Bands and the UAI (1 Viewer)

[Rand]

Hi all,

Is it true that your bands dont really affect your UAI, because UAC uses your raw marks (which we never see) and scales them accordingly?

Eg. A band six in a poorly scaled subject such as Family Community Studies or IPT may be scaled down to the 80's, not neccesarily giving the student an exceptional UAI...

Is this theory right?

If so, what would you think about the following results:

Highest Bands (Band 6 or Band E4) in:
English Extension 1
Maths Extension 1
Maths Extension 2
Chemistry
Economics

and a high Band 5 in:
English Advanced
..........

What UAI is that likely to result in, assuming that one unit of EngX1 and one unit of Eng Advanced are counted as "the best 2 units of English"

Thanks for your help all

Til we meet again....

 

[jimbo]

wow u hab great marks and even though i hab no idea how the uai system works u are definitely close to 99. Do u happen to know why ipt gets scaled down so much?

 

[Jeo]

read the link in my sig

jimbo, because of course candidature

 

[Rand]

Jesh, I did read your post,, and it didnt help...

HEHE, I read it BEFORE posting this thread!

 

[Newbie]

i hope to be in the same boat as you rand hehehe

 

[Ragerunner]

The amount you get scaled down/up when your raw marks are quite high is very minimal.

 

[Jeo]

Originally posted by Rand
Hi all,

Is it true that your bands dont really affect your UAI, because UAC uses your raw marks (which we never see) and scales them accordingly?

Eg. A band six in a poorly scaled subject such as Family Community Studies or IPT may be scaled down to the 80's, not neccesarily giving the student an exceptional UAI...

Is this theory right?

If so, what would you think about the following results:

Highest Bands (Band 6 or Band E4) in:
English Extension 1
Maths Extension 1
Maths Extension 2
Chemistry
Economics

and a high Band 5 in:
English Advanced
..........

What UAI is that likely to result in, assuming that one unit of EngX1 and one unit of Eng Advanced are counted as "the best 2 units of English"

Thanks for your help all

Til we meet again....

well, high end of the 90's

 

[Lazarus]

*weakly motions towards the uaiseeker website, and then sighs hopelessly*

Originally posted by Rand
Is it true that your bands dont really affect your UAI, because UAC uses your raw marks (which we never see) and scales them accordingly?

Exactly so.

Originally posted by Rand
If so, what would you think about the following results:
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I would think that it depends very much on the year.

e.g. 99 in 2001 and 98 in 2002.

 

[Minai]

Something tells me marks are gonna get much better this year, making higher UAI's much tougher to gain

edit: sorry for the engrish...its 12:30am

 

[Ragerunner]

Thats good to know

They go up every year anyway. I wish I did my HSC in 2001 :/

 

[Jeo]

Originally posted by Minai
Something tells me marks are gonna get much better this year, making higher UAI's much tougher to gain

edit: sorry for the engrish...its 12:30am

that works how?

 

[Lazarus]

It doesn't really mean that the higher UAIs will be more difficult to attain... it just means that most of our predictions will probably be too high.

Though they can't exactly get much higher... 50% of adv eng in bands 5 and 6 last year, what next? The Board was throwing around the idea of adding a 'band 7' at one stage...

 

[Newbie]

since last year's marks were higher than 2001's
wouldnt this year exams be uber hard again?

 

[Ragerunner]

They can't really make Advanced English that much harder.

Unless they introduce a whole new question such as asking you to write a 3-way conversation in the transformation topic.

Which I don't think i've ever seen

 

[Lazarus]

Originally posted by Newbie
since last year's marks were higher than 2001's
wouldnt this year exams be uber hard again?

The aligning process is meant to take into account the difficulty of the exams - part of the reason for a standards-based system is to allow marks to be compared between years. If the candidatures keep getting better, the marks are going to keep going up...