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[lourai*87]

Is anyone else having trouble with the site

http://www.ucb.net.au/

Is there an alternative? Spose its not urgent, but i'd still like to have a look-see.

Thanks

 

[hipsta_jess]

Co-op >Newcastle 2006 1st Semester

 

[silvermoon]

yeah, i had trouble with it too. keeps saying that "your request has timed-out" whatever that means

 

[PrincessSJ]

the ucb site was down for a few days... seems to be working again now

 

[silvermoon]

yeah, there definately was something wrong - but i went on this morning and it was fine, so thats all good then i suppose

 

[lourai*87]

Yeah, it seems to be all good now.

So, how many books does everyone need - and how much is it going to cost you? I need 5 plus 2 recommended, costing around $413 or $475 with the 2 recommended. It seems quite ex-y!

 

[Captain Gh3y]

That's lots!

I've spent $225 so far, have another $100 to spend when they get the book in and one course left that doesn't have any entry on either site.

 

[lourai*87]

That's lots!

I've spent $225 so far, have another $100 to spend when they get the book in and one course left that doesn't have any entry on either site.

What degree are you doing? I think Chem is the culprit here - 4 texts for it. Biomed science is the other ex-y one. Hoping i dont have to take them all with me!

 

[Captain Gh3y]

Engineering, only 1 book for each of 3 of 4 subjects so far. You probably won't have to take them at all.

 

[Emily.]

get second hand: www.textbookexchange.com.au or look around the uni noticebaords

 

[silvermoon]

What degree are you doing? I think Chem is the culprit here - 4 texts for it. Biomed science is the other ex-y one. Hoping i dont have to take them all with me!

you don't. i was in biomed last year - they give you a whole heap of text books but you don't need half of them --> they're all in the library and never checked out. but if you do buy them, then no, you will never have to carry any of them around.

Yeah, my books will be pretty expensive, though not as bad as last year. The law books for my course are dear, but since im doing arts as my combined major itsa not so bad, most of those books are easy to pick up second hand or just borrow and read.

 

[PrincessSJ]

I need one text book that'll cost me $88

 

[chamelia]

So what does it mean if i go to the site and none of my course codes are there?

No textbooks needed?

 

[lourai*87]

Whats your degree, or courses? All the courses arent listed on the first lot, i think theres about 8 'pages'. And i also found if i put it in search and hit enter, nothing came up, but when i clicked search it did. But lucky you if you dont need any!

 

[jgeo2000]

if i include recommended books i would be paying $789 for first semester... like hell im paying that for paper. if i take away the recommended itas just over $500 and ive looked on www.textbookexchange.com.au and they all seem to be the wrong editions or do not exist

 

[Captain Gh3y]

So what does it mean if i go to the site and none of my course codes are there?

No textbooks needed?

It could mean they haven't got them in yet; in my case there was an entry for a course on the co-op site but not on ucb, and when I asked at ucb they checked and simply had not ordered this particular book yet.

So just wait a while and they might appear. If they don't, then you may use something other than a textbook which I'm guessing you'll find out at the first lecture anyway.

 

[iyamahobbit]

Don't stress about getting the textbooks, u'd be crazy if u ran out and got all the prescribed ones... i reckon the best bet is to use the library until u work out what u'll actually use. Unless of course u intend to start reading before semester starts... but i'd still say ur wasting ur time

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[mrbassman]

The books are not ordered by ucb until the course co-ordinators put in a request, they are never organised.

However, 2 of my texts are available and they are both over 100 bucks .

 

[silvermoon]

if i include recommended books i would be paying $789 for first semester... like hell im paying that for paper. if i take away the recommended itas just over $500 and ive looked on www.textbookexchange.com.au and they all seem to be the wrong editions or do not exist

well, firstly, you can ask your lecturer about editions. often the differences between editions are marginal, so if you need the textbook getting an older edition may still work - you may just have to use a library copy for one section or something if its different.
secondly, depending on what courses you're doing of course, you may not need all the books. in many courses - sciences particularly - the textbooks seem to be more of a follow-up and guide rather than essential. If, however, you're doing english, history etc. type subjects obviously you'd need to buy the texts or borrow them so thatyou can read what you're studying - but those books aren't the expensive ones anyway

 

[em_516]

yeh, if anyone wants some slightly bent micro and macro text books (incl. workbooks, macro's is completely untouched ) let me know