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hey i am thinking of possibly doing actuarial studies, but am a bit worried about the difficulty of the course and the high dropout rates would anyone roughly know how many first years end up becoming fully qualified as an actuarist? thanks

hey i am in the exact same position as you. i moved away from actuarial studies because people have said it is too hard, but according to friends in the course, it sounds possible to manage. i have talked to people in the commerce industry and many have said that a combined engo/commerce...

hmmz so week 0 we only ned to attend for 1 hour? sweet :D

ah k thanks for the info guys no ned to spend mny for $150 textbooks it seems =D

ah so is engineering design/innovation all groupwork? also how do people rate the use of course notes as the only resource in maths and physics? do they go through how formulae are derived, walkthroguh examples, etc.?

hmmz did first year engo students get anything for ENGG1000 (the design one i think)? its all recomended stuff and looks like a big waste of money

thanks for the advice so far guys hmmz well rite now im considerin civil engineering. i rekon i proly will do harder physics for now but still undecided about harder maths. besides being of interest to me, is der any benefit in the long term ? oh yeh im doing combined engineering/commerce...

o.O a credit congrats. havent heard too many ppl getting them uni maths n physics seems realy different from wat ive read i guess. are the classes for harder maths n physics the same as normal maths n physics except for the assessments?

well i enjoy maths and physics but not the really crazy stuff that gives you headaches =p how do maths and physics in uni compare ta ext 2 n physics in da hsc?

hey how many ppl do harder maths/physics compared to normal maths/physics in unsw for engo. just curious to see how well u have to rank to do the harder ones. i fink i mite have the marks to but from the stories i am hearing normal maths n physics seem hard enough. thanks :)

hey are engineers who study a double degree such as engineering/commerce less preferred by employers compared to engineers who just study the single degree? ive been looking around and have found that the UOC needed for engineering in the combined degree is less than the single engineering...

aint really keen to keep business studies :\

advanced english 4 unit maths chem physics but theres some risk to this. aint certain whether i can cope with ext 2 maths

:wave: is it hard to understand the concepts of maths ext 2 or is it more workload that makes it hard??

Writing is a much better way to interact with what you are studying then reading it Writing is better also as sometimes some people tend to highlight too much or too little in text books

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Re: Career Choices: What do you want to do in uni/tafe/the workforce? im not that sure why but i keep hearing it all around from different people.

Re: Career Choices: What do you want to do in uni/tafe/the workforce? maybe sumtin with mafs, physics, chemistry medicine had too much responsibility, so its off my list dentistry is repetitive, you only have a limited number of procedures to perform i think (ie braces, pulling teeth...

yep yep thats the article i was talking about i suppose it does give some indication, but then and again, if u do good in standard english and all your other subjects, there is no reason why you cant get above 95

have you tried the UAC site? UAC has this section that will show you the maximum UAI you can get with every subject in the statistics section somewhere