[UoM] 2018 Semester 1 Results Thread

[Alter]

Once it's adjusted the WAM I'm pretty sure it can't change.

This is not true. However, it is quite rare to see the marks change after they've been released.

[Rumena]

Hi everyone,
For a 25 point subject, how would our wam change? For example if I did 3 subjects:
12.5 points — 75%
12.5 points — 83%
25 points — 80%
And my previous wam was 77, how would I calculate my new wam?

[aw090]

It would be weighted twice as heavy as a normal 12.5 credit subject. So your WAM would be (75+83+80+80)/4 = 79.5%

[WTFBBQCheesecake]

Chemistry for Biosciences/Biomedicine is up!

[mtDNA]

Does anyone know what the ‘ver’ means on the results page?

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Principles of Finance and introductory Microeco results are out! THESE RESULTS ARE SO WEIRDDD
I assume these scores are scaled, because getting 99 while dropping a midsem mark, losing assignment marks and leaving parts of questions blank on the final is otherwise impossible....

edit1: Either way, not complaining! Just happy I broke H1 since this semester has honestly been a 'disaster'
edit2: Everyone doing Finance was given 15 extra marks in the exam so I guess after this adjustment I got over 100% for the Final exam.

[lzxnl]

This is not true. However, it is quite rare to see the marks change after they've been released.

I've had two subjects change after release LOL

[notes3075]

edit2: Everyone doing Finance was given 15 extra marks in the exam so I guess after this adjustment I got over 100% for the Final exam.

Wow no way...I did PoF in sem 1 last year, and Asjeet gave us 6 extra exam marks (there was a printing exclusion with the very last question, which was worth 8 marks, and the edit was announced by speakerphone with 15 min left). I've also heard that in sem 2 last year, Howard Chan gave students 10 extra exam marks (he just made the subject damn harder).

Seems like the exam must have been quite difficult this sem...?

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Wow no way...I did PoF in sem 1 last year, and Asjeet gave us 6 extra exam marks (there was a printing exclusion with the very last question, which was worth 8 marks, and the edit was announced by speakerphone with 15 min left). I've also heard that in sem 2 last year, Howard Chan gave students 10 extra exam marks (he just made the subject damn harder).

Seems like the exam must have been quite difficult this sem...?

Not really. I found the exam  even easier than Micro and I finished with half an hour to go. The multichoice was a real killer I think since probably most of them gave you 4 statements and asked which ones were correct or wrong, and some of the statements given were tricky (but reasonable), so you would get wrong the entire question if you knew whether 3/4 of the statements were true/false but didn't understand one of the statements.

The final question probably also threw people off since you had to identify errors in someone's NPV calculation, but wrong errors apparently would make you LOSE marks, and that was worth 16 marks. I think the only question I had real trouble with was the 'Frontier Curve' question where you just had to label its elements on the diagram, but I didn't study that slide since I didn't expect this to be on the exam.

EDIT: Overall, I do think the extra 15 marks was excessive (maybe weak cohort?) but I'm not complaining, it's the only reason why my WAM is H1!

[notes3075]

Not really. I found the exam  even easier than Micro and I finished with half an hour to go. The multichoice was a real killer I think since probably most of them gave you 4 statements and asked which ones were correct or wrong, and some of the statements given were tricky (but reasonable), so you would get wrong the entire question if you knew whether 3/4 of the statements were true/false but didn't understand one of the statements.

The final question probably also threw people off since you had to identify errors in someone's NPV calculation, but wrong errors apparently would make you LOSE marks, and that was worth 16 marks. I think the only question I had real trouble with was the 'Frontier Curve' question where you just had to label its elements on the diagram, but I didn't study that slide since I didn't expect this to be on the exam.

EDIT: Overall, I do think the extra 15 marks was excessive (maybe weak cohort?) but I'm not complaining, it's the only reason why my WAM is H1!

Nice - I finished mine with around half an hour to go as well (I spent a fair amount of time on the last question of my paper).

Same, I found PoF way easier than micro. Now looking back, I have no idea how I managed to be so lost in drawing simple supply/demand diagrams LOL (somehow I scraped H1 in intro micro tho). Heads up - 2nd-year micro is really hard, and it's legit almost all maths. 2nd-year finance - FNCE20005 CFDM - is also much harder, with way dodgier MCQs (i.e. D = more than one of the above is correct, E = none of the above). I think every subject in 2nd-year is twice as hard as their 1st-year prereqs...Econometrics 1 is probably at least 3x harder than QM1 btw (and don't get me started on comparing BLAW10001 PBL with BLAW20001 Corp Law).

