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The median UAI of the students taking your degree programme would give you a better indication. This data could potentially be obtained by making enquiries at the relevant institutions.

You have mistakenly assumed that aligned HSC marks are comparable between courses. They are not. A mark of 90 in Physics might be easier or more difficult to obtain than a mark of 90 in English. Some courses require more work than others. No attempt is made by the Board to ensure that...

It's very straightforward - they simply stretch the distribution of marks out to cover a wider range. Most schools would typically award marks between 50 and 100. Prior to sending marks to the Board, a school could apply a simple linear transformation (e.g. y = 2x - 100) which would have the...

Unfortunately, no.

That'd be me. :) The Technical Committee on Scaling performs the actual computations and then provides the resulting UAIs to UAC. You should first familiarise yourself with the You and Your UAI booklet and <a href="/other/flowchart.pdf">this flowchart</a>. Then search the forums or come...

Please don't make tangential posts in this thread. We don't. The whole point of the benefactors group is to just reward those who contribute, and to make it easier for them to continue contributing. There is no evil and secret ulterior motive. Sorry.

That doesn't really tell us much. :rolleyes:

He did, to an extent - the jury decided that he was 25% contributorily negligent. The council had placed flags on the beach around the location of the (allegedly concealed) sandbar. It was argued that this "encouraged" swimmers to believe that the area was one in which it was safe to swim. It...

Cut-offs are available via the UAC website.

Or sometimes very well, as in the case of the 2004 Ancient History paper.

That feedback was very constructive. Thanks.

Hopefully the difference is a little clearer now.

This is true - but interestingly, the raw band cut-offs chosen by the judges for each course are different.

So long as she doesn't do any worse (relatively) in the exam, you'll be fine. And no, you can't lodge appeals against students.

The distribution of marks on the (allegedly) "easier" Standard paper is reshaped to the distribution of marks gained by the Standard students on the common Area of Study paper. The same is done for the Advanced paper and the Advanced students. This removes any variations in difficulty between...

Rather than reporting to a certain precision, I think an appropriate transformation would be made to stretch the distribution of marks so that it would be possible to adequately discriminate between all students with marks reported as whole numbers.

No. It is your raw marks that are scaled for inclusion in your UAI, not the marks reported by the Board. As it is just as easy or difficult to obtain a given raw mark in both Standard and Advanced, no advantage is gained with respect to the UAI by choosing one course over the other. The...

The Board requires schools to ensure that when reporting: <ul><li>students get meaningful feedback about what they are able to do and what they need to do in order to improve their level of performance <li>the ranking and relative difference between students result from different levels of...

The "Group Memberships" page will show your application if it is pending, and will revert to normal if it has not been successful this time. I need to implement some kind of PM notification system for applicants.

Don't listen to him. You should all definitely come. :D It's at the NSW Academy of Sport again this year, with plenty of subsidised alcohol and a few extra surprises thrown in. Don't miss your chance to party and make heaps of friends - it's great going back to uni after law camp and...