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vexx:

--- Quote from: m@tty on June 23, 2010, 07:14:08 pm ---Yes, it says that. But at Monash I have been told it was based on your actual mark rather than the ranking as it said in the information.

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yeah that's how it is done at monash, and what i heard at melbourne was different... not sure how they can do that >.>

happyhappyland:

--- Quote from: schmalex on June 23, 2010, 06:29:50 pm ---It's pretty fucking self-explanatory. If 80% of people enrolled in that subject do worse than you, you will get an increment of 5.5. If 60% of people do worse than you, you will get an increment of 5.0. If fewer than that do worse than you, your increment is 4.0, regardless of your actual mark. Did you actually read it?

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Well you obviously dont know anything about university.

My course is split into three kinds of assessments

70% Exam
20% assignments
10% tutorial work.

Say if u get 50% in exam 100% in assignment and 100% in tutorial. it means your percentage is

65%. So is that 65% equivalent to the 60percentile?

And if it isnt, then what % do i need to get that 60%th percentile.

Thats my question... its not as simple as it sounds. your contribution isnt very helpful at all

shinny:
Well it is as simple as it sounds - percentiles are percentiles - but whether they meant percentiles is a different story. Going by percentiles is very unlike universities as far as I know. If this is the case, I don't know how Monash and UoM could have different systems. Depending on the difficulty of the exams,  those attending one of the unis would have an advantage over the other. As for what you need to get a certain percentile, no one would know. It depends on how everyone else goes on the assessments this year. If you're asking for a ballpark figure, then maybe someone would know roughly from previous experience but there's no accurate way to say really.

EDIT: And wait, so what exactly is it that you don't get? You know how to calculate your own raw overall mark, so they'd just rank that and get a percentile. You say it's not as simple as that but then you do the calculations and show us it is. I'm confused =/

happyhappyland:

--- Quote from: shinny on June 23, 2010, 09:16:14 pm ---Well it is as simple as it sounds - percentiles are percentiles - but whether they meant percentiles is a different story. Going by percentiles is very unlike universities as far as I know. If this is the case, I don't know how Monash and UoM could have different systems. Depending on the difficulty of the exams,  those attending one of the unis would have an advantage over the other. As for what you need to get a certain percentile, no one would know. It depends on how everyone else goes on the assessments this year. If you're asking for a ballpark figure, then maybe someone would know roughly from previous experience but there's no accurate way to say really.

EDIT: And wait, so what exactly is it that you don't get? You know how to calculate your own raw overall mark, so they'd just rank that and get a percentile. You say it's not as simple as that but then you do the calculations and show us it is. I'm confused =/

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basically people in my class is glorifying about how all they need is 60% to get the 5.0 increment. 60% means the "raw overall mark". but i dont think its that easy... so i do think its the percentile ranking

chansthename:
I though at monash it was the overall raw mark (ie HD average for 5.5)

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