What is The Highest WAM you've ever heard? (1 Viewer)

[Survivor39]

What is The Highest WAM you've ever heard of?

98?? 99?? 100???

 

[enak]

How could you possibly have a wam of 100?

Would that mean that you are a perfect student?

 

[underthesun]

dean's choice

btw anybody know how to derive GPAs from WAMs? or is it not supposed to be from WAMs? (<-- confused being)

 

[saves.the.day]

Whats a WAM?

 

[sunny]

Originally posted by saves.the.day
Whats a WAM?

https://my.unsw.edu.au/student/atoz/Wam.html

 

[jm1234567890]

they seem to mark alot harder in uni, i don't think even 98 is possible

 

[Lazarus]

I have friends who have scored 99 and 100 in individual subjects... but never more than once.

 

[wogboy]

There's a girl I know in my course with a WAM of 94 point something. That's the highest I've heard so far.

 

[santaslayer]

Everyone post their WAMs!!!

 

[Minai]

my WAM is 77.225 methinks
just over a distinction average
though I expect that to fall dramatically at the end of this session =/

 

[enak]

Originally posted by wogboy
There's a girl I know in my course with a WAM of 94 point something. That's the highest I've heard so far.

OMFG lol, that's crazy.

 

[clive]

83.25...going to plummet after semester 1 this year (2nd year) though

 

[santaslayer]

How is the WAM derived again?....the average of credit points?

 

[enak]

Originally posted by santaslayer
How is the WAM derived again?....the average of credit points?

Average of marks in each course, and I would imagine the 6UOC courses would weigh more than the 3UOC courses.
Someone please confirm or correct

 

[wogboy]

Average of marks in each course, and I would imagine the 6UOC courses would weigh more than the 3UOC courses.

Yes.
WAM = { (course1 mark)*(course1 UOC) + (course2 mark)*(course2 UOC) + ... }/(total UOC)

 

[googy_1985]

My sister has got 99 in 1 IT subject @ ANU- the lecture wrote to her telling her it was the highest ever in that subject!!!! She is in her last yr of Comm/IT and has all HDS except 1 D i think...

We dont use WAM etc etc done here in ACT so i am not sure what she got

 

[Survivor39]

Originally posted by Lazarus
I have friends who have scored 99 and 100 in individual subjects... but never more than once.

Someone in Psyc1001 scored 104 last year.
The extra 4 is for participating optional experiments

 

[enak]

Originally posted by Survivor39
Someone in Psyc1001 scored 104 last year.
The extra 4 is for participating optional experiments

ROFL, I guess thats like in higher comp where you can score up to 22/20 in each assignment

 

[sunny]

Originally posted by enak
ROFL, I guess thats like in higher comp where you can score up to 22/20 in each assignment

Except with the difference that the extra 2 marks is inproportionate to the work required....

 

[anti]

This is sort of relevant..

To get the University Medal you need to come FIRST in your year AND have a WAM of over 90. Only one person per course per year can win the University Medal. I found this out the other day.