Claire Pech – Careers Advisor

Sydney University News

Exciting news for anyone who is trying to get into Sydney University! They have just decided (but not yet launched it publicly) that they will give out bonus points for students who achieve high scores (Band 5 or 6), in English Advanced, Advanced Mathematics, and Extension 1 and 2 in both of these subjects. More details can be found here

Students have been asking me for years why Sydney University do not give out Adjustment Factors (bonus points) for their courses and so this will come as great news! Certain courses are not included in the lists, such as Law, Medicine and of course the Dalyell Scholars programs, and the B.Engineering courses have a limited amount of points (only 1 or 2 for B. Engineering). But otherwise, there are great benefits to be gained by accessing this program. The points are awarded automatically, not on to the students’ ATAR, but to their selection rank, which will gain them access to more courses. I gave a talk about this scheme on Tuesday to explain how it will work.

UAC News

This week I also spoke to Year 12 about UAC and the next section of administration in terms of student applications, how to manage their preferences, what to put in, and how to know when to move preferences around. The following slides were of most importance:

For the full presentation please click here.