03'ers.. how far off was SAM for your UAI (2 Viewers)

[KeypadSDM]

At least you're consistent.

 

[KeypadSDM]

Sam only gives it to 1 dp, right? So effectively if it's 0.05 out, it's actually correct?

 

[honky tonk]

Yeah I was wondering about the +/- 0.05. I tried out a few different scenarios with my subjects, and none of them gave a result to 2 decimal places.

 

[FadeToBlack]

Actual 2003 UAI: 93.05
SAM 2003 UAI: 93.4

Difference: .35

 

[pigs_can_fly]

u can't exactly say that u wish u were in 02 or 01, cos in those years, it may have been much harder to have gotten the marks u did in 03. wot u should be looking to do is to keep the percentiles the same, and then see wot u would've got in 02 and 01. only then would the comparisons be accurate

 

[Toodulu]

nah 2001 was the year they screwed up the scaling for 4u maths and gave everyone uber rad scaling.

 

[pigs_can_fly]

and that too

 

[nerdd]

completely accurate!

it's interesting to know how much of what subject contributed!

 

[craz]

0.5 darn '01 would have been good!

 

[choco]

0.6 off

 

[KeypadSDM]

Originally posted by Toodulu
nah 2001 was the year they screwed up the scaling for 4u maths and gave everyone uber rad scaling.

My point exactly.

 

[Toodulu]

yeh i would've gotten 99.5 i think!
too bad they sacked the guy who made the mistake

 

[Lazarus]

Originally posted by KeypadSDM
Sam only gives it to 1 dp, right? So effectively if it's 0.05 out, it's actually correct?

I've fixed this - it now reports UAIs to two decimal places, rounded to the nearest 0.05.

 

[Carlito]

Originally posted by Lazarus
I've fixed this - it now reports UAIs to two decimal places, rounded to the nearest 0.05.

This actually made it less accurate on my UAI. It' now out by +0.10 instead of 0.05 for me.

 

[Lazarus]

After consultation with a few others, it seems that there might be some inaccuracies in one of the statistical tables that was released for 2003.

I'll be refining the accuracy of SAM over the next week or so on the basis of actual results rather than using an entirely theoretical basis for my calculations.

 

[inasero]

+.15

 

[suz]

spot on

 

[poloktim]

SAM was 0.55 points higher than what I got. My UAI was 90.05 SAM said it was 90.60. Laz is such a nice man, his program told me I got higher than I did! !

Well done!

 

[CHUDYMASTER]

Mine was spot on.

 

[Chand]

mine was -0.15 then what I actually got...pretty accurate