UoM General Chat

[vox nihili]

Is joining UMSU worth the fee? What does it involve?

I'd always thought that joining UMSU was included in the SSAF. Nice to know that my $273 really is just going straight to booze...

[Greatness]

Yeah sorry, I thought you meant the green book questions. It depends on how well you pickup the concepts and understand it. I'd recommend you to do all green booklet questions and see how you go with that. If you're fine with them then you should be ok, but if you're still struggling then maybe go through some textbook questions. Before you do that though you should probably go to a consult and see what you're doing wrong, it might just be a misunderstanding of how to solve a question.

[Inside Out]

You MUST do the questions in the green problem booklet, obviously.
The suggested TEXTBOOK questions (that you are referring to) are not 100% necessary but I did do them for the sections i was least confident in for more practise.
I think the poster above me misread your question and thought you were referring to the problem booklet itself.
I wouldn't recommend doing only tute questions - nowhere near enough even to pass for Calculus 2.
Calculus 2 is pretty hard.  I am OK at maths but I did spent hours on it throughout the semester, every practise exam and every workbook question twice, attended all tutes, and got 100% in the assignments, but still only managed 75% overall.

which workbook questions are you referring to

[hobbitle]

which workbook questions are you referring to

The green problem booklet.

[ChickenCh0wM1en]

The green problem booklet.

I did Calc 2 as well and I found that the lecture examples were horrifically easy compared to the tute questions and the green problem workbook.
I found the exam a totally new level though, especially the 2013 sem 2? I dunno, just what I felt though....

[hobbitle]

I did Calc 2 as well and I found that the lecture examples were horrifically easy compared to the tute questions and the green problem workbook.
I found the exam a totally new level though, especially the 2013 sem 2? I dunno, just what I felt though....

Yeah I did 2013 Sem 2 as well. I was getting 90% in the practise exams and then must have gotten 65-70 in the final exam.

[Hancock]

http://themelbourneengineer.eng.unimelb.edu.au/2014/02/engineering-and-it-ranks-first-in-australia-across-four-subject-areas/

Yeah, Melb School of Eng!

[user2357]

Can I do 350 points if I get 75+ average and overload all semesters in second and third years? Science Student Centre said "You can not do 350 points."

[hobbitle]

Can I do 350 points if I get 75+ average and overload all semesters in second and third years? Science Student Centre said "You can not do 350 points."

Science Student Centre is correct.
You cannot credit more than 300 points towards your degree.
If you want to take extra subjects for interests sake you have to pay through CAP ($3000 per subject)

[lzxnl]

Can I do 350 points if I get 75+ average and overload all semesters in second and third years? Science Student Centre said "You can not do 350 points."

A Bachelor's degree at Melbourne Uni, by definition, is only 300 points. If you want to do more subjects, you'd have to do a diploma and cross-credit particular subjects.

[LOLs99]

http://themelbourneengineer.eng.unimelb.edu.au/2014/02/engineering-and-it-ranks-first-in-australia-across-four-subject-areas/

Yeah, Melb School of Eng!

Great to hear that!!!

[user2357]

A Bachelor's degree at Melbourne Uni, by definition, is only 300 points. If you want to do more subjects, you'd have to do a diploma and cross-credit particular subjects.

I thought I can overload breadths so they don't take any points from the 300 science points.
I am currently doing 100 points at level one to keep my options open as I am not yet decided whether I want to go in the medicine/dentistry direction or physics/engineering direction. That means I can only do 75 points at level 2 and level 3 which really sucks because there are so many interesting subjects at levels 2 and 3...

[Hancock]

Overloading means taking more subjects in a specific semester, not overloading the number of subjects you take in your degree. These overloaded subjects still count towards the 300 limit, and it is a hard limit (since the subsidized funding for your CSP comes from the Government).

[vox nihili]

Can I do 350 points if I get 75+ average and overload all semesters in second and third years? Science Student Centre said "You can not do 350 points."

They're right, though sometimes they screw up study plans and give students extra subjects.

[lzxnl]

For some reason I can overload without asking the Science Centre for permission. I just tried it and I can add Finance 1 into my timetable. This means that I don't need to let the Student Centre know about my overloading next semester. Hehehe.