Curious About Uai And Subjects (1 Viewer)

[cheeseburgers]

Hi everyone,

I've been wondering about my choice of subjects in regards to the success of my UAI.

I'm in year 12 for 2009

my subjects are

-Business Studies
-Hospitality
-ADV English
-GEN Maths
-Biology.

they aren't high scaling but it is a mix.

will any of these subjects bring me down?
which subjects should i work extra hard on? (i know i should on all)
my grade and subject ranks are currently above average in school.

I'm aiming for a UAI of at least 85?

what do you think?

thanks in advance!

 

[runnable]

Its a mix of... low scaling subjects (adv eng is not that low but not high either) but fear not, it will not affect your UAI if you do well in them.

 

[cheeseburgers]

oh no...

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what should i be aiming for in terms of the HSC mark to get the results i want?
do they all have to be 85+ ?

 

[decoil]

oh no...

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what should i be aiming for in terms of the HSC mark to get the results i want?
do they all have to be 85+ ?

The best idea to answer that question would be to check out http://www.boredofstudies.org/sam/

At a guess, to get 85, yes you would need pretty high marks. But the difference with that is - it is much easier to get those high marks in those classes.

 

[cheeseburgers]

yeah,

i did try SAM
but then i read in other places that the scaling changes every year.
so the UAI estimates are not really valid ):

SAM is still on 2005.

the school told us to choose the subjects you enjoy doing and dont worry about the scaling.
so i tried to choose the ones i thought would be easiest and useful.

now i AM worried- because looking at the other threads and stuff i can see that people chose harder subjects and even though they dont get high marks- the scaling can give them a decent UAI.

 

[conics2008]

farkin.. your doing all random subjects eg notthin is related to one another.

wtf were you thinking when you chose bio with hospt and business.

 

[cheeseburgers]

i want to pursue a career in the bio field.
but i guess i should also have done chemistry as well. (i didn't because that would just drag me down for sure)

hospitality was suggested by my careers advisor
i wanted to do economics instead of that. but she thought hospitality was better for my learning.

and business- well it was out of the blue. i just needed to fill in my units and i thought that was a decent subject.- i wasn't wrong. it's quite fun.


does it really matter if they aren't related?