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My friend doing science is really confused about registering for her modules. She picked the no preference option and is wondering why she has to choose her modules so early? she thought you would have a chance to try everything out for a few weeks. Can anyone out there help her please?
She was wrong, I believe the difference between preference and no is that if you go into a preference course, you're pre-registered into the core modules for that pathway, and your options are limited to those insice that pathway. With no preference, you're only preregistered to courses that are common to all pathways, and your options aren't limited - you narrow into a course at either semester or stage 2, I'm not wholly sure.
There's no way to try everything for a few weeks. Best she could do is take a wide range of subjects in stage 1, and then try and narrow the field for semester 2 based on what she enjoys.
For better advice than this (I'm a science graduate, and I read the website, so that's my experience here), she should contact the Science Program Office, or Student Adviser to discuss what she should do.0 -
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anniehilate wrote: »Science too
are you on campus?
finally some science people :-D how's it going with the modules. . . its confusing especially now i think we have to make up our own timetable? i dont have a clue what im at!0 -
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athletics95 wrote: »finally some science people :-D how's it going with the modules. . . its confusing especially now i think we have to make up our own timetable? i dont have a clue what im at!
I used to find it confusing but now I get it depending on which stream you pick (I'm BBB), you basically have to do the four or five compulsory modules, and then you can choose to do as many of the compulsory modules for either 1st year or 2nd year as you like. For example, in BBB there are three of these, two of which you must do in Stage 1 or Stage 2. You can either do both in first year, or one, or leave them both til second year.
After that, you must do any of the conditional modules that are required, depending on your Leaving Cert results. For example, I must also do Introductory Chemistry because I didn't do Chemistry for the Leaving Cert.
Okay, by now you should have around 8-9 modules picked, depending on how many conditional ones you must do. You have to do 12 modules (6 per semester). 10 of these must be science, but 2 can be anything you like, though you can do extra science modules if you wish. So now you can just pick whatever interests you in order to meet the requirements. I hope this makes sense/ is helpful, if you need anything clarified just let me know 0 -
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definitely ! there are so many different ones its really hard to choose
and what's more you don't Really know what you're signing up for...
Exactly! Or who else will be there (not that that should matter, but in a way it does!)
It's very stressful! Thank god all I'm picking is an elective, anything more would be a nightmare!0 -
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anniehilate wrote: »I used to find it confusing but now I get it depending on which stream you pick (I'm BBB), you basically have to do the four or five compulsory modules, and then you can choose to do as many of the compulsory modules for either 1st year or 2nd year as you like. these, )
thank you so much for all the advice. .. what im doing based on that is as many core biology modules as possible in first year, then for my electives im just going to try out two new science and maths subjects. . hope that gives me a good bit of choice next year and is an okay plan!
thanks again, i feel okay about the whole thing now :-) hope you get the modules you want, im doing intro to chemistry too, so see ya there!0 -
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One of my electives is 'provisional', would that explain why it says 'incomplete' in my credits summary?
Yep, your registration won't complete until you have registered all modules successfully - so it wont show as being finished until the electives have been allocated when over subscribed.0 -
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