Optophobia
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- 2005
How do you know you missed it by a point? Have the cut offs been released?
No not yetOptophobia said:How do you know you missed it by a point? Have the cut offs been released?
quoted for truth.volition said:The HSC/UAI is unfair because it pretends that one number can be used to sum up a person’s ability to do anything, it doesn’t matter that I could have done completely different subjects to what I want to do at university. Who cares that some other guy would make a much better lawyer than I would, as long as I make the law cutoff and he doesn’t?
The HSC/UAI is unfair because there's no way this system can realistically pretend that it accurately sorts 60000 students across about 600 different schools, studying different subjects to increments of .05.
Wow! You just described my school.Dimsimmer said:The HSC is unfair because
- Your marks could get pulled down if your own cohort performs poorly
- You may not achieve what you want despite putting in all that effort
- It can be difficult to learn if you have a hopeless teacher
- You may not get access to resources that others may have
SkyScout said:Life isint fair... Why should the HSC BE?!?!??!?
Mind you i never got a good UAI! just live with what you have and stop complaining!
Bookie said:you should update your sig sando.
however looking at it makes me think youve disabled sigs in your options. amirite?
PwarYuex said:I wouldn't say it's unfair, I'd just say it is generally archaic, complicated, and has spawned into a really ugly creature.
Firstly, the scaling/moderating/aligning/etc system is shit. The lack of transparency and disclosure as to how it works, how a student's marks have been changed, etc is terrible. A student needs to know how much they need to get in x exam in order to get y mark. It's a fundamental rule of education that the parents and students are objectively informed as to progress/marks and requirements/goals. Saying 'I think I need to get around 95 in this exam, but I'm not sure...' is insane.
Secondly, the UAI has become such an exercise in psychological fear. The UAI number needs to be scrapped for something like AAA or AAAA, reflecting each subject as it is. Having so much rely on one thing creates huge amounts of emotional stress, especially in the kids who are in the top range - when a UAI of 99 and 98 are years away from each other.
Lastly, the fact that the UAI is a mixture of all your subjects is shit. If we adopted an AAA/AAAA system, two better systems could be in play: Either a) a student's top three/four subjects are chosen to contribute to their AAA/AAAA marks, or b) a student has to chose at least one subject from each of the three/four categories and the marks are reflective of that.
Whilst there are lots of problems with it (mainly that the number of AAA students are increasing), I say 'bring on the A-Levels!' -- it's spread over two years and gets rid of this silly UAI number business.
As it stands, kids go top themselves because they mess up one exam, thinking that it will mess up their chances of 'a career choice'.