All of this stuff was explained to you if not at your schools (and most schools at least tried to explain it) then certainly in the various BoS and UAC publications you've received over the last two years. You think that your HSC marks or your UAI were important - they aren't nearly as...
RESPECT - an old Aretha song
The point I'm trying to make is that most adults would not DARE make the same kind of negative remarks about the grades of their friends/workmates which they have made about the grades of their children. While you'll always be our "babies", you are now all adults...
Any relatives who presumed to bitch about my daughter's "low" marks would be told "fuck you and the horse you road in on", just as any relatives who presumed to gloat about my son's "high" marks five years ago were told the same.
It's none of their fucking business unless they were there...
No, I'm not awesome. Unlike almost every other relationship in this life, you don't get to choose your kids and you don't get to choose your parents. While I would kill for my friends, I would - literally - die for my kids. And if I would not presume to put shit on the achievements of my...
No, it's the opinion of every sane parent out there as well. You do not exist to live our dreams or score brownie points for us in the "keeping up with the Jones's" stakes. You are not trophies we should shine and put on display when it suits our social purpose, only to be hidden away when...
I said it to them directly on Graduation Day, but it's worth saying again anyway.
To every single teacher who spent the extra hours helping my daughter catch up on the work she'd missed, revising the work which didn't sink into her pregnancy brain, and making yourselves available to her at...
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You must feel like absolute crap. How very sad that your parents feel unable to be proud of your achievements rather than critical of your failure to meet some arbitrary target which was set without your own happiness in mind.
My daughter was disappointed with her UAI. All I could...
Thrilled beyond belief
that my daughter not only finished her HSC, but picked up a band 6 on the run-through. Who cares about the "low" UAI, it only has relevance for the next couple of months and she wasn't going to apply for 2006 anyway. Yes, she "could" have got a high 90s UAI based on her...
No, because if you take it off your first preference you may find that this year's UAI is lower than last year's and you'll miss out on an offer. You will be offered a place in the first course for which you qualify. If you change your preferences now, you won't be offered a place in that...
You need to take a look at all the science and engineering courses offered by both universities and see which course outlines will get you heading in the general direction of the qualification you ultimately want to obtain.
Transfers between courses within the same university are often...
The course the OP wants doesn't go solely on UAI - there's a questionnaire as well, so there's still hope. Keep it as your first choice, but maybe look at changing some of your other preferences.
You don't have to do the whole thing. You can repeat units you really need to do well in, but...
The chances of the cut-offs for every single course being the same for 2006 as they were for 2005 would approach zero. Cut-offs will be higher for some courses and lower for others. Nobody can whip out a crystal ball and tell you which courses will lower or increase their 2005 cut-offs.
What subjects did you do in your HSC and how were your scores? A lot of UTS science courses have pretty tough presumed knowledge and you'd really struggle if you didn't do well in chemistry, maths, and physics.
FWIW, the SMH has a list of both raw numbers of students who made the "Honour Roll" and a list which gives the percentages for Maths and English. Alstoneville collected band 6 in 26% of the English subject attempts by its students. Not bad at all.