University of Glasgow blether thread

If they don't like it they'll take another one, but I think they'll have a hard time caring.

Trust me you'll be nervous for a wee while and that's absolutely normal but remember everyone else is in same situation and no one is scary! Soon it'll feel like home

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I look forward to that, since I'll be there for the forseeable future it's a big thing to me! But you've really helped, thanking you Now I can feel a little more excitement rather than dread about moving up next week ahaha.

Does anyone know if 1st years get reading lists? And if so where I can find them for my particular course? It's getting pretty close to me moving up to Glasgow and I feel really unprepared in terms of course content and what I'll be learning, I'm going to be in life sciences (applied for neuroscience)

You'll get them in intro lectures at start of term, really no need to worry, they don't expect you to be prepped

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Does anyone know if 1st years get reading lists? And if so where I can find them for my particular course? It's getting pretty close to me moving up to Glasgow and I feel really unprepared in terms of course content and what I'll be learning, I'm going to be in life sciences (applied for neuroscience)

Does anyone know if 1st years get reading lists? And if so where I can find them for my particular course? It's getting pretty close to me moving up to Glasgow and I feel really unprepared in terms of course content and what I'll be learning, I'm going to be in life sciences (applied for neuroscience)

What date did term start in 2010?

I wasn't sure if it was the 13th or the 6th but I think 13th makes more sense.

So 20th was day one?

Can anyone tell me how the GPA works throughout a degree?
On a 5 year undergraduate masters (MEng) where the first two years don't count towards anything does it then get reset at the start of 3rd year or is it carried over?

I know this was 3 weeks ago, but if you're still interested... it gets reset in the sense that your final degree classification won't be affected by 1st and 2nd degree marks, but the marks remain on your internet record and as far as I know on your transcript. Though with a MEng it'll be superceded by your result from your Masters year - I know my brother never got an official 1st, 2.1, 2.2 or whatever from the Bachelor's part but rather got his Merit or whatever it was after Masters.

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Anyone ever made a complaint about a course and actually had anything done about it? Doing a course this year that's an absolute joke, too late for me but want to know if there's a way of saving next year's lot :/

It's unlikely. Most of my courses have had some sort of questionnaire at the end of the year (in which complaints appear to be ignored) and obviously the SRC can't help you.

Had some changes put through, and we actually managed to persuade our department to scrap their plans to make both essays compulsory this year (rather than the chance to submit two with higher mark counting but only have to submit one)

English? I have a friend who was quite excited about that

Shame, it's so abysmal that I get irritated just thinking about it. It's the kind of course which is so irredeemable, they should just cancel it. Apparently it got *loads* of complaints last year, so I figured they might have done something, but no such luck!

I'm sure this has been answered multiple times in the thread, but how lenient is Glasgow on not meeting offers when it comes to a social science course?