Five pirates have 100 gold coins. they have to divide up the loot. in order of seniority (suppose pirate 5 is most senior, pirate 1 is least senior), the most senior pirate proposes a distribution of the loot. they vote and if at least 50% accept the proposal, the loot is divided as proposed...
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You got it wrong again. SDD scaling sucks because too many bludgers (who are shit at their other subjects) take it as a way to play "Slime-ball-tennis" and other rubbish like that during school hours.
I'd love to see unsw put out some invites for scholarships. But that's a different thing altogether...
I got a UNSW 10.30am invite and a 2pm Sydney one.
Bingo.
While we're making jokes about it, fricking SOCIETY & CULTURE actually scaled better.
Percentiles aren't to scale, but as you can see, you'd have to do pretty badly at 4U and very well at SDD to have SDD count over maths.
Having said that, though, SDD can be used as...
I got a letter today, $5000 a year for any course.
Much nicer than those stingy arseholes at UNSW.
If I wanted to do law and was deciding between the two unis, this would definitely have me enrolling at USyd.
#1 Tip for SDD class of '04
Here it is:
Drop Software.
I just got my UAC letter today expecting to see that my 96 (Top 10 in the state) for SDD was counted towards my UAI. It wasn't.
My 4U mark of 91 (~top 30% of the state) was actually counted instead...and if you look at the scaling...