Do 1st year units count in your GPA/WAM? (2 Viewers)

[flamhorn]

As the title says. Would my slacking off this year affect me in 4 years' time?

 

[goony]

Yeah they count, but they aren't weighted as much as later year subjects. Might depend on your faculty though.

 

[doink]

GPA = 3 most recent years so 1st year not counted.

WAM= weighted so first year is only worth a quarter of 4th year, matters very little.

 

[kokodamonkey]

GPA = 3 most recent years so 1st year not counted.

WAM= weighted so first year is only worth a quarter of 4th year, matters very little.

yaaaaay

 

[flamhorn]

yaaaaay

my reaction too. thanks for the info guys

 

[velox]

GPA = 3 most recent years so 1st year not counted.

WAM= weighted so first year is only worth a quarter of 4th year, matters very little.

Care to reference that? For Engineering the WAM calculation is correct, but GPA can refer to your whole uni degree also. For applications into further study like for graduate LLB or MBBS they take the last 3 years of study, but I think its best for the OP to ask his/her faculty as it varies.

 

[jannny]

GPA = 3 most recent years so 1st year not counted.

WAM= weighted so first year is only worth a quarter of 4th year, matters very little.

sounds good budd =)

 

[stazi]

GPA = 3 most recent years so 1st year not counted.

WAM= weighted so first year is only worth a quarter of 4th year, matters very little.

wrong. where on earth did you find that for GPA. even your WAM definition is incorrect

GPA = Grade point average over your entire degree
WAM = Weighted average mark over your entire degree. It is only weighted by credit points, not based on what year you did the unit

SCIWAM = weighted so that your first year units are worth less than intermediate units, etc. However, SCIWAM is only used by science (and possibly engineering) and not by many (if any) employers.

When you're applying for jobs, GPA = over your entire degree.

The only exception is where they state that only X years are counted in the calculations. However, GPA and WAM as concepts are across all the years.

 

[goony]

wow i never knew about the wam vs sciwam thing.

So only engineering and science do calculations with sciwam? Let's say you blitz first and second year subjects and don't do so well with the later years. Your WAM ends out to be in the distinction rang but your SCIWAM ends up being in the credit range.

If an employer asks for marks or what your average is, which one do you use? Are they expecting it based on a SCIWAM, GPA or WAM?

oh yeah and on another note, how would you go about counting GPA if your faculty doesn't use it? Is it out of 7 or 6, is a fail worth 2-3 or zero? etc.

 

[jb_nc]

wow i never knew about the wam vs sciwam thing.

So only engineering and science do calculations with sciwam? Let's say you blitz first and second year subjects and don't do so well with the later years. Your WAM ends out to be in the distinction rang but your SCIWAM ends up being in the credit range.

If an employer asks for marks or what your average is, which one do you use? Are they expecting it based on a SCIWAM, GPA or WAM?

oh yeah and on another note, how would you go about counting GPA if your faculty doesn't use it? Is it out of 7 or 6, is a fail worth 2-3 or zero? etc.

SCIWAM I'd reckon.

3rd and 4th year subjects are way more practical (having done 1st and 2nd year and looked at 3rd year onwards) than the previous years and actually have stuff to do with industry rather than "I can solve this ODE" or "I know what happens when you react x and y together". T

 

[shinji]

http://www.science.usyd.edu.au/cstudent/ug/wam.shtml

 

[stazi]

when employers ask for your average, you would usually give them your WAM

 

[ur_inner_child]

If you do Honours, you can count your HWAM instead, which is the WAM of your last two years

For my faculty anyway, which claims to correspond with other Honours programs in USYD :/

 

[lala2]

GPA for the last 3 years only counts for postgrad med and dent applications, if that's what you mean.

 

[spence]

For arts faculty, WAM is average of senior units only

 

[stazi]

no it's not. where are people getting these false pretenses?

 

[Rafy]

wtf at this thread. Make sure what you're saying is accurate before you say it.

 

[stazi]

yeah..idiots don't know anything. clearly they only count semester 2 units in your WAM, ignoring all semester 1 units. that way semester 1 is a practice round for semester 2

 

[spence]

From the arts handbook:

The weighted average mark

A WAM may be calculated for students who have attempted senior units of study. The WAM for students in the Faculty of Arts is the average mark per unit of study of all senior units attempted. Results of W (Withdrawn) and DNF (Discontinued – not to count as failure) are ignored in the WAM calculation.

 

[stazi]

oh wow. i got pwned. how strange. i've never heard that before