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    Moderating, scaling, UAIs etc

    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...
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    Parents Reaction to UAI marks

    huh? Didn't even notice that you had assumed my gender. I'm a very proud mum, FWIW.
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    Parents Reaction to UAI marks

    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...
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    Parents Reaction to UAI marks

    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...
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    Parents Reaction to UAI marks

    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...
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    Parents Reaction to UAI marks

    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...
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    Parents Reaction to UAI marks

    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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    Parents Reaction to UAI marks

    :( 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...
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    Parents Reaction to UAI marks

    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...
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    would uni's accept lower uai results???

    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...
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    Low UAI -___- What now?

    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...
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    Low UAI -___- What now?

    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...
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    Will the UAI's change?

    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.
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    Low UAI -___- What now?

    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.
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    obvious CHEATING in ext 2 english

    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.
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    Actual Meaning of the UAI

    Just out of interest, if you don't get your HSC (and therefore your UAI) two years after you completed year 10, do they calculate your UAI using the performance of your actual year 10 cohort (which may have completed year 10 3 or even 4 years previously) or the people who completed year 10 two...
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    would uni's accept lower uai results???

    Do you qualify for EAS. UTS has greater flexibility that most for SOME courses (not sure offhand which ones).
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    would uni's accept lower uai results???

    The UAIs on the UAC page reflect the lowest UAIs of those admitted in the main round offers in 2005 and the lowest UAIs of those admitted in the late round offers. It's further divided into the UAIs for HECs students and for fee-paying students. All in .pdf I'm afraid. 2005 cut-offs are...
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    who did BAD? I mean not 99.95 or 98.25? i mean like 60s?

    Absolutely. A massive number of people drop out of university in the first two years of their course and they have no back up plan because they always assumed that going to uni would lead them to their dream job which would bring them peace, love, and happiness.
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    please post the top 200 schools ranking info.

    The list is also on the BoS website. Distinguished Achievers List 2005
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