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The WAM that appears on your transcript is just a straight weighted average of your marks. It is all done automatically which means that it sometimes gets it a bit wrong. (For example, if you do a full year subject like maths honours you enrol in one 24 UOC subject each session, but only one of...

The proportions of each grade varies heaps from subject to subject, and from school to school. All the marks need to get approved by some faculty committee before they are made official which stops any lecturer going mad and failing everyone. I think that in the higher year subjects they compare...

That is really hard to say as you don't get back the mark for the final exam. When you do the past exams you usually find that some of them are much harder than others, but I guess that the scaling takes care of that. From people I know, you probably want to be averaging 90% on your preexam...

You shouldn't think of the final mark at the end of the session as being the total of all you scored on all the assessments. When they add all those up it puts all the students in order. Then they decide who deserves to pass and the bottom passing student gets 50 as a final mark. If they decide...

try http://www.youtube.com/user/DrChrisTisdell

For first year maths just do heaps of past papers. Your lecturers will probably give you some idea of what things are likely to appear on exams (especially in the last lecture). As timothy.s said, lots of the 1131 questions are pretty close to the [R] questions in the problems, so if you know...

For Maths you'll do MATH1131 in semester 2. Unless you want to get your program pretty stuffed up, you'll do MATH1231 over the summer.

You could maybe ask the lecturer at your next lecture. It sounds like they have to do something to get it to be available.

I think that they automatically record all the lectures in the big lecture rooms like Mathews. If you log on to blackboard, you need to click on the link to TELT eLearning gateway at the bottom left which will let you find lectopia. (Can you follow the lecture with just the audio??)

2U isn't really fine for 1131/1141. People have passed it with that background, but they assume that you have done 3U so you have to work really hard (and be OK at maths). For 1141 or 1151 they pretty much assume you have done 4U, so it isn't surprising the OP is finding it hard. 1151 has...

You can't do 1141 with 2U, and in any case you would have the same problem. They can let people do 1131/1231 instead of 1151/1251 - check your course office. I think that people who start midyear need to do this anyway. You should also think about whether you are in the right degree...how...

I'd try the maths website, eg http://www.maths.unsw.edu.au/currentstudents/course-homepages The online handbook can be very frustrating.

Just interested? Did you think that you were going to like it, but it turns out to be different to what you expected? Or did you feel that you had to go to university because of parents/friends/teachers/... Or did you choose a course you don't like?

There isn't any great rush to drop down. You can do it until the census date (31 March??) if you see the maths office. You can always try going to some 1131 lectures to see if they seem any better.

Chill everyone. The transition from school to uni can be a bit of a shock cos everything comes much faster. But its like that for everyone. For maths, just sit down with the problem book and try the tutorial problems. If you can't do anything after rereading your lecture notes you might be in...

What is important are the problems. The 1131/1141 notes are just there to give you some additional material in those parts where the syllabus overlaps. The exact full syllabus should be in the coursepack somewhere. In calc 1151 they do some multivariable stuff that isn't in 1131/1141, but I...

...try Dr John Steele in Maths. BTW, you don't really have to do honours. They'll just give you the BSc bit if you stop without doing that final year.

Don't panic just because you find the lectures confusing. After the lecture, read through the yellow notes (I assume they are still yellow!), and have a go at the first few problems. If you can do most of the [R] problems you'll be fine.

Ha!...no. (I think that CT does sometimes frequent bos but doesn't he use his own name?)