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A classmate from Indonesia mentioned that their fellow Indonesian students have been making homophobic comments towards them. They are studying different master's degrees but are in one scholarship group. A couple of them even threatened to report their sexual orientation to their country's scholarship committee. What can I do to help?

I’m second year moving to third year bsci next semester. It had been a rough semester for me. 

Around week 9, my grandma passed away. Then after a few days, my mum was involved in a car accident. Everything happened so suddenly that made me feel bad 

I started struggling mentally. I couldn’t stop overthinking and couldn’t sleep as well (until now). I had to see GP for some sleeping medication just to get through the nights.

The result came out that I received three 49NH grades. I don’t really need criticism or to be told that I should have done better. I know the results aren’t good, and I’ve already been hard enough on myself. More than anything, I just need a little understanding.

But anyway, I’m trying to move forward. My plan is to take four subjects next semester as usual, two subjects over the summer (both breadths so should be fine) and apply for an overload of five subjects in my final semester (semester 1 2027) so I can still graduate on time (as intl student I don’t want to delay it). Ik it won’t be easy for me but yeah I might try to get some fee remission as well. Thank you for reading til here <3

Hi,

I have a subject that registered a 0 on my exam. I know I did not get a 0 on the exam which means there must’ve been an issue with my paper.

Internship applications for finance are starting to close up and I can not apply with a fail on my cv.

I have spoken to the co-ordinater who is investigating, but given that applications are closing I do not have a lot of time.

I am wondering if any staff here anyone has any other advice / ways that my case could be helped.

Thanks 🙏

Does anyone have any recommendations on potential WAM boosters as a BSCI student? Thanks!

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These are my subjects, for context I did BIOL10008, COMP10001, MAST10005 and TSTW last semester, I know this semester will probably be more busy I just want a feel of how much busier...

Hi I am really stressed as I was looking through my subjects and enrolling into them but realised CHEM10006 has a quota of 400 students for semester 2, its a core subject for me and I need it for next year. What do i do in this situation has anyone experienced anything similar and could give me some tips. I emailed the coordinator and sent an enrolment assistance form. ANY ADVICE HELPS.

I just saw my results, and they were terrible. I overloaded this sem (2nd year) and did 4 disciplines, very dumb of me. 3 passed (P), is this concerning because to me it is. I've done so badly. Would med school be achievable? It's what I really want to do. Can someone who came back strong from bad grades share their advice and story on how to do so, please? Any guidance would be very much appreciated. Thank you so much

BCom. Have done Lin Alg, Calculus 2. But not probability. It isn't letting me switch to the Standard pathway. I'd prefer to do Quantitative Methods 1 & 2.

Seems like Stop 1 is always fully booked with appointments. Don't know what I'm supposed to do.

Yo guys can anyone give a suggestion to see if I should do Kwong Lee Dow.
I’m year 10, I believe I should be around top 5% of my cohort.
My extracurriculars are:
- Year 9 SRC
- 2 Bake Sales
- Completing community project
- State level guitar competition (10-11 years of guitar)
- Black belt club mixed martial arts
- Regional badminton
- Regional Debating DAV
- 2 Distinctions in AMC and CAT
Thanks guys.

Thinking about taking this one as a breadth and I noticed that for each assignment description it says:

"Individual review (critique) and oral presentation, demonstrating design output that may include physical or digital models..."

I'm wondering what the individual review (critique) is and what the oral presentations are like? Presenting is not my strength so I don't wanna have to prepare a formal oral presentation for every assignment.

Thanks in advance!

Kind of trying to get a feel of how hard foa actually is...

Are music and health tutorials compulsory? Same goes for principles of marketing lectures? I did principles of management and lecture attendance was lowkey compulsory do to in-lecture quizzes

Pls help I can’t see my grade for one of my subjects and everuone else I know can see their grade does this mean I failed or they lost my exam

Each subject review includes my own result (to anchor expectations) and a “Difficulty Rating” which ranges from 0/10 (extremely easy), 5/10 (doable, think: Calc2/LinAlg), to 7/10 (hard, think: Intro Macroecon), to 10/10 (nightmare fuel, think: Principles of Finance). Obviously my opinions are my own only, and may not reflect others’ experiences.

