FinFin-3rdYearUni

  • 7 hours ago
  • Joined Feb 19, 2023
  • In Some Flunkies' Journey through University

    Hey @FinFin-3rdYearUni!

    Great to see you doing well with your uni and break. Just a word of advice, I would start saving up for placement now. Not being able to work during placement is quite expensive (if the placement is long and lengthy). I've gone on many placements since 1st year 2nd sem and now moving on to 3rd year with 3 more placements to boot. I've always made sure to hussle during the summer.

    All the best for your casper marks!

    beep boop

    • In Some Flunkies' Journey through University

      hi @FinFin-3rdYearUni, i had a few questions about university if you could be able to answer please?

      • do universities use textbooks + if they do, where are these purchased from?
      • what does a typical lecture look like?
      • how do you structure your notes (would it be similar to high school)

      thank you in advance… uni is playing on my mind a lot now T-T

      • In How does the ATAR work?

        Dr. Jess 😉

        Yeah so how it works is like this:

        1. You finish your ATAR subjects
        2. Then QTAC scales your raw scores (calculated by QCAA) into Scaled Scores (which are calculated by QTAC)
        3. QTAC takes your best 5 subjects
        4. They then calculate an aggregate score which is essentially the scaled scores of the best 5 subjects added up
        5. Then they all convert your aggregate score to the ATAR (this is the conversion that most ATAR calculators don't have access to and as @FinFin-3rdYearUni mentioned they change slightly every year so they have to roughly estimate this conversion based on aggregate scores they already have and the associated ATARs).

        Also, we have this exclusive community that we just set up recently and its specifically for Queensland students. You can ask as many questions as you need and it has a ton of resources. We're doing a holiday workshops for the core subjects starting in December with worksheets and questions given afterwards. No stress to join haha but its definitely worth joining especially if you're in year 12: https://www.skool.com/qcaa-atar-saver-community/

        Good luck with year 12!