My Dilemma/Interview with the Principal. (1 Viewer)

[UnIqUe_PrInCeSs]

No not many schools do it, but i really wish that i went to one that did.

but how could schools estimate ur UAI. Isn't it way too early?

 

[jiekailin]

Supposedly, Yr 11s in Ruse get theirs when we get ours. But hey, sucks to them.

My advice to Broad:

It's 5 months left. You're a smart guy, so you'd still get 95+ if you wanted to wing it. But i reckon you should employ the "try your best" philosophy. Makes our entire year look better in the end. So "All for one, and one for all", or some other aphorism like that.

 

[Raginsheep]

Find a student's relative position in his/her grade and compare it against a table of previous years results. Thats what my school did anyway.

 

[Bobness]

How many schools can call a uai of 95 'average' besides maybe ruse and maybe baulkham hills?

Unless you go to either of these schools

 

[Raginsheep]

Any of the top 10-20 schools on the school rankings that come out each year.

 

[Bobness]

um MEDIAN maybe but average i would highly doubt it .. in fact i don't think any school ever goes out to calculate the mean because it would be significantly lower than the median (take ruse for e.g. last year they advertised their median as being 99.25 but seriously do you think 170 students scored that mark with minimal standard deviation? no of course not there were something like 100 students with 99 or higher with iono 20 or so which scored in the low 90s and high 80s hence a lower mean)

but this is getting too pedantic. i think its safe to say that the thread starter will be caning the hsc if they maintain this.



















































nerd

 

[broady]

haha bobness. thanks. umm, yeah "average" does not necessarily refer to the mean, median or mode... I was just referring to it in general.

 

[Bobness]

yeah that's cool i was referring my post to others who thought 95 was the average (mean) for quite a few schools

oh and a tip .. work out what uni course you want to do and aim for the cut-off plus .2-2 uai points (i.e. if aiming for usyd law which was 99.55 in 2005 aim for maybe a 99.6 because that's the highest its ever been but if you're going for arts usyd aim for say 85 when the cutoff last year was 83 in case of fluctuating demand)

there's no point whatsoever in scoring say 95 for the hsc if all you want to do is a BA. but you seem like a smart enough guy to already know this

 

[pritnep]

If you are really worried about not getting the desired UAI, do the stat test.

 

[Sgs2006]

HAHA what a mad liar 10 minutes of work a week and estimated 95 uai
Give us a fucking break please

Yea lol, doesn't matter how smart you may be, doing 10 minutes of work a week would not get you a UAI of 95 +

 

[pLuvia]

i thought that was for pharmacy?

I think he means the RET test, or so it's called. STAT test is compulsory for pharmacy in USYD

 

[Raginsheep]

The STAT test (with the written component) is accepted by some universities as an alternative to entry by UAI.

Pharmacy requires only the MC part.

 

[Riviet]

Incidently, a friend of mine sat the STAT test today...

 

[darkroomgirl]

10 minutes of work a week is fine...

...AS LONG AS YOU COULD HANDLE MAKING UP FOR IT IN THE WEEKS LEADING UP TO THE HSC!

 

[pLuvia]

Incidently, a friend of mine sat the STAT test today...

Not me (?) But I also did it, and it was quite a good test, fairly easy

 

[pLuvia]

pffft like you can call interweb acquaintances as friends

lol, we've met haha

 

[stainmepink]

ooo oooo! i did the stat test on saturday. *raises hands*


there were a couple of questions in it that really got me thinking. such as the migrant question. i was wondering how politically correct they wanted me to be.

anyway, about the principal thing, good for you doing 10 minutes of study a day and getting a uai estimate of 95+? i think it would be more impressive if you studied longer hours and got a better uai estimate, rather than coming on bos to brag about ur effortless achievements.

 

[T-Boner]

broady, long time no see mate....

faaaaaaark cant believe all of this talk of UAI's over 90.. i think il just stick to getting ruined every weekend and gunning for that ever-elusive UAI of 65 for the course i want

 

[DeathB4Life]

you could have just PMed him instead of bumping a 4 month old thread...

 

[James87]

I agree with the idea that uni is harder than school. way harder. U can do relatively little and get 90+. At uni im working way harder and just getting credits (65-74). There was an interesting article that suggested ur 1st year uni marks drop by 20% to ur school marks.
My avg HSC mark - 86%
Avg uni mark first semester 06 - 67

Study now lol