ACTL20001 Introductory Finance
Coordinator/Lecturer: Ping Chen
Difficulty Rating: 9/10, Recommended: 10/10 (if you have the guts for it!)
Teaching Activities Per week: 2x 1 hour Lectures, 1x 1 hour Tute
Assessment: 2 Assignments (30% Total), Final Exam (70%, Hurdle).

One of the most challenging and rewarding subjects I’ve ever done in university. The course begins with an introduction to interest rates and different ways of describing it, such as simple/compound/nominal (and equivalent discount). Then discusses different financial products like stocks and bonds, as well as pricing financial products and cash flows.

Lectures are extremely fast paced and I struggled greatly to keep up with the speed and depth with which Ping goes through things. However, once I began to slightly understand the content, it was really interesting and very rewarding to keep learning. The final exam reflects the difficulty of the course content and I struggled greatly with time pressure and couldn’t finish the paper. I believe there was no scaling. Still I’m grateful for having this opportunity to test my absolute academic limits, and although I didn’t do as well as I wanted (due to an insufficient amount of both talent and effort), the intensity of this experience has shaped my character.

MAST20004 Probability 
Coordinator: Peter Taylor (& Sophie Hautphenne also a Lecturer)
Difficulty Rating: 7/10, Recommended: 9/10
Teaching Activities Per week: 3x 1 hour Lectures, 2x 1 hour Tutes (1 of them a R computer lab)
Assessment: 4 Assignments (20% Total), Final Exam (80%).

This course is an (initially) gentle but rigorous introduction to the concepts of probability, and some related ideas. The course starts with defining “axioms” related to probability, some general properties of it, and then discusses different types of “special” probability distributions as well as ways to calculate/describe probability, and what a random variable is. Concepts like “mean” and “variance” are also mentioned. Towards the end there’s also a bunch of tangential stuff such as Chebyshev’s inequality, different limit theorems, and covariance. However they’re not assessed very heavily.  The exam was accessible, with most questions being surface level and easier than the tutorial questions (There are some challenging ones meant to separate the very top students, where most people including myself just skipped/couldn’t start). 

Overall, I scored in the low 90s & (in terms of revision) would mostly recommend memorising the key formulas from lectures and know how to apply them without making mistakes. You can also try to do the “Problem Booklet” however that’s mostly reserved for the top students (I couldn’t do the majority of those questions & towards the end, most of them are so complex/extension that I wouldn't even bother trying), the exams are not nearly that level of difficulty. Understanding the lecture formulas & applying them to tutorial questions should be sufficient to do decently. You are allowed to bring a 2 page cheat sheet.

MAST20026 Real Analysis
Coordinator/Lecturer: Alex Ghitza
Difficulty Rating: 7/10, Recommended: 7/10
Teaching Activities Per week: 3x 1 hour Lectures, 2x 1 hour Tutes
Assessment: 4 Assignments (20% Total), 10 Online Quizzes (10% Total), Final Exam (70%).

The course covers (in order): basic formal logic, sets, sequences, functions, integration, and series. It mostly expands upon Calculus 2 and delves into different proof techniques. There are 2 tutorials each week and sometimes cover content that was not mentioned in lectures (the first time I’ve experienced this in a MAST subject). The content is hard to follow and the proofs done are often presented / understood in a very confusing way. However, the lecturer is engaging and did their best. The assignment questions are very difficult and extend beyond what is done in Lectures. This sem is notably different from previous years as there was less focus on the algebra axioms, and more on the “analytical” stuff such as continuity and convergence. There’s also less of a focus on traditional “epsilon” “delta” proofs in favour of a wider range of different theorems, making this sem more content heavy than past papers.

