Year 12 Results Conversion (1 Viewer)

[RyBo]

Hi everyone, 'smee again.
More QLD related issues (sorry).

Each state has its own version of year 12 results which are all convertible/comparible.
- Vic uses the ENTER
- NSW uses the UAI
- SA, TAS, WA use the TER
Queensland, just be be annoying, uses the OP - (a integer from 1 to 25, 1 beign the top).
The Problem: Enter/Ter/UAI have decimal places, OP doesen't.

This is a conversion table from SATAC:
http://www.satac.edu.au/uniweb/sect02/transferindex.asp?NavBar=Section2

TER/ENTER/UAI ___________ OverallPosition

99.95 _______________________ 1
99.50 _______________________ 1
99.00 _______________________ 1
98.50 _______________________ 2
98.00 _______________________ 2

My Question:
In Victoria, is my OP 1 equiv. to a ENTER of 99.95 or 99.00???

In applying to med, I assume a difference of .95 in UAI/ENTER/TER does matter?

Thanks in advance,
RyBo.

 

[inasero]

good question- yes it does matter...but as you know in queensland, as with any other state the final mark (or in your case a band) is the sum total of your performance in individual subjects...so you will find that not all OP1's are the same...for example, say you're applying to a theoretical course X in GU, which just so happens to be highly competitive. How can they accept all the OP1's that apply? They will ask Queensland's equivalent of the Board of Studies for your individual aggregate...same deal with entry into Medicine.

In short what I'm saying is...not all OP1's are the same. Student's don't know their relative positions but the admissions boards do for the purposes of cutoffs.

 

[RyBo]

thanks heaps. Just for interest, does a difference in UAI/ENTER/TER of .95 (between 99 and 99.95) really matter in med, is it that competitive? or at that level do UMAT and interview performance count more?

 

[Lexicographer]

It depends on which school. If Newcastle or Adelaide, where you need only achieve the threshold, then no. If UNSW, UniMelb etc where results are combined to form an overall selection schedule, then every point of discrimination matters. This means that the difference between xx.95 and xx.90 can mean a place or no place.

 

[+Po1ntDeXt3r+]

umm in adel u need a min: OP3

to qualify

 

[inasero]

i agree wholeheartedly with what lexicographer said