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do the IB.

sorry virgcap, see post above

anthea and virgcap unfortunately im all booked out at the moment, so i wont be able to help you out

like every subject has a higher or standard level. i chose standard maths (still equivalent to 3U + probability, vectors, matrices and stats) as opposed to higher, and i chose standard physics. i needed to have done higher level maths or physics to have gotten in to oxford/cambridge - BEFORE...

couldnt for oxford and cambridge because of my subjects. i was so irritated when i found that out. and the us - its still full paying, apparently internationals have a pretty hard time getting scholarships. oh well theres always postgrad etc

dp624 i know. but they dont offer it to IB anyway. a friend of mine got 99.90 in the IB (a UAI which qualifies for the scholarship) but he got told he couldnt get it and seeing as i didnt get an interview for unsw i guess i was never in the running either lol

thanks simonloo and flier i wanted to stay in sydney pretty much i couldnt be bothered moving lol plus its expensive as in places e.g. usa and uk. actually i didnt apply, i always intended to stay here to be honest, i actually wanted to do medicine at sydney from the start. that wasnt because i...

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hahah yeah but i gotta get attention somehow lol

hahah thanks man im doing Combined BMedSc/MBBS at Sydney

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lol there's no science history stuff. i think theres like an option on history of science but apart from that there is barely any stuff we get examined on that isnt wholly scientific. basically looking at the uni course outlines for pretty much every chemistry and physics unit (even chem adv)...

cheers man i agree totally

There is no scaling so technically everyone can get maximum marks for any subject. I guess it's fairer that way because nothing is seen as a better/worse subject than others. But of course some subjects ARE easier to get marks in - for example it is way easier to get a 7 (maximum grade) in...

lol thanks

45 in the IB is. It's converted to a UAI of 99.95 for the stupid reason that some people who do the IB and get a UAI conversion don't sit the SC (cos they're international) and for some reason that scales it down. That's the best explanation I've heard of it so far. In every other state, 45 is...

Hey everyone, I'm Ben, and I finished High School by studying for the International Baccalaureate Diploma in 2008, getting a score of 45/45 which is equal to a UAI of 99.95, ranking me equal first in the world. I went to Trinity Grammar School. This year I will be undertaking a combined...