Originally posted by Jesh
I am asking, if a person goes to james ruse, then is that person advantaged over another person? Assuming both persons got same marks and went to diff skools.. Does the school have any role in determining UAI?
Simplistic answer: yes. So work hard.
Complicated answer:
You need to understand the assessment process.
1. In the course of the year, your school assesses you and ranks the candidature in every subject. The discussion (
http://x300-3-bne.servers.net.au/~a....php?s=&threadid=3701&perpage=40&pagenumber=2) with Laz is worth referring to.
2. When all the people doing one subject at your school sit a paper, you can think of them as a team winning a pool of marks.
3. These marks are divided up based on assessment rankings to produce assessment marks.
Your HSC mark is produced using your HSC exam mark and your assessment mark.
Steps 2 and 3 are where having a good "team", or a strong school, can help you out. But be careful not to say that having a better team is
always an advantage. The only situation in which you benefit is if your mark in the HSC exam is below your moderated assessment mark, leading to a higher HSC mark in that subject and eventually a higher UAI. Clearly, the mark assigned to your rank will be better the better your school does.
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Ok, my friend already finished HSC with 98.98..
He says that the school gives a mark out of 40.. Whats that exactly? and does it apply to all schools?
The mark out of 40 is given for each student apparently...
There is no such UAI as 98.98 - the UAI is in increments of 0.05.
Going back to step 1 above, the school ranks people in each subject and also assigns some sort of mark to each student for statistical purposes such as calculatinng standard deviations. Looked at this way, it doesn't really matter what the raw number is - it's a question of proportionality.