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first year taken into consideration? (maths)

Does the first year count in Southampton? im talking about maths courses...a few of my friends say that all you have to do to pass in the first year (generally in a uni)..

thanks! :smile:

Reply 1

Mustard-man

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johnheyes91

Does the first year count in Southampton? im talking about maths courses...a few of my friends say that all you have to do to pass in the first year (generally in a uni)..

thanks! :smile:

First year doesn't count. Second year is weighted 40% and third year is weighted 60% :smile:

Edit: You have to average 40% to go onto year two. The modules you don't pass you have to resit.

Reply 2

johnheyes91

OP

cheers! seeing you do econs with actuarial science, do you know anything about the maths and finance course mate?

thanks!

Reply 3

Mustard-man

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johnheyes91

cheers! seeing you do econs with actuarial science, do you know anything about the maths and finance course mate?

thanks!

Erm... I know a bit about the content in the first year of Maths because I originally applied for it and was invited to an informal interview and open day after I had substituted the choice lol. I've got the maths booklet they sent me, so can tell you the structure of the maths and finance course, although I'm sure it's available on their site. Apart from that, I don't know much about the course I'm afraid.

Reply 4

Sarah H

First year maths doesn't come into your final degree classification - you just have to pass (this means passing all core modules, you may get away with compulsory ones). But obviously just passing shouldn't be your target...

First year maths courses for Maths and Finance are generally all the core maths courses maybe plus something more Finance related - I'd have a guess at maybe an economics course or something...I'm not entirely sure and I don't have the course booklet on me at the moment...you tend to get onto specialising in Finance stuff in year 2 (There's one module on Financial Maths in the second year - and have heard it's stupidly hard...apparently only half of last year's group passed)...so yeah...

Reply 5

Mustard-man

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Here's the course outline: http://www.soton.ac.uk/maths/admissions/undergraduate/g1nh_spec.html

The only Maths unit I did was Linear Algebra I (as an option unit), and my God I regretted it :p:

Uni Maths isn't for me; the proofs and theorems were horrible :frown:

Reply 6

Sarah H

Haha, out of pure curiosity - who taught that module Mustard-man?

Cos last year, it was only one Lin.Alg course and now they seemed to have gotten rid of Geometry 1 and split Lin.Alg into 2 :s

Reply 7

johnheyes91

OP

thanks all! i spoke to the head of maths (forgot his name lol!!), seems quite a nice guy. the bloke with the grey hair, not bald, very nice guy..How is he like (in terms of teaching etc..)? I think his name is Professor Fitt

Reply 8

Mustard-man

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Sarah H

Haha, out of pure curiosity - who taught that module Mustard-man?

Cos last year, it was only one Lin.Alg course and now they seemed to have gotten rid of Geometry 1 and split Lin.Alg into 2 :s

Dan Nucinkis. I thought he was pretty good actually. Have you had him before?

Reply 9

flyingpig

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I had Nucinkis in first year for elements. hes a feckin brilliant lecturer. shame about the wife though.
Financial Maths in 2nd year is a challenging course, BUT if you put some time and effort in its pretty straight forward- just learning when to use which formula. its one of those modules where the more practise you get on a type of question the better you are. I much prefer those kinds of modules to the proof ones as I'm no good at thinking for myself, or being able to see a few steps ahead to know where the hell im going with what im doing. still, i passed fine and i didnt exactly work hard all year- managed to pull it up during revision period.

Just as a side-note- is it 40% / 60% as well for people currently in their 2nd year or does it change for the current freshers only?

Reply 10

Mustard-man

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flyingpig

I had Nucinkis in first year for elements. hes a feckin brilliant lecturer. shame about the wife though.
Financial Maths in 2nd year is a challenging course, BUT if you put some time and effort in its pretty straight forward- just learning when to use which formula. its one of those modules where the more practise you get on a type of question the better you are. I much prefer those kinds of modules to the proof ones as I'm no good at thinking for myself, or being able to see a few steps ahead to know where the hell im going with what im doing. still, i passed fine and i didnt exactly work hard all year- managed to pull it up during revision period.

And he has children :wink:

Cool, I've got to do financial maths next year, looking forward to it, haha. I prefer the ones where you have to do tons of practice, unlike proofs where you have to have a deep and solid understanding (which I guess I lacked with linear algebra :p:

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Reply 11

flyingpig

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mustard-man im exactly the same. i don't like thinking for myself lol. i like things like a-level maths wher it was a 'learn and apply the formula jobby!'

Reply 12

Mustard-man

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flyingpig

mustard-man im exactly the same. i don't like thinking for myself lol. i like things like a-level maths wher it was a 'learn and apply the formula jobby!'

Hehe... Yeah, I have to confess, at A-level there were some things I couldn't understand, or bother to put the effort in to understanding. So I would just learn the process off the mark schemes and apply it tons of times on past papers, and voila! :biggrin:

Reply 13

Sarah H

flyingpig

I had Nucinkis in first year for elements. hes a feckin brilliant lecturer. shame about the wife though.

Actually, she isn't all that bad. She only has pacing issues wrt to material covered in a course, too bloody fast!

However, I was mad enough to do Group Theory. :p:

But yeah, Dan Nucinkis is a legend...thought Brodski was a complete nutter with his coke machine theory - but also cool :wink:

first year taken into consideration? (maths)

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