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[dptjandra]

I'm not sure if it is exclusively biomedicine, but the reason I would supsect it wreaks more havoc on someone in a biomed degree than commerce would be a) Commerce has fewer hours in general for which there could be a potential crash, b) There are more commerce students, and subsequently, many lectures have more than one stream - if one clashes with accelerated maths (for which there is only one stream of lectures), there is usually a repeat in the afternoon.  This latter reason applies equally to science students, who have about as many contact hours as Biomed, but with more streams as their subjects are generally huge.  Biomed only has one stream of lectures for the majority of its core subjects (eg. Biology, Chemistry, Stats) - these are in the morning, which is when accelerated maths is on.

[Russ]

It's more because subjects are allocated to blocks and the biomed students had the bad luck to have their core subjects blocked with accelerated maths.

Check the uni breadth subjects, most of them have the exact same sets of lecture/tute times

[tram]

ah ok, that makes sense

[qshyrn]

It's more because subjects are allocated to blocks and the biomed students had the bad luck to have their core subjects blocked with accelerated maths.

Check the uni breadth subjects, most of them have the exact same sets of lecture/tute times

can we check the timetable already?

[rustic_metal]

Go to your subject in the handbook and click view timetable.

[kyzoo]

wait, is accelerated maths part of biomed core?

[dptjandra]

Read my post about the three options - it is not unless you really, really want it to be.

[qshyrn]

Go to your subject in the handbook and click view timetable.

do lectures go for the full hour? (or are we allowed to schedule a 9AM-10AM and a 10AM-11AM side by side? )

[curious111]

Go to your subject in the handbook and click view timetable.

do lectures go for the full hour? (or are we allowed to schedule a 9AM-10AM and a 10AM-11AM side by side? )

Side to side lectures/tutes are fine. According to this link, if the timetable says a lecture runs from 9am - 10am for example, the actual lecture goes from 9:05 to 9:55, which means you should have 10 minutes between side by side lectures.

[rustic_metal]

Yes, that's right. Lectures start 5 minutes past the hour and end 5 minutes before the hour, so you have 10 minutes to get between classes. Also, afternoon classes start at quarter past (e.g. 1:15 - 2:15, though the 5 minutes at the start and end thing still applies).

[qshyrn]

Sorry, to resurrect but if you are considering going for the postgrad MD, (majoring in something like Human structure and functioiN)   would it be more advisable to do calc 2+lin alg rather than acc maths1+2?
acc maths is much harder and may impact negatively on your GPA?
Calc2+linalg are much more application oriented subjects (more suited to non-maths majors) ..?

[Massofbubbles]

You only need to do one semester of maths, and the first year is weighted as one sixth of your overall gpa (correct me if I'm wrong here), so you're best off just doing the one that you want to do the most.

[Russ]

Yes, which means one subject in first year is one forty-eighth of your 3year GPA