many subjects were completed). This number is refered to as the 'Aggregate Score'

In this case, the aggregate would be:

Legal Studies 41

+Biology 41

+Chemistry 34

+English 38

+Accounting (3.2)

+Media (3.1)

= 160.3

This is then compared to all the other aggregate scores in the state, and the highest (usually around 200) is given a study score of 99.95, and so on until the lowest score is given a theoretical study score of 0.05 (although this score would be disclosed).

A study score of 160.3 (from memory) would be around about the 80.00 mark.

Study score calculation: The most basic and simple explanation of the study score is that you combine SAC (school assessed coursework) marks with your exam marks (both of which are moderated against each other) and then compare your score to everyone else in the state and the top students are given 50, and so on, with the mean score being 30, and the bottom score theoretically being 0.

That is pretty much as simple as you can explain it without making obvious factual or operational errors in your explanation. There is a little bit more to it than that, and you should hit up the vcaa website to find out more, or Google 'the ABC of scaling' or "VICTER '11" to see it in more detail.

Hope that helped.