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[anti]

Independence? What's that?

 

[timmii]

Well done Minai, great marks!

This forum is going to be saturated with comm/law-ers soon! Bit of a shame considering the degree is meant to denote a complete erosion of any personality

What's required to transfer to law?
What would be needed to transfer from fee-paying to hecs?

 

[Minai]

lol, thanks timmii =)

yeah Laz told me in a previous thread that with my UAI, and the current cutoffs for Law, I'd need to get a better than Distinction average basically...distinction average is a GPA of 6, and im sitting on 6.25 right now...so I'm a chance I guess

 

[maniacguy]

At UNSW I think they'd put more emphasis on WAM than on GPA because you're doing UNSW subjects so they've got a reasonable idea of the difficulty already (I have to say I think WAM is fairer and more logical too).

 

[Lazarus]

Minai - as an update, if you do as well or better next semester, I think you'll be guaranteed a place at UNSW.

maniacguy - as nice as it would be, UAC still processes the applications, and they only use the GPA.

 

[maniacguy]

bloody UAC

Either way, you would almost certainly get into Comm/Law with results like those (the question though is whether you want to or not)

 

[sherman]

hi, guys,
my results are as follow...

ELEC2031 (circuit and system) - 90 (HD)
PHYS2939 (Physics II) - 88 (HD)
COMP1021 (Computing 1B) - 85 (HD)
MATH2011 (Several Variables Calcalus) - 83 (DN)
GENC7003 (Managing Your Business) - 73 (CR)

WAM = 83.875

cheers,
Sherman

 

[wogboy]

Hey sherman, are you an EE student?

[Edit] Just saw your other thread "Would like to learn Japanese" saying you're a 2nd year EE student. I'm doing 1st year EE

 

[sherman]

yeap.. i am EE student...
nice to meet you!!

cheers,
Sherman

 

[Ultimate]

How come at Usyd you don't get a WAM or GPA when you receive your results?

 

[timmii]

hehe, i know more non-law ppl who go to unsw drinks, than law ppl

 

[anti]

i've never been



...will you invite me?

 

[Minai]

Originally posted by Ultimate
How come at Usyd you don't get a WAM or GPA when you receive your results?

well it seems they aren't dyanamically efficient
haven't got with the times

*jokes*

either way, its easy enough to calculate your own WAM and GPA

 

[timmii]

I'm sure this has probably been said before...but how? I mean, whats the difference between GPA and WAM?

Are they done using exam or course marks, because our lovely old fashioned *grrr* uni has yet to release overall marks (i don't think...)?

 

[Lazarus]

The marks you receive via USYDnet are overall marks, timmii.

 

[Minai]

Originally posted by timmii
I'm sure this has probably been said before...but how? I mean, whats the difference between GPA and WAM?

Well, GPA is a grade point average, and the WAM is a weighted average mark...the WAM is an average of your Course Marks, and the GPA is an average of your course grades

GPA is calculated by multiplying your CP value of the subject by the grade value u got (HD=7, D=6, C=5, P=4) and adding each of these results with ur other subjects, then dividing this total by the total CP value (ie 24 for 1 semester)

 

[wogboy]

GPA is calculated by multiplying your CP value of the subject by the grade value u got (HD=7, D=6, C=5, P=4) and adding each of these results with ur other subjects, then dividing this total by the total CP value (ie 24 for 1 semester)

This is what puzzles me about the GPA system, some unis like Uni of Canberra using that system above, while others like Macquarie uni use the following system: HD=4, D=3, C=2, P=1

 

[Lazarus]

Macquarie is 'special'. UAC uses the system that Minai described.

 

[timmii]

Thanx for the explanations

 

[flyin']

The MQ system is hilarious... I mean our GPA system is as follows:

4: D or Hd
3: Cr
2: P
1: Cp?
0: F

Anyway, Ds and Hds are equivalent... so there isn't as much incentive to work an extra 10 hours a week for those few extra marks.