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They're based on your raw HSC marks calculated to one decimal place... this avoids all of the rounding issues introduced with the Board's method of reporting aligned marks. Your actual aligned HSC mark might have been 96.5, but your friend's might have been 97.4 - and both would have been...

Afraid so. If your PIPs were marked by the Board, they'll have your marks on record.

Strictly speaking, scaled marks aren't comparable between years... Though I guess that given the Technical Committee has produced Table A5 (which consists entirely of a comparison of scaled marks between years) that minor detail can be overlooked when it is convenient to do so. It is...

Employers aren't going to know or understand anything about bands and standards. They won't be familiar with the distinction between Mathematics Extension 1 and Mathematics Extension 2 - they might even just think they're two different types of extension classes (unless perhaps you refer to...

You will receive notice of the outcome of your recheck in early January. (HSC students in 2003 received notice around 14 January 2004.) If a variation to your examination results is made as a result of the recheck, the Board will advise UAC and your UAI will be recalculated before Main...

No. A separate application (with an additional $12) is required for the clerical recheck.

Ideally, if you wanted to do the calculations properly, you would start with your aligned HSC marks, 'unalign' them to get your raw HSC marks, and then scale those raw HSC marks to get your scaled marks. However, we can't do this because no data concerning raw marks is published. The...

Roughly a month.

See this thread for a table setting out the distributions of grades for several UNSW law courses in 2003. I imagine it would be easier to obtain distinctions in non-law courses.

Yes, that's correct.

For the record, tina_goes_doo attained a UAI of 96.40.

Ultimately... I really don't think they're that different. Personally I would recommend making the decision based on the degree you're combining it with.

Just make sure you're very explicit when you describe what it is you're after. Otherwise there will be all sorts of administrative delays... the Board will phone you for clarifications, etc. Or your application could be outright rejected for the wrong reasons.

You can add and subtract whatever marks you want from whatever courses you like, and it will make no difference to how everything is scaled - it was just an example. Harder courses aren't scaled higher because they are harder. They're scaled higher because they're taken by better students. If...

I've estimated your scaled marks and state positions: <hr size="1"><pre>Course Scaled (/50) UAI Contrib. Percentile Biology 28.5 57.0/100 Top 47% English (Advanced) 38.1 76.2/100...

The scaling system is not new - it is the same one that has been used since 1986. Variations in difficulty between courses are removed when marks are standardised. If you took all of the raw marks from Mathematics Extension 2 and subtracted 20 from them (to simulate a 'harder' exam), it...

No. It seems UAC has little or no accountability for UAIs.

So instead of helping people reach a greater level of understanding, the details are secreted away in some Pandora's Box, with whispers of widespread panic and mass confusion resulting if they were ever to be released into the open. I don't believe that people are inherently stupid, or are...

The above two posts are correct - the immunity is only guaranteed if you are exclusively ranked first. Otherwise, where there are n students tied equal first, their moderated assessment marks will be set to the average of the top n examination marks.

They're giving five bonus points to students who study IT at ANU...