Discrepencies! Shedding light onto cutoff marks (1 Viewer)

[anthonykang]

Okay from what i hear, full fee allows at 5mark uai drop? So assuming 99.3 as this years cut-off does this mean the full-fee cutoff is 94.3? Because that's what it says here:
http://www.law.unsw.edu.au/Future_Students/undergraduate/admissions/2004LOCALFULLFEE.asp

Yet UAC booklet says uai cut-off for "regional fee paying" is 96.3

Can someone explain how this works? Thanks.

 

[anthonykang]

Fast reply, thanks.

Where can i check it? I only have the uac book at that's giving me a different answer then this "For admission to combined law programs in 2003 the HECS cut-off was 99.30 and the full-fee cut-off 94.30." (from website)

 

[addz]

i think last year's was around the 96-97 area...

 

[:: ck ::]

96.3 from memeory

 

[brentosbreezer]

Anthonykang,

I think that the real answer to your Q is that the full-fee req. is always 5 points lower than the cut-off, so 2004 was 94.6 [give or take 1/10 unit]

However, the uni accepts fee-based students from highest marks going downwards,

if u got above the 5pt cut-off ur still in the running!

regional UAI is a different thing I suspect,

good luck

 

[Lhyviathan]

Without meaning to sound rude, do people who pay full-fee end up struggling compared to their HECS peers?

I mean... is the Law course really so intellectually taxing that only mid 99's students can survive it?

 

[Slidey]

^ No, UAI cut-off is purely based on popularity and available spots.

The engineering courses for example have low 80 cut-offs, yet much of their content may be more challenging than that of a law degree.

 

[A2RAYA]

^ No, UAI cut-off is purely based on popularity and available spots.

The engineering courses for example have low 80 cut-offs, yet much of their content may be more challenging than that of a law degree.

exactly right....as this is the case they're only going to take the best of the candidtaes...hence the high cutoffs

 

[Minai]

Civil engineering is only around 70.

Scary to think that the bridges we drive across are designed by such dummies.

Err...they wouldn't be able to graduate and become engineers if they were "dummies"

The degree of difficulty of subjects in a civil engineering degree is pretty steep. There is a lot of advanced mathematics, physics and statics

 

[A2RAYA]

Civil engineering is only around 70.

Scary to think that the bridges we drive across are designed by such dummies.

umm it's in the 70s because it's in demand buddy....civil engineerings a growing course and there aren't enough applicants to do it hence the need to lower uai's to make it more attractive

 

[Slidey]

Civil engineering is only around 70.

Scary to think that the bridges we drive across are designed by such dummies.

It would be appreciated if you could stop making such elitist sweeping generalisations. This is not the first time you have done so.

 

[Jesus!]

Err...they wouldn't be able to graduate and become engineers if they were "dummies"

The degree of difficulty of subjects in a civil engineering degree is pretty steep. There is a lot of advanced mathematics, physics and statics

Indeedy. I heard that some think Electrical engineering Rivials Med for academic rigour.