GPA questions regarding transfers.

Yian · Rookie Joined: 28 Nov 2009 Posts: 3 Location: Sydney

Hi people, Two really quick questions on GPA calculation. (that I cannot find answers to via search).

Any comments would really be appreciated.

1) My degree is three years. However due to deferment (due to illness) and internal transfer between majors I will be enrolled at University for a total of four years.

Question: Can I still count all of these subjects in my GAMSAT GPA calculation for the last ‘three years’; even though it was four years of Uni?
(Note: I still have one more year to go).

2) One of my subjects is NC (not completed) and was not given a mark. (Silly me did not withdraw without failure at the time). I suspect this is the equivalent of a fail. However, upon my transfer of credits between majors this subject is not used to calculate my overall WAM, as it is not relevant to my degree. (At UNSW we do not use a GPA but a WAM overall mark). This NC result is present on my academic transcript, but is not contributing to the WAM of my new major.

Question: Even though I was not given a mark, and this subject is not relevent to my new major: do I need to include this in my calculations for a GPA?

Thanks in advance. Goodluck everybody!

[PS:My overall WAM currently sits at about 69.8. (Average of all my marks) And have not failed anything].

Yian · Rookie Joined: 28 Nov 2009 Posts: 3 Location: Sydney

I have read the admissions guide, and it is not exactly clear on the nature of transfers/defering years. Perhaps it is obvious but I just want to confirm.

For example the guide states:

lukewphysio · Rookie Joined: 11 Jul 2009 Posts: 8

The guide states anything that is non graded is not recorded, anything that is.. subject by subject you use the table to convert your mark into a global mark, and you record that. And it states your last 3 years full time, so if you do 1 year over 2 years, its still counted as 1 year.
Hope this helps