WAM or GPA for transfer calculations? (1 Viewer)

[epsilon]

Hi guys. I'm VERY confused right now!!! I am planning to transfer either to USYD (1st choice currently)'s or UNSW's B. Commerce, and so I was wondering how does the uni/UAC calculate my new rank at the end of my first year? I know it's based on 1/2 my UAI and 1/2 of my uni results. But I'm very confused about the uni mark part of it.

Ppl like Grizzly have said that the uni result part is calculated based on one's WAM.

However, ppl like ace have told me that it is actually based on one's GPA, and has nothing to do with the WAM.

Both of them are in B. Commerce UNSW right now.

So which of them is right anyway?

This is weird because if it's really based on GPA only, wouldn't that mean that getting either a mark of 65 or a mark of 74 won't really matter then because both are Credits?

Seriously don't get it...

Help much appreciated in this!

 

[stazi]

Hi guys. I'm VERY confused right now!!! I am planning to transfer either to USYD (1st choice currently)'s or UNSW's B. Commerce, and so I was wondering how does the uni/UAC calculate my new rank at the end of my first year? I know it's based on 1/2 my UAI and 1/2 of my uni results. But I'm very confused about the uni mark part of it.

Ppl like Grizzly have said that the uni result part is calculated based on one's WAM.

However, ppl like ace have told me that it is actually based on one's GPA, and has nothing to do with the WAM.

Both of them are in B. Commerce UNSW right now.

So which of them is right anyway?

This is weird because if it's really based on GPA only, wouldn't that mean that getting either a mark of 65 or a mark of 74 won't really matter then because both are Credits?

Seriously don't get it...

Help much appreciated in this!

I think unsw is WAM
Usyd is GPA

 

[epsilon]

Nope, kinda just confirmed UNSW also uses GPA. Does that mean that unis generally use the GPA and not the WAM? Who came up with this WAM thingy then anyway?

 

[Frigid]

Nope, kinda just confirmed UNSW also uses GPA. Does that mean that unis generally use the GPA and not the WAM? Who came up with this WAM thingy then anyway?

WAM is, in my opinion, a fairer weighting system, because it takes into account differences between marks, whereas grades do not.

 

[epsilon]

Yeah, I agree, but they don't use WAM, do they?