Help needed regarding course selection: MA100, MA107, ST107 and ST102

you cant take MA100 and MA107 because MA107 is just half of MA100 lol. these are your two options only:

Option 1 : MA100 and ST102

Option 2 : MA107, ST107 and some other subject (but not MA100 or ST102)

Reply 2

OP

Strange! The system should have disallowed it then since it seems to accord with the general course rules.. anyway thanks for the heads up ollie..

Reply 3

omairaziz

and how do we go about selecting the courses? do we have to do it through LSE For You or do we do that once we register at lse?

Reply 4

omairaziz

and how do we go about selecting the courses? do we have to do it through LSE For You or do we do that once we register at lse?

Yer you do it through LSE For You - theres a section called Course Selection and you pick your modules through that. then your choices are sent to your tutor, who has to then approve them before you can take them.

ollie :biggrin:

Reply 5

omairaziz

thanks ollie, its there on LSE For You :smile:

. MA100, ST102, AC100, EC102 seems the best combination to me, what do you think, specially if i plan to change my degree to maths & econ after the first year?

Reply 6

omairaziz

thanks ollie, its there on LSE For You :smile:

. MA100, ST102, AC100, EC102 seems the best combination to me, what do you think, specially if i plan to change my degree to maths & econ after the first year?

Yer thats the standard first year for most econ based courses. If you also plan on changing course at the end of your first year then those module options will allow you to pick practically anything. All those modules have hundreds of people doing them, so chances are some of your friends at uni will be doing them too.

ollie :biggrin:

Reply 7

omairaziz

olliemccowan

Yer thats the standard first year for most econ based courses. If you also plan on changing course at the end of your first year then those module options will allow you to pick practically anything. All those modules have hundreds of people doing them, so chances are some of your friends at uni will be doing them too.

ollie :biggrin:

thanks a lot, i'll definately go for these courses :yy:

Reply 8

OP

olliemccowan

Yer thats the standard first year for most econ based courses. If you also plan on changing course at the end of your first year then those module options will allow you to pick practically anything. All those modules have hundreds of people doing them, so chances are some of your friends at uni will be doing them too.

ollie :biggrin:

Ollie, is the grade average one recieves at the end of year 1 percentage based or percentile based thus somewhat equating the difference in difficulty levels between ma100, st102 and their corresponding half credit units?..

Reply 9

yawarm

Ollie, is the grade average one recieves at the end of year 1 percentage based or percentile based thus somewhat equating the difference in difficulty levels between ma100, st102 and their corresponding half credit units?..

basically all your percentages are averaged, so for example my scores were (out of 100) 50, 65, 66, 67 - so the last three were taken and averaged normally to give 66 (a high ish 2:1). if you do half units, they'll just be counted out of 50 so they'll lump two together and give you a score out of 100 which will just be averaged in the same way.

Reply 10

OP

Is there any particular advantage for a&f students to take the full math and stat courses instead of the half unit ones.. it seems well worth using the half units to boost your grade!

thanks for all your help ollie!

Reply 11

yawarm

Is there any particular advantage for a&f students to take the full math and stat courses instead of the half unit ones.. it seems well worth using the half units to boost your grade!

thanks for all your help ollie!

the advantage of doing MA107 and ST107 goes away when u realise that you'll then have to do an outside option - and all the outside options are harder than MA100 and ST102 are. you'll probably end up doing something like MA103 (abstract maths) which is a lot harder, and will then probably regret it. however, if you fancy doing something completely different then the two half units would be best for you. for example, if you have done a-level psychology or sociology then you might want to just do a module of that subject as you will score easily.

ollie :biggrin:

Reply 12

OP

*edit* and after all that I finally decided to stick with EC102 and MA100!

thanks ollie, couldnt have made this decision without your help!

Reply 13

yawarm

Yea..! i took a year out so havn't done any math in the longest time, think I'll just go on with the half units.

In addition, I'd taken A level computing and had quite a bit of programming experience so Information Technology and Society will probably serve as a suitable option!

thanks ollie, couldnt have made this decision without your help!

Yer you should be fine with IS143, plus it has a bit of coursework (40% of your final mark) so that allows you to work a bit more during the year to give you a bit of respite for the exam.

no worries by the way, ollie :biggrin:

Reply 14

ellomoto

Hi Ollie.

I have a question to ask...

1) How many hours on average and (approximately) in total do you spend at uni in one day (lectures, seminars, classes)?

2) How many hours of independant study are you expected to do each day?

3) Do you have to go into uni every day of the week?

Thank you in advance!

:smile:

Reply 15

ellomoto

Hi Ollie.

I have a question to ask...

1) How many hours on average and (approximately) in total do you spend at uni in one day (lectures, seminars, classes)?

2) How many hours of independant study are you expected to do each day?

3) Do you have to go into uni every day of the week?

Thank you in advance!

:smile:

lol the answerbank will start again :biggrin:

1. um... i usually spent 2/3 hours at uni in classes/lectures etc... and the rest of the day lazin in the bar drinkin.

2. hours of independent study.... well you get homework set each week for each module and that can take between 10 mins and a few hours to do, so i'd say you'd be alright for doing a couple of hours a day, somedays you'll just do a few homework sets in the library and then have a few days free.

3. i did, because i had lectures/classes every day, but that was just my timetable. naturally i never went into uni at the weekends.

ollie :biggrin:

Reply 16

ellomoto

olliemccowan

lol the answerbank will start again :biggrin:

1. um... i usually spent 2/3 hours at uni in classes/lectures etc... and the rest of the day lazin in the bar drinkin.

2. hours of independent study.... well you get homework set each week for each module and that can take between 10 mins and a few hours to do, so i'd say you'd be alright for doing a couple of hours a day, somedays you'll just do a few homework sets in the library and then have a few days free.

3. i did, because i had lectures/classes every day, but that was just my timetable. naturally i never went into uni at the weekends.

ollie :biggrin:

Ok cool.

Thanx a lot for your help. Once again.

It's so strange how universities advise their students to do about 40 hours of independant study a week. How the hell could anyone study for that long, in addition to the fact that they have to attend uni!?

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