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Title: GPA
Post by: scrubs-rocks on April 14, 2009, 03:04:27 pm

hey, i am currently at the univesity of melbourne . I want to apply interstate - like say UNSW or WA because i am moving there. I have heard to get into UNSW i need to maintain a high GPA like it says 5.5 from a scale of (0-7), does anyone know what this means?

I am engineering student by the way.

Title: Re: GPA
Post by: humph on April 14, 2009, 03:12:20 pm

Probably about a 65-70 average or so, but I can never remember the exact conversion. Just search around for a conversion. Australian unis have something like 80+ = 7.0, 75-80 = 6.5, 70-75 = 6.0, and so on.

Title: Re: GPA
Post by: scrubs-rocks on April 14, 2009, 03:14:11 pm

thanks a lot.

Title: Re: GPA
Post by: scrubs-rocks on April 14, 2009, 03:15:11 pm

do you know if this is a fairly hard score to get, like 70%? Doesnt sound much, but then again, uni work is pretty hard.

Title: Re: GPA
Post by: Eriny on April 14, 2009, 05:19:35 pm

It's not insanely difficult. If you put in the work, you should get it.

Title: Re: GPA
Post by: Fyrefly on April 15, 2009, 02:14:19 pm

Different universities use completely different systems 4 calculating GPA.
For instance, Monash operates with a GPA of 0-4, instead of 0-7.

Ppl will look @ my GPA on my transcript and think I absolutely suck, when in reality I'm not *that* bad XD XD

As 4 GPA in general, wikipedia tells all:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPA_in_Australia

On the 0 - 7 scale, for 5.5 u'd want 2 b getting in the range of High Credits, Low Distinctions.
This is definitely do-able :)