Getting 70-80's in Uni

[misskaraleah]

How difficult is it to gain 70's abd 80's for your course work throughout Uni? I was speaking to my friend, who is currently studying Arts at Melbourne Uni and she claims it rather difficult to get 75+.

Because i was speaking to a selection officer for my desired course which i missed the ENTER for, and he said getting between 70 and 80 in a general Media Studies/ Media Communication course, and do really well in your first year.

Help, i dont understand :tickedoff:

[humph]

It's pretty hard to compare uni marks to school marks, and uni marks vary greatly from course to course - at my uni, for example, it's much easier in some sense to get an 80 for a science subject than a law subject, because the law subjects are marked according to a bell-curve that only allows 2-5% of students to get 80+, whereas science subjects are not.
In general, however, I'd say getting 70+ is quite doable for an intelligent student, but certainly not easy. If you got As in that subject at school, then if you put in the required amount of work, you ought to be able to get 70+ in that subject at uni. If you got A+s, then likewise 80+. But this estimate by no means is particularly accurate; I've had friends who "only" got 89 for their ENTER but average well over 80 at uni, and similarly friends who got 99 but get low 60s (in law, admittedly).
So it definitely won't be easy and you'll very much have to be focussed on making sure that you get your desired marks, but it's certainly doable.

[Ken]

my fren that has completed 1st year engineering at melb uni says that u will be laughing to get into the 70s.

[xox.happy1.xox]

my fren that has completed 1st year engineering at melb uni says that u will be laughing to get into the 70s.

What do you mean by this? That one cannot achieve 70's at uni? Different subjects call for different types of marks, and anyone can achieve anything if they put their mind to it... (I think I misunderstood what you were trying to say, but still, anyone can do anything! )

[Ken]

My fren is implying that it's quite hard to get into the 70's. (well for engineering anyway)

[xox.happy1.xox]

I'm pretty sure the course misskaraleah is going to do is Media Studies at La Trobe...

[humph]

My fren is implying that it's quite hard to get into the 70's. (well for engineering anyway)

Lolz, not really. Ask Coblin...

[costargh]

Are University policies available on their marking schemes? (eg. for Monash?)

And are there differnt marking policies for each policy (ike humph explained for ANU)

[gemgem49]

What i want to know is what to expect on the first day/week of uni. Assignments already?

[hard]

My fren is implying that it's quite hard to get into the 70's. (well for engineering anyway)

Lolz, not really. Ask Coblin...

not the best of person to ask imo. His view oh how "easy" or "hard" engineering is is quite tainted due to his incredible talent in math/science subjects.
But my mate also says it's very difficult to get 70+ in engineering and he goes to melb uni (civil, 4th year). He avg's 50-60 LOL.

[humph]

What i want to know is what to expect on the first day/week of uni. Assignments already?

God no. It's usually just revising stuff you've learnt at high school (as in they cover everything you did in yr12 in a week or two). First assignment will probably be week 3 at the earliest, if the subject you're doing has assignments as part of its assessment.

[humph]

My fren is implying that it's quite hard to get into the 70's. (well for engineering anyway)

Lolz, not really. Ask Coblin...

not the best of person to ask imo. His view oh how "easy" or "hard" engineering is is quite tainted due to his incredible talent in math/science subjects.
But my mate also says it's very difficult to get 70+ in engineering and he goes to melb uni (civil, 4th year). He avg's 50-60 LOL.

To be honest I certainly don't think it's impossible. My engineering friends all average around mid-60s or so, but then again, they don't put in much effort towards their eng subjects. Of course, it may be quite different at UoM, but certainly for the most part eng shouldn't be more difficult than, say, physics.

[Odette.]

What i want to know is what to expect on the first day/week of uni. Assignments already?

God no. It's usually just revising stuff you've learnt at high school (as in they cover everything you did in yr12 in a week or two). First assignment will probably be week 3 at the earliest, if the subject you're doing has assignments as part of its assessment.

Seeing that she's going to be studying media, most of her coursework will be assignments, well that's what my uncle said, and he's now completing his Masters in Media. Yeah it's highly unlikely that you'll get your assignments early, although I remember getting my first assignment on the first day of uni! it was due in the second week... but it was sooooooooooooooooo easy (At ACU)Also I thought I'd add, that at some universities (well at least at VU) you aren't exactly told when you have assignments, it's upto you to keep track of assignments (found in subject guides)...  

As for whether or not it's hard for you to get 70-80s at uni... well as others have mentioned, it would depend on the subjects that you complete... as for me 95+ was rather easy for me to achieve(Whether it was at ACU or VU)... maybe I'm just completing easy subjects lol I don't know.

[lacoste]

God no. It's usually just revising stuff you've learnt at high school (as in they cover everything you did in yr12 in a week or two).

do they cover the concepts or give notes with formulas etc.
isnt it impossible to cover year 12 in only two weeks?

[costargh]

Is there anyway to start your subjects now? (ie. find out the text books for them, or find out the bloody assignments or something. I just wanna fucken start something!)