Academic Advice Day 2011 Thread

[rustic_metal]

They don't actually care which lectures you go to. They only split them up alphabetically so the majority of people go "right, that's my time" and they don't get 700 people in the same lecture.

You can claim credit at any time by going to a student centre and filling out a form. Just do it when you have 20 minutes to kill some time in first semester.

[tram]

Thanks for the info

[tram]

Another question, on the vtac website it says my enrolement time is from 11 till 12 at the exact place where the second bcomm lecture is being held, is it just a lecture or is there anything else happening that is personal?

[mikee65]

For those people wishing to attend course information sessions for the popular science subjects such as Chem and Bio:

Tip:  Get there early to either get a seat or at least stand in a place where you can hear the coordinator well.

Also, I found the Chemistry 1 info session very useful.  

So what goes on during the actual course BSc session, just basically giving an outline of the course parameters and possibility of certain studys?:

Also theres no specific chem sessions just chem..I think

[mankay]

They don't actually care which lectures you go to.

Can anyone else confirm this?

I don't want to go to the early session!

[mikee65]

Are they checking names??

[Edmund]

They don't actually care which lectures you go to.

Can anyone else confirm this?

I don't want to go to the early session!

Rustic is correct

Are they checking names??

No

[rustic_metal]

I've only ever had my name checked at a lecture once, which was at a special guest lecture in ESD1. They were so desperate to have people actually attend that they made 2% of your final mark a freebie just for attending the guest lecture.

Which basically just meant we got our names scanned, walked in the door and straight out the opposite door.

[mikee65]

I've only ever had my name checked at a lecture once, which was at a special guest lecture in ESD1. They were so desperate to have people actually attend that they made 2% of your final mark a freebie just for attending the guest lecture.

Which basically just meant we got our names scanned, walked in the door and straight out the opposite door.

Niceee, what subject was it??

[mankay]

They don't actually care which lectures you go to.

Can anyone else confirm this?

I don't want to go to the early session!

Rustic is correct

Are they checking names??

No

Thanks! On a related note, does anybody know if all the BSc sessions are held in the same theatre? The itinerary site doesn't let you choose your non-'allocated' one so i can't confirm which theatre session 2 (10-11) is in.

[dyaner]

One thing to clear up. What happens on the enrolment date? Mine's at 10-11 at some building off campus and I seriously have no clue whether to bring tfn number/passport/things like that along. Called up 13 MELB and whole heaps of other numbers last week but I was on hold for over an hour. I gave up waiting, haha!

[mikee65]

They don't actually care which lectures you go to.

Can anyone else confirm this?

I don't want to go to the early session!

Rustic is correct

Are they checking names??

No

Thanks! On a related note, does anybody know if all the BSc sessions are held in the same theatre? The itinerary site doesn't let you choose your non-'allocated' one so i can't confirm which theatre session 2 (10-11) is in.

Think so, this is 10-11 Basement Theatre, The Spot, P13

[rustic_metal]

I've only ever had my name checked at a lecture once, which was at a special guest lecture in ESD1. They were so desperate to have people actually attend that they made 2% of your final mark a freebie just for attending the guest lecture.

Which basically just meant we got our names scanned, walked in the door and straight out the opposite door.

Niceee, what subject was it??

ESD1 is first year, first semester engineering.

[tram]

One thing to clear up. What happens on the enrolment date? Mine's at 10-11 at some building off campus and I seriously have no clue whether to bring tfn number/passport/things like that along. Called up 13 MELB and whole heaps of other numbers last week but I was on hold for over an hour. I gave up waiting, haha!

my question exactly

[mikee65]

One thing to clear up. What happens on the enrolment date? Mine's at 10-11 at some building off campus and I seriously have no clue whether to bring tfn number/passport/things like that along. Called up 13 MELB and whole heaps of other numbers last week but I was on hold for over an hour. I gave up waiting, haha!

my question exactly

I think you need: Passport, Student #, TFN