It was a tough yet fufilling semester, fighting with the notorious bellcurve in NUS. This was the sem I realised graduating with second upper (4.0-4.49) would be good enough for me. I think that comparing with others makes this whole education a really tiring journey, so from today onwards I am aiming to do well for myself! Since this is a late post I shall post what I remember about 1 year ago!
ACC1002X
My lecturer was Aimee Shih and trust me if she teaches you, you are in good hands. She really go into every single detail that sometimes she teaches me things I already known, I still get that enlightenment like why didn't I think of approaching the problem in this manner. But sometimes, no matter how good the lecturer, being bombarded with too many info in 1 session can make you want to sleep cos your brain is getting fried AHHAH! She is really best lecturer till the end cos I remember getting a box of polar and puff bakery at the last lec, and yes she bribed my heart with that 1 box of bakery ahahah!
I have taken Principle of Accounting during O levels and the first few chapters is just a repeat of debit and credit. Knowing how to debit and credit can really allow you to derive many formulas in the back end chapter rather than pure memorising but if memorising formulas is your forte do what works best for you!
I remember doing pretty well for midterms but the bellcurve is quite high! But I guess finals I was so damn confused about LIFO and FIFO and there was like 5 questions on that I think i freaked out then I couldn't balance the statement of cash flows I think I was about to explode from stress ahahhaah!
Midterm(30%) - 28/35 (75 percentile -30m)
Project(20%) - 78/100 (Median - 80)
Finals(40%)
Class Participation(10%)
Expected Grade: A-
Final Grade : B+ (Thanks to LIFO & FIFO)
CFG1010
This mod is v relaxing but slightly waste of time ahhahaha! But take the free 2 MCs! Because this mod is really hard to fail and use it to clear your UE together with CFG2001 (2 MCs) ! Literally they ask you to breath in breath out then close your eyes (PS: I really close it for a nap AHAHAH) ! But 1 thing really irritating is that the videos that are watched at homes are super lag 1hr to load a 10 min video because of the school VPN. But relax yourself and if you have this mod please overload cos you only have 2 live session with them! PLUS my batch was quiz every week BUT I HEARD they change it to quiz nearing recess week and reading week which is quite sad for my batch ahahah!
Expected Grade: CS
Final Grade: CS
GET1028
This mod I would say is a mix of english "riddle" and simple mathematical proving. The prof is Dr Lee Wang Yen and he is really boring ahahahah! Okay, maybe its cos I don't like "english" mods just makes me want to fall asleep bad. But I think many of the students feel that way too since the crowd from first lec vanishes from every row almost filled to every row 3-5 students max. But the shocking thing is during quiz (held in LT) the whole LT will be filled with people I seen for the first time in my life ahahah! This mod is not difficult to score as long as you do logic cola diligently or even last minute cos its that simple. Just have to abbreviate the whole sentence in a letter S Cs etc then you have words like "and" you just have to put a symbol to it and solve this whole logical equations through simple proving(very systematic).
Quiz 1: 17.05%/20% (Median 19.something from my excel computation as prof uploads the whole score into excel)
Quiz3: 18%/20% (Median 17.something)
There was supposed to be 3 quizzes whereby the prof takes best 2 out of 3 but he changes it halfway through the sem into best 1 out of 2. Abit sad because I screwed up my first and I wanted to salavage it.
Class Participation(10%) - 10% (Everyone got full 10% as long as they attend all the odd/even week tut, marks is published)
Logic Cola(20%) - 20% (As long as you completed all the assignment listed in the requirement you get full 20%)
Finals (50%) - At least 85% of the cohort scored 90% and above
Expected Grade: B-
Final Grade : A- (YAY)
LAK2201
The bellcurve for this level was manageable compared to level 1000. The workload was okay! But most importantly, Han Ji Won songseongnim was my teacher. She taught me really well since you guys remember my level 1000 was really crap midterm 50(median 80) LOL. I decided to take level 2000 since I think I should give myself one last chance on my only interest in NUS. Lucky I did that because I am taking level 4000 right now! I wouldn't say I'm an A student but I am happy I still took it! Han Ji Won always makes jokes like her name is similar to this actress name Ha Ji Won except for the surname and yes, she did that with that actress face on the slide LOL. But her jokes sometimes was quite awkward that have some cold breeze but its quite funny at this moment cos everyone realise they didn't put in enough reaction and reacts seconds later ahahhaah. Overall a fun lesson except for the Video assignment( 2 people conversing based on the script in 1 take) and ORAL terrrorrr. I remember a lot of NG for the video because the particle is wrong or the word is pronounced wrongly or I just blanked out. The oral was worse cos the pause was so bloody awkward because its me and her only in the classroom and THEY SHOULD REMOVE THE TIMER IT STRESSES ME OUT esp when I stare at how much time I have left ahahhaah! HW assignment is writing long essays, I used naver translate to check if my middle grammar is correct ahahah! The end of the sentence just end with i-eh-yo/si-mi-da something like that which is quite systematic. because I always mix up my yi/ka with eul/leul.
