What was bad about Statistics/MAST20005?
1. Unlike the two "streams" for probability, you have actuarial, economics, maths and other students all doing MAST20005 Statistics. As department policy is to have a nice normal distribution of marks for undergraduate subjects, the lecturer is forced to challenge the actuarial students as you can't have too many people getting H1s. But at the same time, that means the non-actuarial students may struggle.
2. The lecturer. I think if you went to the first lecturer, you will understand. Think of what defines a bad lecturer. Yeah, he has all those attributes.
3. The exam is worth 75%. But the total amount of marks in the exam is 75. Yes, that means each mark is a percentage. So not only does it make it difficult to get a H1, it is also hard to pass for the student who is struggling all semester.
4. It is the only statistics subject in second year. Unlike Monash which offers a whole range of statistics subjects, MAST20005 is really the only statistics subject with juicy content.
5. It is a theoretical statistics subject, not an applied statistics subject. So that means proofs will be done in class and in assignments.