hiphophorray123
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just a quick question, exam results are being released tuesday, but when do we actually find out what our overall grade for each unit is and hence our GPA?? same day?
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Jacks
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you can calculate your GPA yourself from the overall marks you get on Tuesday.
Marks are awarded the following points.
hd=7 d=6 c=5 p=4
To calculate your GPA you add all the points your units awarded you together and divide that by the number of subjects you did. For example if you get 1 pass, 1 credit, 1 distinction and a HD you would add 4+5+6+7, which adds up to 22, then divide 22 by 4 as that is the number of subjects you have undertaken...this would give you a GPA of 5.5.
However you will receive something in the post a few days after Tuesday with your exact marks, i.e. where within a specific grade bracket you actually fell. That is if you got a distinction, whether you got 75 or 84 etc. Your GPA will be written on the same bit of paper, but as I said you can work that out beforehand on Tuesday.
Marks are awarded the following points.
hd=7 d=6 c=5 p=4
To calculate your GPA you add all the points your units awarded you together and divide that by the number of subjects you did. For example if you get 1 pass, 1 credit, 1 distinction and a HD you would add 4+5+6+7, which adds up to 22, then divide 22 by 4 as that is the number of subjects you have undertaken...this would give you a GPA of 5.5.
However you will receive something in the post a few days after Tuesday with your exact marks, i.e. where within a specific grade bracket you actually fell. That is if you got a distinction, whether you got 75 or 84 etc. Your GPA will be written on the same bit of paper, but as I said you can work that out beforehand on Tuesday.
Jacks
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I agree, you get the credit or whatever and you can make yourself believe it was something towards the higher end...the letter comes and leaves very little to the imagination 
Or you see a credit on your results, and you check your marks and you see a 74 .... I think thats even worse off than scrapping into getting a credit. But I wouldn't know, my marks haven't been that high
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Shuter
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Remember you have to take into account how many credit points the subject was that you did, and weight it accordingly.
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LaraB
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yeah thats what i was thinkingh..Shuter said:
plus, a question for bus or law uws students who aren't 1st yr - how much do you reckon scaling changes your marks? coz i wsa just thinkin yeh u can calculate it - lol i was stressin so i figured out what i need to get a credit in each unit overall - but then realised what if they get scaled...?
Jacks
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not every unit is 10 credit points, however most are...I was working on that assumption, if any of your units are different let me know and I'll tell you how to calculate your GPA based on that...most will be 10 credit points though.
I think the only ones that aren't 10 credit points are the work placement ones, like EH218A, which have no credit points and are not counted towards your degree and post graduate subjects, which are level 7, and you shouldn't be doing those anyway
Jacks
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yeah you really don't have to worry about credit points at UWS when calculating your GPA...not usually but typically you would calculate it this way:
Your GPA is calculated by:
GPA = Σ(grade point for subject multiply by credit point value of subject) divided by Σ(credit point of subject). Meaning:
GPA = ( GP1 x CP1 + GP2 x CP2 + GP3 x CP3 + GP4 x CP4 ) / ( CP1 + CP2 + CP3 + CP4 ) etc
it's explained with an example here
http://www.boredofstudies.org/community/showthread.php?t=45647
but I seriously think the first explanation makes much more sense
Your GPA is calculated by:
GPA = Σ(grade point for subject multiply by credit point value of subject) divided by Σ(credit point of subject). Meaning:
GPA = ( GP1 x CP1 + GP2 x CP2 + GP3 x CP3 + GP4 x CP4 ) / ( CP1 + CP2 + CP3 + CP4 ) etc
it's explained with an example here
http://www.boredofstudies.org/community/showthread.php?t=45647
but I seriously think the first explanation makes much more sense
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Holy shit! (Mind the french ) Don't type things like that again Jacks! That was far too complicated!!
Well, not really, it just looks complicated. Its about time to switch my brain out of dumb mode and turn it back on for uni
) Don't type things like that again Jacks! That was far too complicated!! Well, not really, it just looks complicated. Its about time to switch my brain out of dumb mode and turn it back on for uni
Jacks
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hehe don't worry cape, I agree...which is why I thought I'd stick to the assumption that all units are 10cpts! I mean it's comprehensible, but the other way is a lot more simple and faster to calculate!