Midterm(30%) - 69/100 (Median 73)
HW Assignment 1(7%) - 5.5/7
HW Assignment 2(8%) - 6.5/8
Oral(15%)
Finals(30%)
Class Participation(10%)
Expected Grade - B+
Final Grade - B+
MA1101R
This mod is taught by Dr Wang Fei and Dr Victor Tan. As usual Dr Wang Fei does not breathe and everything is easy for him 😅 . I would say this is the mod I was ready to SU cos stats major don't have linear algebra 2 nor any mods related to it except using simple matrix, gaussian elimination and inverse matrix which is the easy kind like 3 by 3 matrix rarely 4 by 4 matrix. On the other hand, this mod's prof like to give you 5 by 6 Matrix or 6 by 5 matrix for you to slowly do gaussian elimination, I think I was about to cry a pool of tears during the exam cos it was so tedious and stressful. I would say this mod is definitely easier and more fun than MA1102R but I still do not really enjoy ahahah!
Dr Victor Tan on the other hand encourages you to do lec quiz and promises to add 1% to your midterm out of 20% if you answer a certain amount of questions correctly throughout his next half of the lecturer which i think really encouraged people to attend his lec. Plus, his speaking pace is about 3 times slower than wang fei and his anaologies to approach a math problem is really useful and interesting. Of course the way he solve the problem is very simple compared to what I would expect.
HW Assignment 1(3%) - 49/50
HW Assignment 2(3%) - 47/50
HW Assignment 3(3%) - 44/50
HW Assignment 4(3%) - 50/50
Yes the assignment is a lot and it comes every 3 weeks, and also yes, I spent CNY doing MA1101R ahahahah! So glad I got this cleared.
Midterms(20%) - 24/40 (Median - 30)
Matlab(8%) - 15/20 (Median - 17)
Finals(60%)
I just copied the entire notes into my cheatsheet and just went to the exam without much revision because I knew I could pass but know I couldn't get more than B ahahahah.
Expected Grade - B
Final Grade - B-/S
ST2131
This mod is seriously the hardest mod for statistics I ever taken! Trust me, clear this and nothing will faze you anymore! All the proving in statistics was too hard to read, too hard to write out, too hard to even understand. Its like a bunch of alien codes ahahah! I was in like deep shit cos I can feel myself drowning in the ocean already. Prof vik with his distinctive swag shiny bald head is seriously a great lecturer with brilliant brain of course!Its like a package that he is smart and I can see that because there was no hair obstructing that shape of intelligent brain. And he really bring out this bald head fashion like Vin Diesel in fast and furious. Its like you can't imagine him with hair. He teaches well even though this content was so difficult. But the tutors are no go because 1.they talk to themselves, 2.i dono what they are saying because they explain in such a chim manner like making it harder to understand when it already is hard. 3. I give up on attending tutorial since I really learn nothing from it and learn more from the answer key when he upload them.
Assignment(10%) - 10%
(The assignment answers was all over google which makes it pretty unfair for people for try on their own)
5 Quizzes(10%) -10%
(This Quiz allows you to attempt until you get full marks 5/5)
Midterms(30%) - 7/30 (median - 13)
(Never in my life I saw a median in NUS is a fail, but never in my life had I failed a test in NUS too ahahah, I did so badly that I think I have no eyes to see anymore)
Finals(50%)
Expected Grade - B-
Final Grade - B+
(They say never give up, yes, I didn't. In fact, I couldn't cos I couldn't S/U this. Glad I did better than expected, didnt waste my effort to redo all tut before finals to make sure I understand this alien language)
