does sam work? (1 Viewer)

[elmo788]

hey has ani1 previously used sam and actually got the uai mark it predicted i dun wanna get my hopes up over a mark i wont get..thanks guys

 

[pLuvia]

It's suppose to be a prediction so it won't be very accurate, or sometimes if lucky is on the dot. But from previous years it has been close to the actual UAI

 

[broken_jukebox]

It is hard to use SAM before doing the HSC
like most of your internal marks do not reflect that actual internal mark that u get in the hsc paper.

For example I got ave: 93 in Advanced English
and on the paper it turned out into 88, so I was pissed off. Luckily my external was 92 and so overall I got 90 for adv english. However, if my f**king school marked [harder] properly i would've gotten the correct legitmate mark of 92.

Anyways for Modern History I was getting 60s-70s, I think my overall mark was like 73% internally. But when I did the test I got 89 externally, and my 73 was pulled up to 80, hence I got 85 for modern history. Now I tried hard to most of my subjects, and I believe if my fucking teacher marked easier I would've gotten my legit mark of 89, but then like ADV english I would've craved for a 90. But I was over the moon with 85 [though 89 is very more attractive] as I was getting 70s during the year.

And for Eng Ext. 2 I got 47/50 for internally, and 50/50 externally. Thus my internal mark (that my teacher gave me 47 got scaled up to 50) and so I got 50/50 for Ext 2 both internally and externally!

Also SAM is wrong! It calculated my UAI higher than what I actually got! I'm not gonna tell u my UAI, but SAM actually gave me an extra 1.05 uai than what I actually got, so... if you really want a precise uai prediction wait until u get the HSC results (then u'd be waiting one more day, and there's not point in looking it up anyways) OR minus 1 uai in SAM!!! And most of you nerds would find that one extra uai necessary as 1 uai will either break or make ur entry to ur uni course. I got into my 2nd course, actually it became my 1st choice in the end when i got my uai. so yeh. GOOD LUCK ALL. Im so glad hsc is over, but i kinda wanna do it again so i could do better!!! but still uni is way much better. freer.

I'm going Commerce/Arts at Usyd, so ya know I got above or in between 93.9

 

[yoakim]

SAM is only a prediction for your actual HSC test at the end of the year. And THAT test is only worth 50% and all your assessments that you did in that year is worth 50%. So SAM is only half of your actual final uai prediction.

 

[volition]

yoakim, you typically enter your marks (the average of your HSC exam result and assessment mark) into SAM, and hopefully, it will spit out a UAI somewhat close to what you'll get. SAM is ALL of your uai prediction, not just half

 

[yoakim]

yoakim, you typically enter your marks (the average of your HSC exam result and assessment mark) into SAM, and hopefully, it will spit out a UAI somewhat close to what you'll get. SAM is ALL of your uai prediction, not just half

hahaha what was i thinking, yeah uai counts for both internal and external haha my mistake

 

[dan_viper88]

Sam's pretty shit if you ask me i got a UAI of 89.85 and it predicted 91.30 thats a 1.45 drop from 2004-2005, so if you really want an accurate approximation wait until December 17th!!

 

[blackfriday]

any uai below 98 is hard for sam to predict because the marks distribution is bunched up.

 

[Akkadakka]

where do i update my profile? cos i tried to do it in my user profile, but then SAM still wont work

 

[Riviet]

where do i update my profile? cos i tried to do it in my user profile, but then SAM still wont work

Unfortunately [premium members] can't, they need to contact one of the administrators and request for the change. If you are non-premium, then read Without Wing's post.