The S1 2009 Results Prediction/Real Thread (3 Viewers)

[Joel8945]

Oh well, below expectations but still good i suppose.

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Session Course Title Result

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T1 MATH2011 Several Variable Calculus........83 DN
T1 PHYS2010 Mechanics........................84 DN
T1 PHYS2020 Computational Physics............90 HD
T1 PHYS2030 Laboratory A.....................91 HD
T1 PHYS2040 Quantum Physics..................82 DN
T1 PHYS2810 Atmospheric Physics..............93 HD
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May I ask you why you are majoring in physics?

At the moment I am deciding between majoring in maths, physics or engineering and I would just like to hear what it is about physics that made you want to major in it? Because I'm finding it really hard to decide!

 

[sunjet]

i got 82 in legt, sik sik.

 

[Dumsum]

I feel for u =(

Why so many for?

Well a lot of the problem is I want to do subjects to count for maths honours that won't be running next year. So for example, I did Geometry this past semester, and next semester I want to do Irrationality and Transcendence. Aside from that, I've had issues where I wasn't planning for SCIF1021 and stupidly only did 3 subjects for s2 last year so I have to overload this year, oh and I also have Diploma subjects to do... it's a bit messy.

 

[dvse]

Well a lot of the problem is I want to do subjects to count for maths honours that won't be running next year. So for example, I did Geometry this past semester, and next semester I want to do Irrationality and Transcendence. Aside from that, I've had issues where I wasn't planning for SCIF1021 and stupidly only did 3 subjects for s2 last year so I have to overload this year, oh and I also have Diploma subjects to do... it's a bit messy.

Is it just me or is "Geometry" a pretty crazy course with zero intersection with the rest of the mathematics and based on the lecturer's self-published book?

 

[runnable]

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[chewy123]

^holy shite, congrat

 

[_santa]

have you taken it before or something? maybe it changes each time it is run, but this session i thought it was great, and it was a very historical course too, covering lots of classic material not just norman's research. one of the best courses i've taken at unsw

Are you talking about Higher Topology and Differential Geometry - MATH3701? Coz I'm planning to do it in 3rd year. It's useful for computer graphic, yes?

 

[TehAzner]

UNSW Assessment Results for Semester 1 2009

Issued at Thu Jul 9 17:51:48 2009

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Session Course Title Result

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T1 ACCT1501 Accounting & Financial Mgt 1A....89 HD
T1 ECON1101 Microeconomics 1.................92 HD
T1 ECON1202 Quantitative Methods A...........98 HD
T1 MGMT1001 Fundamentals of Management.......87 HD
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Term WAM: 91.500 Overall WAM: 91.500 Undergraduate

Alright

Omgosh, well done there!! Did you top QMA?? You get a cash prize if you did lol. You should think about being a PASS leader for next year

 

[wtfhscbbq]

UNSW Assessment Results for Semester 1 2009

Issued at Thu Jul 9 17:51:48 2009

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Session Course Title Result

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T1 ACCT1501 Accounting & Financial Mgt 1A....89 HD
T1 ECON1101 Microeconomics 1.................92 HD
T1 ECON1202 Quantitative Methods A...........98 HD
T1 MGMT1001 Fundamentals of Management.......87 HD
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Term WAM: 91.500 Overall WAM: 91.500 Undergraduate

Alright

how did u study?

 

[runnable]

^holy shite, congrat

Thanks. :wave:

Omgosh, well done there!! Did you top QMA?? You get a cash prize if you did lol. You should think about being a PASS leader for next year

Doubt it, I think there will be 99s or 100s in QMA.. anyway I don't think there is a cash prize for QMA lol

how did u study?

Umm well for QMA, I just made sure I understood the topics and what they are trying to do and solve. Then make sure I can do the actual questions. Not very specific I know but its just doing practice questions.

 

[dvse]

have you taken it before or something? maybe it changes each time it is run, but this session i thought it was great, and it was a very historical course too, covering lots of classic material not just norman's research. one of the best courses i've taken at unsw

I've seen the book. There are some pretty controversial justifications to say the least. I suppose something like that can be interesting if one hasn't seen any properly done planimetry before?

