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[kannonboy]

Hey, y'know how you have to count two units of English in your 10 unit UAI mark... does it matter which two?

eg. if i totally bombed out of 2 unit advanced and aced extention 1 and extention 2 can I count those instead?

I've heard rumours but the real-BOS website doesn't say anything about it...

 

[mercurydrinker]

Originally posted by kannonboy
Hey, y'know how you have to count two units of English in your 10 unit UAI mark... does it matter which two?

eg. if i totally bombed out of 2 unit advanced and aced extention 1 and extention 2 can I count those instead?

I've heard rumours but the real-BOS website doesn't say anything about it...

as far as I know, they choose your BEST 2 units of english, so to answer your question, yes.

 

[kannonboy]

*mr. burns style* "Excellent..."

 

[smegger_em]

kannonboy, my teachers said any two.
I used to quote in your sig in my changing worlds essay

 

[kannonboy]

hahaha.. nice
I stole it from some Rostrum speech I heard in Victoria

 

[Lazarus]

For verification - last year, my extension english units counted over the advanced ones, so yes, it's definitely your best two.

 

[kannonboy]

ta Laz

 

[McLake]

Thank god for that.

 

[McLake]

By the way Laz, sorry if you already said this somewhere, what subjects did you do for yr 12?

 

[Lazarus]

4u english, 3u maths, physics, philosophy, 3u computing studies (2000).

 

[McLake]

Do you mind telling me your UAI?

At leats the percentyle range?

 

[Lazarus]

Uhm, I don't mind, it's just that I've been called arrogant in the past for freely telling people (which seems stupid to me, but then again, so do a lot of things). I got 97.35.

 

[McLake]

97.35! I'm impressed.

 

[Weisy]

go Laz

sorry all - just getting back to the topic...a related question

I am in a *similar situation*, in that I did significantly better in Ext 1 than in advanced. but I don't do ext 2. Do they still count my 2 best units? And if so, how do they separate advanced english?

 

[Milly]

Originally posted by Weisy
how do they separate advanced english?

Don't they just give it a weighting of one unit instead of two?

 

[Lazarus]

Milly has the right idea.

When calculating UAIs, everything is performed on a per-unit basis. Essentially, if you have (for example) 86 in English (Advanced) and 47 in English (Extension 1), their records will show the following:

<table border=1><font size=1><tr><b><td>Units</td><td>Course</td><td>Mark</td></tr></b><tr><td>1</td><td>English (Adv)</td><td>43</td></tr><tr><td>1</td><td>English (Adv)</td><td>43</td></tr><tr><td>1</td><td>English (Ext 1)</td><td>47</td></tr></font></table>

For the sake of this example, imagine that they've already chosen 8 of your units (which just happened to be better than these ones). The final two units will be the best two units out of the three units left to choose from. At this stage of the process, all scaling has been completed, and they're simply aggregating marks, so the course or BOS 'unit grouping' is irrelevant. They'll simply take the English (Ext 1) unit and one of the English (Adv) units.

 

[Weisy]

rightio thankyou.