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[Thu Thu Train]

If you pm me your student email I can email them to you I don't feel comfortable uploading them on a public forum (copyright etc)

[alondouek]

Just got informed today that I'll get my name on the paper I'm contributing to as part of my Summer Research Scholarship; pretty good thing to walk away from first year on

[pi]

Just got informed today that I'll get my name on the paper I'm contributing to as part of my Summer Research Scholarship; pretty good thing to walk away from first year on

CONGRATS!

That's amazing

[TrueTears]

Just got informed today that I'll get my name on the paper I'm contributing to as part of my Summer Research Scholarship; pretty good thing to walk away from first year on

Good job

Is it a working paper? Or is it going for publication?

[alondouek]

Good job

Is it a working paper? Or is it going for publication?

Thanks!

Not too sure about what my department wants to do with it, but they like to publish as much as possible. I reckon that it'll be a working paper initially, and it'll be developed into something for submission into a journal. I'll take what I can get haha

[Tragesty]

Last Friday, I was asked to talk to new BusEco Ambassadors at Caulfield about my experience throughout the year at their welcome event. During my talk, I forgot the course director's name (who was present there and sitting in the very front row). Everyone laughed, I died inside.

Oh hey I was there! 

Just got my acceptance letter of my internal transfer into Bachelor of Commerce. Coming from first year Business at Caulfield got 7/8 units credited - however the documents mention nothing regarding GPA. Anyone know if my GPA will disappear or keep as is? Or only take into account the 7 units credited? 

[b^3]

Oh hey I was there! 

Just got my acceptance letter of my internal transfer into Bachelor of Commerce. Coming from first year Business at Caulfield got 7/8 units credited - however the documents mention nothing regarding GPA. Anyone know if my GPA will disappear or keep as is? Or only take into account the 7 units credited? 

The unofficial academic record on Moodel will have your old degree, and the GPA+WAM at the end of that, and then the new degree, with the units that were credited across and their scores, and any units that have advanced standing will contribute credits but not their scores. At the end of the second listed degree and all the units will be the WAM and GPA from the units in the new degree, and those which were credited across, but not from those which were given as advanced standing (e.g. for me, going from aero -> aero/sci, the units that were credited across were the eng units, while eng units that counted as science units were given as advanced standing and so the scores didn't count for the advanced standing units).

[Tragesty]

Alright thanks for that, but confused by the term 'advanced standing' - whats the difference between that and credited units?

[b^3]

Alright thanks for that, but confused by the term 'advanced standing' - whats the difference between that and credited units?

Advanced standing units scores don't count towards your GPA and WAM, but the credit points count towards your total credit points, while the scores and credits for units that are credited across count towards your GPA and WAM. Advanced standing is normally given when one unit has to credit another different unit. For example with my transfer some of my engineering maths and physics units had to now credit science maths and physics units. As the units are being credited across different faculties, they give you 'advanced standing' and the score for that unit doesn't count. e.g. I lost 3 of my top 4 scores in my transfer, but oh well.

I've probably over-complicated this, as for your transfer it'd be the same faculty wouldn't it? So you probably would have just got credits instead of advanced standing (If you'd gotten advanced standing I think you would know about it).

Sorry about that, didn't look specifically at the transferring courses when I first posted. But hope that helps!

[Tragesty]

Oh fair enough, thanks 

Yeah Im simply transferring from B. Business into B. Commerce, both in the same faculty and was unsure if the 7 out of 8 first year units I completed and will have credited would transfer over their WAM/GPA - reading your first explanation leads me to believe my GPA will transfer over into my new course - however I'm still a bit uncertain as to whether the 'new' GPA will take into account the unit that wasn't credited, I assume not - given the single uncredited unit was my lowest mark for the year, would this favourable alter my WAM?

Complicated query I know 

[b^3]

Oh fair enough, thanks 

Yeah Im simply transferring from B. Business into B. Commerce, both in the same faculty and was unsure if the 7 out of 8 first year units I completed and will have credited would transfer over their WAM/GPA - reading your first explanation leads me to believe my GPA will transfer over into my new course - however I'm still a bit uncertain as to whether the 'new' GPA will take into account the unit that wasn't credited, I assume not - given the single uncredited unit was my lowest mark for the year, would this favourable alter my WAM?

Complicated query I know 

Yeah, the unit that's not credited across won't count, so your GPA and WAM will go up as it was your worst unit. For me it was the other way around, the unit that ended up being pointless for me and not counting was my equal best score... and so it went down... But anyways. You get the positive result out of it!

EDIT: Rephrased things.

[Tragesty]

Ah okay, thanks for your help!

[Cappuccinos]

When I transferred, the units I got credit for (credited as electives) contribute to my WAM/GPA, but the marks don't appear in the transcript? E.g
Is that how it's appears for you b^3?

[slothpomba]

Can't comment much on the specifics but just keep in mind thats the "unofficial transcript", so, it might not necessarily reflect what will be seen on the other one.

[Cappuccinos]

Oh yeah, that's true. Hopefully my official one isn't a hot mess

Also congrats on the transfer Tragesty! Also, are you doing the ambassador program or did you just finish it?