WAM and SCIWAM (1 Viewer)

[tennille]

I don't know if this has been asked already (sorry if it has), but how do you calculate your WAM and SCIWAM? For WAM, I thought you multiply your marks by the credit point value for each subject, add them up, then divide it by the amount of credit points you took during the semester. Is this right? How do you then calculate a SCIWAM?

Thanks

 

[Generator]

http://www.science.usyd.edu.au/current/ug/wam.html

 

[tennille]

Thanks. I was just looking at that then.

 

[withoutaface]

SCIWAM basically weights units higher if they're from higher years. For example say you completed:
MATH1001...70..6cp
MATH2001...80..5cp
MATH3001...90..4cp
then your sciwam would be

(1*6*70+2*5*80+3*4*90)/(1*6+2*5+3*4)

 

[withoutaface]

65 .

 

[Generator]

Not quite, Calculon. It's a credit average in the relevant senior scienceunits, and a SciWAM of at least 58, in addition to anything else that the head of the department may require. In practice, though, that final point is all that really matters. If a supervisor is willing to take you on and if the department is willing to support your application, then the faculty is unlikely to knock back your application.

http://www.usyd.edu.au/handbooks/science/05_undergradregs.shtml#bsc