I found the exam tough with serious time restraint, and some questions felt quite inaccessible. But overall it was reasonable, with (presumably) very VERY heavy scaling applied to the final result, I scored in the low-mid 90s despite doing much worse than that on the exam. Overall, even though this subject is not compulsory for the Bachelor of Commerce, I’d recommend it for some Econ & Finance majors who wish to build up mathematical rigour / ability, before taking on the nightmare that is level 3 econ/finance.

COMP10001 Foundations of Computing
Coordinator: Chris Ewin, Geela Chee
Difficulty Rating: 4/10, Recommended: 8/10
Teaching Activities Per week: 3x 1 hour Lectures, 1x 2 hour Tute
Assessment: 2 Assignments (30% Total), MidSem Test (10%), Worksheets (10%), Final Exam (50%, Hurdle).

Introduces students to the basics of Python programming and is designed for those with zero computing/coding experience whatsoever. The course starts gently from basic items in the language in the first 3 weeks, then stuff like statements/loops in the middle, then more advanced stuff like recursion & writing actual code that does stuff. The lectures don’t really follow the slides but are mostly the lecturers writing code in front of you and running it to demonstrate different things. The MST and Final both include a lot of questions asking you to write 1-line expressions, or evaluating the output of certain expressions. If you get a good grasp on those you’ll bag a good portion of the marks. The 2 assignments allow you as much time as you want to work on them, so if you can get good marks on those you can scrape an H1 regardless (In my case I put in good effort to score highly on the project, which allowed me to get mid-80s overall despite doing wayyy worse on the final).

Despite this being my worst result this sem (which contradicts me giving this the lowest Difficulty Rating out of the 4 subjects), I’d like to say that this is fully my own fault for not putting in any of the work, not going to any of the tutorials, and not watching the last 3 lectures. The subject itself is very well-designed and heavily rewards those that work hard, and (in my case) punishes those who don't. Very recommended for those looking to make a start on programming.

if I choose a subject that has a quotas, will I be able to hear back before the timetable preference timing closes?

Hi everyone,

I'm a first-year BCom student going into Semester 2 and planning to double major in Accounting and Finance.

According to the 2026 Handbook, ECON10003 Introductory Macroeconomics is no longer a compulsory Commerce core subject and seems to only be required for an Economics major. I know I need to complete ARA and PoF, but I can't find anything saying Intro Macro is required for Finance.

However, I've heard from a few people that you still need Intro Macro for some Level 2 or 3 Finance subjects.

Can anyone confirm whether that's actually true under the 2026 course structure? If I don't take Intro Macro, will I miss out on any compulsory or commonly taken Finance subjects?

Thanks!

Hey everyone,

​I'm looking for some advice regarding course transfers, specifically from a Bachelor of Science to a Bachelor of Arts.

​Originally, I wanted to transfer for Semester 2, but I ended up failing one of my Sem 1 subjects, so that plan fell through. Now, I am aiming to transfer after completing my first full year, so I would be starting Arts in Year 2, Semester 1 (my 3rd semester overall).

​Because I failed that 12.5-credit subject in Sem 1, I will only have successfully passed 7 subjects (87.5 credit points) by the end of this year instead of the standard 8 subjects (100 credit points).

​Right now, my WAM is sitting at around 62. I failed that one subject, but my other two subjects were up in the 70s.

​My main questions are:

​Do I need to have completed a total of 8 passed subjects (100 points) to even be eligible to transfer? Can I apply to transfer with 7 completed subjects and just make up the failed points later on, or do I need to pick up a summer subject to catch up first?

​What kind of minimum WAM do I realistically need to get into Arts? Will a 62 WAM cut it for an internal transfer, or do I need to seriously pull it up in Semester 2 to be competitive?

​If anyone has been in a similar situation or knows how strict admissions are with credit minimums and WAMs for internal transfers, I’d really appreciate your insight!

​Thanks in advance.

hi ^_^

i signed up to volunteer at open day with a friend but she's no longer volunteering so now i'm second guessing if i should actually do it. i've never been to an open day (at any uni) so i'm not really sure what the vibes are.

if you volunteered at open day previously, did you enjoy it? and what kind of tasks did you do?

thanks <3