Has anyone received their Uni Results yet?

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Well done, Odette Now my results look crap in comparison

MATH2406    Math Methods 2 Honours    HD    87
MATH2322    Algebra 1 Honours    HD    88
MATH3228    Complex Analysis Honours    HD    89
MATH3325    Analysis 3 Honours    HD    95

Just missed out on a 90 average, sigh...

A 95 in analysis 3?!? I'm pretty sure that's the maths course that my friends have been calling 'anal rape the higher higher'.
They were also joking that if I played the 'I'm a PhB student, please let me into this course!' card with Analysis 3 I might actually be let in, even without the prerequisites and the prerequisites to the prerequisites, but I doubt it. Those three letters only go so far.

Hmmm, who are your friends? I know Rupert from Burgmann did Analysis 3. Or are these 1st or 2nd years? Actually I don't know any 2nd year maths students from Burgmann at all...

Yeah Analysis 1 is known to scare off every 2nd year maths student, let alone Analysis 3. Apparently even PhB students only get Cs and Ds in Analysis 3... But it was a different lecturer this year and though it was hard I actually liked it so worked pretty hard for it, as it was my favourite subject.

How about you, did you get your average this semester?

No. I was just under though, my average was about 78 (slightly higher than last semester!). I'm not too worried though because I got a HD in my Advanced Studies course, and I was doing two later year courses, one of which was anthropology which I never studied before.

My friends include people who haven't done analysis 3 (physics/engineering person) and a first year who might do it in 3rd year. He's an applied mathematician

Applied maths, you say. A foreign concept to me...

78 is excellent for PhB Arts, especially if you're doing later year courses. Congrats

Hmmmm not sure how my PhB friends from college did. I know my neighbour got a 79 average with one subject score still to be released. Worried a bit about one of my friends who does physics, he only got 51% in the mid-semester for one of his subjects...

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How strict are they with the average thing? Last semester I got a letter which basically said 'you didn't get the average, but well done anyway!' and I know one person actually ended up failing first year pols (their average ended up being 67 or something). Is it just there to make sure students are doing their best or is it there to actually act as a basis for kicking people out? Actually, has anyone ever been kicked out of PhB (either Arts or Science)?

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I know a girl at my college who got kicked out of PhB Science last year, at the end of her first year (she's in Arts/Science now). But she was kinda asking for it, considering she was no way near the average both semesters (credit average both times). She failed maths both semesters, despite taking supps for both of the them (she got 48% on the supp for MATH1115... ouch).

One of my good friends got a mid-credit average in his first semester of PhB and a 79 for the next two semesters, and he's been fine with it. And my PhB Arts neighbour has only gotten her average once, but the rest have been close enough (78+, I think) to get away with it.

They're very reluctant to kick people out after their first year, but if you do badly (and I mean less than 75 both semesters) then you'll probably get kicked out.

Mind you, if you don't graduate with first-class honours, then you graduate with a BA or BSc instead of a PhB - PhB depends upon you getting first-class honours. It's a pretty weird scaling system they use to determine which class honours you get, based predominantly on your honours year, and third year subjects. I think. Not sure exactly.