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This should be your thought process when working these things out. Assumption: Marks in Standard and Advanced mean the same thing. It's valid for me to enter the same mark for both and compare the results. Result: Standard always results in a higher UAI than Advanced. Conclusion: The...

If you're good with problem solving and critical thinking, it's not impossibly difficult. I found the most challenging obstacle in first-year to be the fact that I'd never done anything like it before. http://www.scu.edu.au/admin/stuadmin/findyourplace/find7.pdf

Impossible to specify a date at this stage... news will be posted when we have it.

Mmm... yet another thing to do. :P I'll get back to you soon. In the meantime, don't feel as though you need to restrain yourself.

If you can, you should select your subjects for session 2. But you'll have another opportunity to vary your session 2 enrolment during the mid-year break.

You need to actually visit the faculty office on level 10 of the library building. :) Ring them beforehand, just in case it can be done over the phone (rare).

It'll be over a weekend around the end of the second or third week. In the past, campers have initially (and randomly) been subdivided into groups, and the members of the group were then asked whether anyone had problems with mixed gender cabins. :) I can't remember what the results were...

Well, considering he's already posted the cut-off he was told, any damage that was going to occur has been done (USYD expressed concerns about them being distributed). I was told the 2004 Main Round cut-off was 96.65. He's right about the 2003 Main Round cut-off though. I agree with you, and...

This is generally the case, yes. It may not always be so. No extra scaling is applied to your Advanced mark if you take the Extension 1 course. However, taking that extra course may encourage you to think and work at a higher level, thereby improving the mark that you would have obtained in...

Without knowing what they are, I can't say - you can PM me those as well if you want.

Re: submitting notes - we will, once we've finished developing a submission tool.

It is an assessment modeller - it calculates what your UAI would have been had you sat the HSC in a previous year and achieved the marks entered. In addition to attempting to calculate past UAIs, the UAISeeker tries to predict the scaling for the ensuing year and then uses this prediction to...

No. You were meant to use HSC marks. I can only assume that SAM should have calculated your scaled mark for English to be lower than it did. Your mark for that course falls into a range for which almost no statistics are available - all other marks are very much within the acceptable range...

Too many students place too much weight on scaling - if 'less able' students begin taking courses which have typically had high scaled means, then the scaling is going to drop. It's as simple as that. All of the scaling parameters are calculated afresh each year with regard to the new...

The accelerated course shouldn't make a difference, so long as you selected the correct year (which you apparently did). Yes, the tool is more accurate for higher UAIs. This is because the published statistical data tends to focus much more on the students who do well than those who don't. I...

I might just reiterate what honky tonk said and point out that SAM was not designed to predict UAIs. But you are of course free to interpret the information it provides in any manner you wish.

I think this thread has run its course. :)

You should probably ask a UOW student. ;)

Interesting... I was told a different (and slightly higher) figure. And it took some effort to get. They also knew about this site, and weren't too happy that we were advising their future students. I feel compelled to tell all of you that you should contact the university directly if you...

It was not a mistake. As Ragerunner said, the statistics for the two courses were reported separately even though they were scaled the same. The page you're referring to included this qualifier at the top - "Note: English (Standard) and English (Advanced) are always scaled in the same way...