UNSW General Chat

[Springyboy]

Perhaps, the thing I respect most about UNSW.

We don't have any 8AM starts.

You guys are lucky. I think im probably gonna have my second Wednesday 8am start in a row this semester . Although last semester I had 7.5hrs of classes in 8hrs from 8am-4pm on a Wednesday which was hectic. This sem is much lighter than that - probably only 2 lectures on Wednesday's

[RuiAce]

You guys are lucky. I think im probably gonna have my second Wednesday 8am start in a row this semester . Although last semester I had 7.5hrs of classes in 8hrs from 8am-4pm on a Wednesday which was hectic. This sem is much lighter than that - probably only 2 lectures on Wednesday's

Yeah, I would've just skipped.

[Springyboy]

Yeah, I would've just skipped.

Couldn't 4 out of 5 of the classes were compulsory - and the one that wasn't compulsory I had to attend a couple of weeks to do tests in - so there was no bailout there

[RuiAce]

Couldn't 4 out of 5 of the classes were compulsory - and the one that wasn't compulsory I had to attend a couple of weeks to do tests in - so there was no bailout there

That's disgusting. Assuming you share insanipi's situation of being unable to pick class times, those unis really just make life hard.

[BigAl]

Just a monash student passing by, is there any engineering student here? I have a few questions about engineering at UNSW.

[RuiAce]

Just a monash student passing by, is there any engineering student here? I have a few questions about engineering at UNSW.

Yeah - Jamon does co-op electrical engineering and my computer science degree is offered under the engineering faculty

[Said You Look Like Trudeau]

Hi!
Just wondering about the difference between MATH1131 and MATH1141? I received...mediocre maths and maths extension 1 results of just over 125/150 and I've started doing MATH1141 which recommends a combined score of 145/150. Initially I thought I was in way over my head but have heard the content of MATH1131 is quite similar to the course I'm already in so postponed switching into 1131. So would it be better to go worse in the higher course or better in the lower course? Rumours floating around are that near perfect 1131 scores scale DOWN to a 90 whilst 1141 scores scale up A LOT? At this point I'm looking for a WAM booster. Any advice would be much appreciated as deadlines to switch are on Thursday

[RuiAce]

Hi!
Just wondering about the difference between MATH1131 and MATH1141? I received...mediocre maths and maths extension 1 results of just over 125/150 and I've started doing MATH1141 which recommends a combined score of 145/150. Initially I thought I was in way over my head but have heard the content of MATH1131 is quite similar to the course I'm already in so postponed switching into 1131. So would it be better to go worse in the higher course or better in the lower course? Rumours floating around are that near perfect 1131 scores scale DOWN to a 90 whilst 1141 scores scale up A LOT? At this point I'm looking for a WAM booster. Any advice would be much appreciated as deadlines to switch are on Thursday

It's not really 'scaling' per se - the thing is, UNSW maths wants to reward people who do 1141 in comparison to 1131 (and other ordinary vs higher courses). So they put a 'cap' on the ordinary version, at around 89 or 90.  But this doesn't really affect anyone else. As far as I know of, people who deserve to get 87 will actually get 87. In this way, they reward the people that really should be doing 1141 (they can push beyond marks of 90) and don't detriment the people doing 1131 either.

That's how they encourage the people that really should be doing 1141 to do it. High school marks may OR may not influence whether or not you should be doing 1141, because in general a student's work ethic changes between Year 12 and first year uni. Your suitability to 1141 is best determined by your ability to cope with what actually makes 1141 and 1131 different.

1131 and 1141 teach the exact same topics, AND sit the exact same assessments UNTIL the final exam. Then, 1/2 of the 1141 exam will be different to 1/2 of the 1131 exam, and the other half is common to both. 1141 is designed to be a lot more theoretical than the more simply computational 1131 counterpart. 1141 focuses on bringing out what makes someone a mathematician, instead of just the ability to do number crunching and battle with algebra. It begins to test you on whether you know why and how mathematics actually works, instead of just follow some routine procedure. As such, whilst the computational stuff might be similar over both courses, you should expect a lot more proving in 1141.

That should be the basis of your decision making process.

[RuiAce]

Hey fam:

Your enrolment appointments should be up for next semester. Please sign into myUNSW, go into your Student Profile and check your enrolment appoint for the next semester - you will have to adjust this in the drop-down list. I heavily advise that you keep the date and time bookmarked - last time round, very few people knew how to do enrolments and you could still get a good time slot 5 hours after you got your offer. This time round, good spots have the potential of being gone in under 10 minutes (or in the worst case 30 seconds), so you will want to be prepared for that.

Note that not everyone will be allowed to enrol on Apr 20. The whole purpose of the enrolment appointment is for UNSW's own sake; otherwise everyone will go on all at once and the website will crash too easily.

Remember that you may use bojangles to prepare a timetable in advance.

[katie,rinos]

Remember that you may use bojangles to prepare a timetable in advance.

Thanks Rui!!
Looks like I'll be at uni all 5 days 

[RuiAce]

Thanks Rui!!
Looks like I'll be at uni all 5 days 

It's very painful. I've been there for four semesters in a row now.

#pray4katie

[FallonXay]

It's very painful. I've been there for four semesters in a row now.

#pray4katie

Long time no see

I see you're doing Computer Science now!!! How are you finding it? ^_^

[RuiAce]

Long time no see

I see you're doing Computer Science now!!! How are you finding it? ^_^

Oh hey man!

Yeah, a lot more fun than actuarial for me. Only doing COMP2521 this sem though

[FallonXay]

Oh hey man!

Yeah, a lot more fun than actuarial for me. Only doing COMP2521 this sem though

Haha, that's good to hear. Taking the Richard Buckland route from Actuarial to Comp Sci? :p

and nice, assuming you did 1917 for the Math part of your degree already? Also watcha thinking of majoring in?

[RuiAce]

Haha, that's good to hear. Taking the Richard Buckland route from Actuarial to Comp Sci? :p

and nice, assuming you did 1917 for the Math part of your degree already? Also watcha thinking of majoring in?

Wait Richard Buckland did that as well??

I took 1511 last sem - I didn't do 1917 when I was in first year
Still unsure right now, but originally planned on AI