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Originally posted by Save My Life
Thankyou for the heads up! That helped clear a lot of stress.
I need an ATAR of 87.30 to get into Global Business at McQuarie university. I just want to get a good start on every thing so I am not stressed the hell out and since I am planning on doing a gap year in 2016, getting a good ATAR and enrolling into a course can get me prepared.
How does a bridging course work exactly?
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I'm not 100% sure but with hers I'm pretty sure she had to do her first semester off-campus at like a TAFE or a private college type place. Instead of each subject having a 2 hour lecture and a 1 hour tutorial, each subject was a 3 hour small class (with 2 five minute breaks and one 15 minute break). Each uni has a different bridging course system with names like "UPass" or "Pathways." Basically with hers, I think once she passed all the first year subjects, she could transfer into Macquarie Uni for her 2nd and 3rd year. But, if she got a credit average (an average of at least 65% in all 4 of the subjects she did in semester 1 off-campus) then she could transfer into Macq in semester 2 of her first year, and that's what she did.
Speak to you guidance councillor about what to do if you don't get the mark. If you're confident you will, then you will. It's not as hard/big as people make it out to be. And it's actually so much easier to just go to another Uni and then transfer into the course you want to do after semester 1 of your first year. I think the only reason she did a bridging course was because her ATAR was so bad that she didn't get into any Uni for that degree or Macquarie wouldn't accept the credit points from the crappier Unis because their courses weren't as good. Something like that.
it always came fairly easy to me so I managed to wing most of it and pass with flying colours, while my sister studied night and day 
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