Draft of a Thesis detailing the outlines of a new marking procedure to determine end marks for Year 12 students. This Framework will be named University Scope Potential Index (USPI)

Due to the Higher School Certificate’s flaw that people who specialise in certain subjects towards a similar-minded goal in University get nowhere if they do not contain, a sometimes irrelevant, subject which is scaled up or down, I have came to this, a thesis I think should be implemented which would make specialisation far more practical, and let those who deserve entry to university courses, be able to without taking an irrelevant class.

The way marks are currently totalled are such: The end results from assessments and exams are totalled individually, scaling might happen in subjects such as three-unit mathematics or physics, then finally they are merged together into a University Admission Index (UAI).

This leads to people not good in algebra or advanced mathematics being allowed into an Arts degree which just requires principal mathematics skills. I feel that the UAI should be divided into at least six categories and giving individual scores for these categories.

The way this works, is that for each category there is a core subject which is compulsory/heavily influences the end results. Students should be made aware of these categories as they enter year eleven which should help them pick subjects which will help them get into their preferred course, if wanted.

These core subjects make a critical weight to the final score but the marks themselves do not rely on them, unless they fail the subject at hand. However, the higher the standard of the subject, the better the mark/weight the core subject can hold.

A person who does Advanced English gets a higher chance of the score helping his final score then say, a person who does Standard English. And the same for someone who does four-unit mathematics compared to someone who did General mathematics.

NOTE: This is only a draft, I haven’t had time to work on it past the inital draft and recap. While this system is far more complex, it would show a student’s potential far more then the UAI system currently in place. If anyone has any questions or wish to work on this some more, just shoot me off an email fuyutski AT gmail DOT com.