Ahhh the frontier curve...10-mark question right? Yeah we were also required to do the same thing as you guys. I actually asked my friend to open the CAPM lecture slides on his phone, and checked the diagram 15 minutes before the exam started...worked a wonder ahaha

LOOOL then again, unimelb did lower the ATAR cutoff for commerce to 93 eek...PoF also pushed my WAM way up haha

[memyyy]

Principles of Finance and introductory Microeco results are out! THESE RESULTS ARE SO WEIRDDD
I assume these scores are scaled, because getting 99 while dropping a midsem mark, losing assignment marks and leaving parts of questions blank on the final is otherwise impossible....

edit1: Either way, not complaining! Just happy I broke H1 since this semester has honestly been a 'disaster'
edit2: Everyone doing Finance was given 15 extra marks in the exam so I guess after this adjustment I got over 100% for the Final exam.

Thank god for the 15 marks scaling, wouldn't have scored an H1 otherwise XD

[notes3075]

Hey yall (mainly for second-year students):

1. Are your results for second-year sem 1 worse, equal, or better than your first-year sem 1 and sem 2 results? This semester is my worst semester, albeit by less than 2 WAM points - but then again, I guess everything in 2nd-year is much harder than in 1st-year...(try comparing QM1 to Econometrics 1 lol)

2. Anyone get H1 in Corp Law BLAW20001? My worst subject by far, scraped an H2B, which suggests that I lost marks everywhere. Not to mention that for the 1,500-word 15% assignment, only 4% of the 1,000+ students achieved H1.

3. Any 2nd-year subjects get scaled, or is everything "raw" now? It seems that it's usually the 1st-year subjects that get the benefits of scaling (with ECON10003 Intro Macro being an exception - assigned to a bell curve, and scaled down). And I'm more sure than not that FNCE20005 CFDM is raw and not scaled sigh...

4. Does Dean's List cutoff for commerce drop slightly for 2nd-year students? For 1st-year, I know 3 from my old school who are on it, and I think the top 3% are located above 87 or so (don't quote me on that, just an educated guess). And because 2nd-year subjects are way harder, maybe it'll drop to 85 or so?

Thanks yall 

[Tbau96]

ECON30018   Economics of the Law                                   84   H1   First Class Honours
ECON30025   Computational Economics and Business   85   H1   First Class Honours
FNCE30002   Corporate Finance                                            91   H1   First Class Honours

Amazed how quickly the results came through. Comp Eco in particular came out two days later after the exam... ridiculous. To those who did Corp Fi, exam results are on the LMS which is handy. Nice way to finish the degree!

[BNard]

Hey yall (mainly for second-year students):

1. Are your results for second-year sem 1 worse, equal, or better than your first-year sem 1 and sem 2 results? This semester is my worst semester, albeit by less than 2 WAM points - but then again, I guess everything in 2nd-year is much harder than in 1st-year...(try comparing QM1 to Econometrics 1 lol)

2. Anyone get H1 in Corp Law BLAW20001? My worst subject by far, scraped an H2B, which suggests that I lost marks everywhere. Not to mention that for the 1,500-word 15% assignment, only 4% of the 1,000+ students achieved H1.

3. Any 2nd-year subjects get scaled, or is everything "raw" now? It seems that it's usually the 1st-year subjects that get the benefits of scaling (with ECON10003 Intro Macro being an exception - assigned to a bell curve, and scaled down). And I'm more sure than not that FNCE20005 CFDM is raw and not scaled sigh...

4. Does Dean's List cutoff for commerce drop slightly for 2nd-year students? For 1st-year, I know 3 from my old school who are on it, and I think the top 3% are located above 87 or so (don't quote me on that, just an educated guess). And because 2nd-year subjects are way harder, maybe it'll drop to 85 or so?

Thanks yall 

This semester was my worst so far - first time I’ve gone as low as a H3, although my wam actually improved. Annoyingly, I’m more worried about my gpa which has now died a sad death in GENE20001.

[module1]

Is ACCT10001 or MAST10006 out yet?