Using SAM to calculate your UAI (1 Viewer)

[BillyMak]

I think I may have found a *fairly* accurate method of calculating your UAI using your assessment ranks.

I got given a copy of the 2003 moderated assessment and HSC marks for last year's year 12 students. I went through it, and aligned my ranks for each subject. (ie. say I came 3rd in physics, then I would find the HSC mark for the person who came 3rd in physics last year, and assume that mine would somewhat resemble that mark)
Do that for each subject and whack it in the Modeller.

Hope this helps, you should be able to get a list of HSC marks and what they look like as a UAI pretty easily.

Of course, your UAI depends largely on your HSC exam marks, but I reckon this method would get you closer than just having a guestimate at your aligned HSC marks.

 

[Ragerunner]

Not many schools would release the HSC marks of past years students though.

 

[BillyMak]

Meh.... I thought it was common practise that a lot of schools did.
They didn't give out names, just marks and what they look like as a UAI.

 

[Ragerunner]

Well the thing is, the UAI isn't released to the Schools. The only way the School could find out every students UAI was either use a UAI estimator or if the student tells the school what they got (hopefully it was true).

Only the HSC marks of each student are reported to the School.

 

[BillyMak]

Ahh, ok.
I think it was the latter, they didn't do all of the .xx and so on, just rounded it off to the nearest half.

 

[Lazarus]

If you can obtain marks from past years, that's not a bad method.

Your teachers would also know whether your year is, on average, better or worse than the previous year.

 

[somborac]

hey guys

whats an alignied hsc mark, is it my hsc mark, my assesment mark or my hasc and assesment mark put together??

thanks

 

[absolution*]

i believe your aligned mark to be your raw exam mark aligned in accordance with the canditure of the course

 

[nick1048]

props to laz! SAM rox!

 

[Li0n]

but with our year
03 2unit maths year had 22 people
our 2unti year has 50

another example
last years chemistry had, 3 or 2 people
we have 21 this year

their english adv had 55
we got 63

so yeah...what do i do

 

[wrong_turn]

well you see, an aligned mark is the balancing of your raw hsc marks and your assesment marks within your school. depending on the average of the assesment marks within that subject, and the average of the raw hsc marks within that subject for your school, the aligned mark could be different. though i am not sure whether the assesment mark is aligned with the raw hsc mark or vice versa.

But generally that is how it is aligned. i think it may be the assesment marks that are aligned. it could be lowered or increased, according to the average of the raw hsc marks.

hope i was of help to whoever asked the quesiotn in the first place.

 

[BillyMak]

If anyone cares, using this method about half way through year 12, I managed to give myself a UAI prediction of 96.10

My UAI, some 6 months later, ended up being 96.05.

Not a bad prediction method eh?

 

[KeypadSDM]

Yeah, our school was just crap. I ended up with 4 predictions:

End of year 10 - 97.2
End of year 11 - 98.1
Halfway through year 12 - 99.95
End of year 12 (After trials) - 99.55

The amount they were off by is astounding. Then I take my own gesses, plugged them into SAM (Before HSC results were out), and get a 99.70

Seriously people

 

[Slidey]

Yeah, our school was just crap. I ended up with 4 predictions:

End of year 10 - 97.2
End of year 11 - 98.1
Halfway through year 12 - 99.95
End of year 12 (After trials) - 99.55

The amount they were off by is astounding. Then I take my own gesses, plugged them into SAM (Before HSC results were out), and get a 99.70

Seriously people

My school's first two for me are even worse:

End of year 11 - 91.70
1 term later: 99.15

I highly doubt it will maintain itself.

 

[arunesh]

:wave:

I think I may have found a *fairly* accurate method of calculating your UAI using your assessment ranks.

I got given a copy of the 2003 moderated assessment and HSC marks for last year's year 12 students. I went through it, and aligned my ranks for each subject. (ie. say I came 3rd in physics, then I would find the HSC mark for the person who came 3rd in physics last year, and assume that mine would somewhat resemble that mark)
Do that for each subject and whack it in the Modeller.

Hope this helps, you should be able to get a list of HSC marks and what they look like as a UAI pretty easily.

Of course, your UAI depends largely on your HSC exam marks, but I reckon this method would get you closer than just having a guestimate at your aligned HSC marks.