If you don't believe me, check out any number of downright bad (by the conventions of the genre) reviews in mathematical press.

None of this would really be a problem, but the fact that this is a fourth year course called "Geometry", while one goes through all the 4 years of a "pure" honours degree without ever hearing the definition of "homology", is downright criminal.

 

[dvse]

i haven't finished the book yet so can't really comment on it

some of the things we covered in MATH5785 lectures:

i probably missed something, we covered a LOT

i suppose you have seen these?
YouTube - njwildberger's Channel

Haven't seen the videos. I first came across this stuff in a crank review on slashdot, of all places.

I'm not saying that the material is wrong or not interesting in its own right, but it has nothing to do with mathematical mainstream and gives students the wrong impression about what methods are relevant and important in "geometry".

UNSW already does not offer courses in many key areas of modern mathematics at all or they only run once in several years. See Harvard PhD qual exams curriculum for a representative view of what constitutes (the bare minimum of) "core" mathematics:

Harvard Mathematics Department : Graduate Information

 

[dvse]

thanks for the link, the exams are interesting

i'm pretty happy with the school of maths at UNSW and my impression is that they are doing quite well internationally. i think if they had more honours students they could probably offer a lot more courses, but at the moment they still offer more courses that i want to do than i can actually fit into each session

It's one of the better departments in Australia, of course, but decidedly second tier internationally.

Anyway, if one only wants to do worthwhile courses there are hardly enough (intro to algebraic geometry was last run in 2004, for example).

 

[shinji]

how did u study?

stopfucking asking how people study.

 

[Uncle]

I click on myUNSW.
View Results.
I see marks, yes.
I see Term WAM, yes.
Where is the Overall WAM??

i haven't finished the book yet so can't really comment on it

some of the things we covered in MATH5785 lectures:

* euclidean geometry
* projective geometry
* affine geometry
* algebraic geometry
* cartesian geometry
* rational trigonometry
* hyperbolic geometry
* spherical geometry
* elliptical geometry
* relativistic geometry
* chromogeometry
* projective universal geometry
* rational spherical/elliptical geometry
* rational projective geometry

i probably missed something, we covered a LOT

i suppose you have seen these?
YouTube - njwildberger's Channel

holy shit that is a lot of geometry.

 

[Dumsum]

I'm not saying that the material is wrong or not interesting in its own right, but it has nothing to do with mathematical mainstream and gives students the wrong impression about what methods are relevant and important in "geometry".

But I think that's his whole point: that the mainstream has got it wrong in this area, especially trigonometry.

 

[hollyy.]

UNSW Assessment Results for Semester 1 2009

Issued at Thu Jul 9 17:51:48 2009

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Session Course Title Result

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T1 ACCT1501 Accounting & Financial Mgt 1A....89 HD
T1 ECON1101 Microeconomics 1.................92 HD
T1 ECON1202 Quantitative Methods A...........98 HD
T1 MGMT1001 Fundamentals of Management.......87 HD
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Term WAM: 91.500 Overall WAM: 91.500 Undergraduate

Alright

show off.
my happy bubble remains unburst.

 

[runnable]

show off.
my happy bubble remains unburst.

lol why should you let anything burst your happy bubble? Uni is not like the hsc, shouldnt mind what others are getting.

 

[KFunk]

UNSW Assessment Results for Semester 1 2009

Issued at Thu Jul 9 17:51:48 2009

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Session Course Title Result

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T1 PECO2000 Political Economy & the State....86 HD
T1 PHIL2006 Intro to Political Philosophy....85 HD
T1 PHIL2515 Modernity and its Discontents....89 HD
T1 PHIL3208 Contemporary Epistemology........87 HD
T1 PHIL3419 Existential Phenomenology........91 HD
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Tres happy.

 

[Tim035]

This thread makes it look like the norm for uni is a distinction / high distinction WAM lol.

Shinji! you were that one commerce student in biomed engineering gen ed, when practically everyone else was a science student.