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maniacguy

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Almost... 6.87... (you can be quiet now MinAi :D)
(Damn Microeconomics - both 1 and 2)
 

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Hey,
SoFTuaRiaL - in regards to the 60% thing - that is irrelevant at UC and ANU.

At UC if you get a PX - there is nothing you can do to improve it. At ANU you can take a supplementary exam..


At the moment I am on 7 - A LOT OF HARD WORK last semester but I guarantee it wont be 7 this semester - it was insane the work i put in last semester. I only done 3 subjects as my cadetship program didn't allow it - but the uni still classified it as full time.

What does a WAM mean ; whats the difference with that and a GPA?
 
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WAM is your weighted average mark.

So for example:

if you were to get marks of 95, 86 and 76 (ranks HD, HD, D respectively) for three subjects all worth 6 credit points, then:

Your WAM would be (95*6+86*6+76*6)/(6+6+6) = 85.66666...

Your GPA would be (7*6+6*6+6*6)/(6+6+6) = 6.33333....

Essentially your WAM takes your percentage for each subject then takes the average of those, weighting by the proportion of your workload assigned to that subject.
 

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Originally posted by Lazarus
Amazing what you can do with an animation program and a DVD. ;) Though a friend of mine made this one, not I.
Which program? I'd really like to learn how to animate...
 

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Originally posted by SoFTuaRiaL
i havent worked in 13 yrs mate!
you'll make SUCH a good actuary...loved those jokes by the way, keep telling them to my mother the CPA exec at westpac :p
 

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Originally posted by FLR-IT
is a GPA of 6 hard to obtain??
if u study half as much as u would the HSC, u should get a GPA of 6, but that depends on ur degree

Originally posted by maniacguy
Almost... 6.87... (you can be quiet now MinAi :D)
(Damn Microeconomics - both 1 and 2)
dammit!
awww only a DN in micro1 and 2?
 

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Originally posted by Lexicographer
you'll make SUCH a good actuary...loved those jokes by the way, keep telling them to my mother the CPA exec at westpac :p
i've started studying this session ... so yea ... :D
 

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mine is 6.. but the 4th subject is yet to be finalised.. i didnt work that hard last semester, i think it was that everyone else didnt
 

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yeah if u do study then 6 can be achieved.
im sitting on 5 exactly.
 

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Originally posted by Minai
if u study half as much as u would the HSC, u should get a GPA of 6, but that depends on ur degree
yeah it does, the highest for my course at uts (architecture) was not much more than 6.0

it's silly to compare your marks with other people in other courses (which is what the gpa is supposed to try and do, i think) cos yeah, everything's so different too many factors etc etc
 

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hey... i'm still not sure I get the GPA and WAM..

are they both cumulative as you progress through your degree? Or is only GPA cumulative?..

Which is the most important?
 

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Originally posted by sei
hey... i'm still not sure I get the GPA and WAM..

are they both cumulative as you progress through your degree? Or is only GPA cumulative?..

Which is the most important?
your WAM is cumulative as u progress, but u still see your "semester WAM" too on your academic statement
I think GPA would be cumulative as well, but at UNSW, that isnt on our academic statement
 

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thanks a lot for that! I was wondering why there was all this talk of GPA and it wasn't on the academic manuscript..
 

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Originally posted by sei
thanks a lot for that! I was wondering why there was all this talk of GPA and it wasn't on the academic manuscript..
no worries
heh yeah, well its only really used if u wanna transfer degree's, then they use ur GPA to work out a selection rank etc
 

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