YBK said:
wow, people should stop complaining, you make yourselves sound like whining idiots. What's so great about the UAI system anyway? How is someone who did subjects such as art, history or geography and managed to scrape a UAI of 93 more worthy than someone who did 4u maths and only managed an 89 UAI to study commerce? You do realise there is so much rote learning in the HSC and for problem solving (a huge aspect of commerce) the 4U maths course is one of the only HSC subjects that aids in problem solving and distinguishes those who rote learn to those who think.
You do realise that both the 93UAI and 89UAI kents should both not be doing comm at unsw if the uni had been as strict with their cut offs as usyd?
And to score 93 doing va, history and geography is definitely much more difficult than scoring 89 with 4u maths (assuming your abilities were equal for all these subjects). 4U maths students have crazy ass scaling but what the cunt, you really scored 91uai with 4u maths?
It's true many humanities subjectscan be rote learnt but if you wanted to score a high band 5/band 6 you'd need to clearly understand how different pieces of information interact thus using your analytical abilities. 4U maths is problem solving but as long as you do your homework each day you can do well, as the formulae are all there. Commerce has just as much to do with humanities subjects, go figure.
Wow guybegays should stop cumstaining, they make themselves sound like whining idiots.
shinji said:
i think this last years 3u exam also calls for this? haha.
as it was different from previous exams.
and i appluad for unsw for being non-conformists and doin stuff their own way! =]
Stop trying to find ways to reinforce the idea that you 'deserve' the place at unsw. UNSW has decided to take people up to 10 uai points lower, it had nothing to do with your personal situation or merit.
Bookie said:
i actually wrote a blog. but decided posting it there because of all the racial, sexual, societal, stupid people vilification that would be associated with it and the resulting ramifications.
so as an aside, heres what would have been on my blog [and hence the boredofstudies front page]
Bravo, seriously bravo.
MoonlightSonata said:
The university is most qualified to select people whom they think will be most fitting to their courses and they should have every right to do so. So in my opinion it is a much more sensible system for "next best" candidates.
It's like all those people who do 4U maths, Chemistry, Physics, Biology, etc and go and do law. They often are not suited to the course at all, are not interested in it, and those with lower UAIs who are more suited, more passionate or more set on pursuing a career in law miss out.
stazi said:
Not necessarily. English Advanced tests written English skills. There are many great businessmen (or women) of our time who may not have the best written ability. However, they have fantastic verbal skills. Communication in business relies more on being able to verbally communicate properly. Whether or not someone can critique a Shakespearean tragedy wouldn't be something that I, as an employer, look for in an employee
I can communicate verbally well but written expression is my forte. Argh commlol :/
YBK said:
Some people REALLY need to learn how to read.
Some people REALLY need to suck less wang.
§eraphim said:
Prediction: More shit actuaries to come out of UNSW.
Yeah like whybegay.
ybk said:
So what if you are not told of the alternate way of getting into the course! Besides, if you insisted to do commerce, then you must have a liking for maths at least. If you did not chose to do maths in year 11 and 12, it's your fault and I think even if you get a 99.95 uai, you still should not be accepted into accounting. Maths is the basis for everything. If you chose not to do maths, then you are clearly an arts person and shouldn't even consider a career related to maths. It just does not make sense.
I have no idea how your logic allows you to insist that UNSW is wrong in what it did, maybe the uni is just trying to screen out stubborn people like you.
No not everyone who does commerce has to like or be good at maths. Stazi has already posted in this thread about his successes and he never did senior high maths.
Black and white thinking mate. If you don't do maths that doesn't automatically qualify you as an arts student. Comm majors such as marketing, IB, management, political econ et al (i'm sure stas covered this) are very humanities-orientated unlike your well-actuary-you-must-be-homofag major.
You don't make sense. You won't make any cents /lol. You're actually very narrow-minded in how you look at comm and you are peering at the discipline through a first year's pin hole view.
Gain some experience in uni comm first and learn that sec c and sweet as pi is not everything.
