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Were you unsuccessful at receiving an interview with your previous score?
99% of what i learnt for section 3 was useless.How similar were acer past papers to the actual UMAT? and also what techniques did you learn that you found not very helpful during this years much harder exam?
I'd say 99.9 ATAR + 96 percentile UMAT is far stronger. No one really knows what the equivalence between ATAR and UMAT is, but percentiles in UMAT don't seem to be nearly as important as percentiles in ATAR (i.e. a 2 ATAR difference >>> 2 UMAT percentile difference). This sort of makes sense as far less people sit the UMAT, and the hence the scores will be more variable at the top end.Several unis award places based on a weighted combination of ATAR, UMAT and/or Interview.
For simplicity let's say this Uni does no interviews and places are based on 50% ATAR 50% UMAT. Which ATAR marks & UMAT marks are used in this 50/50 formula?
For example, would 99.9%tile ATAR + 96%tile UMAT rank *lower* than 98%tile ATAR + 98%tile UMAT?
Thanks
Thanks for your comment. I agree that 2 ATAR difference should be >>> 2 UMAT percentile difference; I used that example mainly to illustrate it wouldn't make sense.Also please note UNSW (I'm pretty sure Monash as well) use actual UMAT scores and not the percentiles.
You mean ATAR aggregate (out of 500)? I'm not sure if universities know that... But if they did it would be fair to compare against the UMAT score.Thanks for your comment. I agree that 2 ATAR difference should be >>> 2 UMAT percentile difference; I used that example mainly to illustrate it wouldn't make sense.
On that point, since UNSW uses UMAT score divided by 3 for an out-of-100 average, I suspect they also use the ATAR score (not percentile) divided by 4 to match up. Do you think that's likely?
I found this table A9, showing remarkable consistency over 5 years 2010-14You mean ATAR aggregate (out of 500)? I'm not sure if universities know that...
Not likely to get an interview anywhere. You can always try at JCU (no UMAT) or get a 99.5+ atar for GU.I got s1 49, s2 71, s3 49 --> 78th percentile (I really understand people but fail at everything else lol)
Atar estimate is around 98 but hoping to push it up in the actual HSC
Any chance anywhere? I know I shouldn't be thinking about UMAT and should be focusing on the HSC but AGHHH I'm just so disappointed in my umat resultsIf someone could give me a reality check real quick that'd be great