NSW to dump UAI! New Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR) (6 Viewers)

[High_Pride]

Re: NSW to dump UAI!

Its was on TV. Must be true

So, who else is going to school tomorrow and asking everyone what ATAR they want and watching their confused expressions?

 

[kurt.physics]

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WTF!

Why would they change it to 99.95? Its like saying "Um... lets give the UAI some weird name and lets just go over to the random number generator and see what number comes out... oh.. its printing now!... the new UAI... i mean STAMT... i mean ATAR... is 504.50! That it! We must make an immediate announcement!"

 

[Aerath]

Re: NSW to dump UAI!

Its was on TV. Must be true

So, who else is going to school tomorrow and asking everyone what ATAR they want and watching their confused expressions?

Shotgun. If you're in any of my classes......it's gonna be a fun day.

 

[oly1991]

Re: NSW to dump UAI!

Its was on TV. Must be true

So, who else is going to school tomorrow and asking everyone what ATAR they want and watching their confused expressions?

lol yes i am so doing that

 

[Lazarus]

Re: NSW to dump UAI!

So does this mean everything is going to remain the same except the fact that the name isn't UAI and that you can't get a perfect 100 any more?

Essentially, yes.

If you want to get really technical about it - there is a small change to the School Certificate reference cohort used to convert percentiles based on scaled aggregates to the final ATAR - but most people aren't going to understand what that means, so just rest assured that it won't disadvantage you at all.

 

[electrolysis]

Re: NSW to dump UAI!

Its was on TV. Must be true

So, who else is going to school tomorrow and asking everyone what ATAR they want and watching their confused expressions?

haha, same
I guess that 2009 100UAI thread has become redundant (even though its locked anyways )

 

[dizzyizzy]

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this is distressing despite how essentially irrelevant it is to most of us.

 

[samthebear]

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this is distressing despite how essentially irrelevant it is to most of us.

i noe T_T i'm so upshet dat i've reverted tooh lolkittehy speekz T_T nuuuu

 

[Lazarus]

Re: NSW to dump UAI!

WTF!

Why would they change it to 99.95?

NSW is currently the only State to report ranks of 100.

The ranks in every other State max out at 99.95. (Except Queensland which uses a completely different system.)

In NSW, ranks of 99.975 or above are rounded up to 100, whereas in other States they're truncated to 99.95.

This meant that students with 100 in NSW could be wrongly perceived to have been ranked above students with 99.95 in other States.

That discrepancy is being removed.

It's actually not nearly as dramatic and exciting as it seems to be.

 

[Aquawhite]

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I believe that the UAC just enjoy changing and modulating things. Just to get the 'brighter' kids revved up and maybe even annoyed XD.

I welcome the change...

 

[Aquawhite]

Re: NSW to dump UAI!

NSW is currently the only State to report ranks of 100.

The ranks in every other State max out at 99.95. (Except Queensland which uses a completely different system.)

In NSW, ranks of 99.975 or above are rounded up to 100, whereas in other States they're truncated to 99.95.

This meant that students with 100 in NSW could be wrongly perceived to have been ranked above students with 99.95 in other States.

That discrepancy is being removed.

It's actually not nearly as dramatic and exciting as it seems to be.

Ah, this is much more understandable then ^_^

 

[electrolysis]

Re: NSW to dump UAI!

NSW is currently the only State to report ranks of 100.

The ranks in every other State max out at 99.95. (Except Queensland which uses a completely different system.)

In NSW, ranks of 99.975 or above are rounded up to 100, whereas in other States they're truncated to 99.95.

This meant that students with 100 in NSW could be wrongly perceived to have been ranked above students with 99.95 in other States.

That discrepancy is being removed.

It's actually not nearly as dramatic and exciting as it seems to be.

lol I suppose thats why every other state except QLD voted for it then

 

[ray ban]

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Fuck!
Whyyyyyy now i cant get 100 and my mummy will smack me in the face!!!!!!!

Fml!

 

[the-derivative]

Re: NSW to dump UAI!

Fuck!
Whyyyyyy now i cant get 100 and my mummy will smack me in the face!!!!!!!

Fml!

This is bullshit to me.
Hope they keep all the scaling of subjects the same. I don't know how scaling works in the other states, but I hope they adjust it to our system.

Also for everyone who's interested, log on tommorow morning

UAC will be making an announcement about changes to the UAI on the 10 June. Check here from 5am for details.

 

[Aerath]

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Yeah, I hope so too. I ain't doing 4U for nothing.

 

[clintmyster]

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So gay and this is coming a week after 4 kids got estimated 100 at my school haha sucks to be them

 

[occer]

Re: NSW to dump UAI!

Seems like a pretty pointless change.

 

[annabackwards]

Re: NSW to dump UAI!

Its was on TV. Must be true

So, who else is going to school tomorrow and asking everyone what ATAR they want and watching their confused expressions?

Aha, that'll be fun ^^

 

[Zedez]

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Can somebody please get 100% in the HSC this year just to shove it in their faces?

 

[clintmyster]

Re: NSW to dump UAI!

Its was on TV. Must be true

So, who else is going to school tomorrow and asking everyone what ATAR they want and watching their confused expressions?

just out of interest, what channel was it?

I put it on my fb and within like 2 mins I got 3 hits haha My inbox is gonna be so spammed tonight LOL