[Boudica]

I have two that I found difficult for very different reasons.

First, Extended Project - Dissertation that I did in my last year of high school. It was a self directed class and I ended up writing 14000 words for that bitch of a paper.

Secondly, Fine Art Coursework - My whole life. It's what I specialise in and love, but it's fucking difficult since the main difficulty is that you have to be good at being intuitive and solving problems of physics and measurements and practicalities of transport and storage and health and safety/ethics and ensuring that actually, every piece of work you do is of a good standard since the marks you get are based on EVERYTHING you have done. Nothing is left out.

[Nil]

It's been pretty good actually. I generally haven't had to due a whole lot of essays. Reports, Observations, etc sure - but thats usually based around a practical assessment piece. But that might be the difference between CS and IT degrees? Im doing IT. Only in a 2 courses Have I done ~100 page reports but those were both done in groups of 4.

Ohh, I forgot you weren't CS. I can't say the papers are all too bad. I never liked being forced to write papers on things I wasn't interested in. At least now I can either choose my topic or find one throughout a large textbook which is pretty helpful in getting a deeper understanding of a particular topic, rather than BS'ing papers which I'd normally like to do. The downside is that a few of these classes have absurd deadlines so you're writing papers weekly and it's hard to learn a new topic and present your research so quickly.

It was. The course itself was probably only 40% on Cryptography. By large the single largest topic being taught in the class though. So between all the other material and the cryptography I came out with an alright grade. not a great grade, but nowhere near a fail or anything. about 70% if you would.

At least you stuck with it. Although I know that getting a D in a major course doesn't count as credit so I hope you were able to pull out a C or more.

I have two that I found difficult for very different reasons.

First, Extended Project - Dissertation that I did in my last year of high school. It was a self directed class and I ended up writing 14000 words for that bitch of a paper.

Secondly, Fine Art Coursework - My whole life. It's what I specialise in and love, but it's fucking difficult since the main difficulty is that you have to be good at being intuitive and solving problems of physics and measurements and practicalities of transport and storage and health and safety/ethics and ensuring that actually, every piece of work you do is of a good standard since the marks you get are based on EVERYTHING you have done. Nothing is left out.

The second one sounds different. I'm not quite sure what kind of work you were actually doing. If you have a description of that class I'd like to hear it.

[The Real Slim Shady]

Ohh, I forgot you weren't CS. I can't say the papers are all too bad. I never liked being forced to write papers on things I wasn't interested in. At least now I can either choose my topic or find one throughout a large textbook which is pretty helpful in getting a deeper understanding of a particular topic, rather than BS'ing papers which I'd normally like to do. The downside is that a few of these classes have absurd deadlines so you're writing papers weekly and it's hard to learn a new topic and present your research so quickly.

Ya i know what this is like. There was one weekend where I had 1 major assessment due on Friday, and 2 due on Sunday. Plus a weekly thing due on Friday, and a weekly thing due on Sunday. So 5 things due on the weekend. Have i mentioned that I work Friday, Saturday, and Sunday? it was not pleasant lol.

At least you stuck with it. Although I know that getting a D in a major course doesn't count as credit so I hope you were able to pull out a C or more.

Here a pass is 50%. You get 50% you get a credit lol. I got around 70%. Or what is known as a "5" grade. "4" is the lowest Passing grade, "7" is the best possible grade. Most people average around 5-6 in their courses here. I got a 5 for this course. My last 3 courses got 6,6,7's. So im not a horrible student or anything lol.

[ImmNinjaxD]

Here a pass is 50%. You get 50% you get a credit lol. I got around 70%.

You either go to a cool university, or you don't go to school in America. Below a 70% is considered failing here (well, 65%-69% is a D, 0%-50% is an F)

[Nil]

Ya i know what this is like. There was one weekend where I had 1 major assessment due on Friday, and 2 due on Sunday. Plus a weekly thing due on Friday, and a weekly thing due on Sunday. So 5 things due on the weekend. Have i mentioned that I work Friday, Saturday, and Sunday? it was not pleasant lol.

Not pleasant at all. Professors that make things due on weekends all the time don't like college students.

Here a pass is 50%. You get 50% you get a credit lol. I got around 70%. Or what is known as a "5" grade. "4" is the lowest Passing grade, "7" is the best possible grade. Most people average around 5-6 in their courses here. I got a 5 for this course. My last 3 courses got 6,6,7's. So im not a horrible student or anything lol.

That's the first I've heard of this. I thought you went to school in America but it's cool to see how other places grade students. It seems like a very forgiving system.

[The Real Slim Shady]

You either go to a cool university, or you don't go to school in America. Below a 70% is considered failing here (well, 65%-69% is a D, 0%-50% is an F)

That's the first I've heard of this. I thought you went to school in America but it's cool to see how other places grade students. It seems like a very forgiving system.

Nope. Don't go to uni in America. I've been to Uni in Canada and Australia though. To my knowledge 50% is pretty standard in Australian universities. doesn't vary much. If you got 50% in every course you'd get a degree. but you'd have a horrible GPA and not entirely sure anyone would hire you. If I had a GPA of 4 i'd feel like i'd have wasted my time and money on university.

In canada 55-65% is a pass depending on the university. 65% is on the higher end though. as in the tough to get into/high class schools tend to do the 65% thing.but at a lot of universities you can get a degree with 55%'s lol

70% seems high to me. while most of my courses have achieved above that... there would definitely be a few i'd need to redo if a passing grade was that high lol

[Nil]

Nope. Don't go to uni in America. I've been to Uni in Canada and Australia though. To my knowledge 50% is pretty standard in Australian universities. doesn't vary much. If you got 50% in every course you'd get a degree. but you'd have a horrible GPA and not entirely sure anyone would hire you. If I had a GPA of 4 i'd feel like i'd have wasted my time and money on university.

In canada 55-65% is a pass depending on the university. 65% is on the higher end though. as in the tough to get into/high class schools tend to do the 65% thing.but at a lot of universities you can get a degree with 55%'s lol

70% seems high to me. while most of my courses have achieved above that... there would definitely be a few i'd need to redo if a passing grade was that high lol

How many points are taken off on assignments for mistakes must differ greatly then to make up for it. Because I'm usually pretty disappointed in myself if I get in the 70%'s. Also, GPA here doesn't really mean much unless you plan on going to graduate school.

[The Real Slim Shady]

How many points are taken off on assignments for mistakes must differ greatly then to make up for it. Because I'm usually pretty disappointed in myself if I get in the 70%'s. Also, GPA here doesn't really mean much unless you plan on going to graduate school.

Oh I'm disappointed if I get in the 70's as well I definitely want higher marks than that.

GPA isn't a lifelong issue... but graduate positions can be limited, and fiercely competitive. Would your first employer, sans much industry experience, prefer to hire the person with the 4.0 GPA? or the 6.0-7.0 GPA? It might be the difference between starting out at 45-50k a year in a small business or 60-65k a year in a coveted position at one of the major enterprises (and yes both those numbers will sound high for an entry level position to an American... but the economy here is different. The minimum wage 18$ an hour. some entry level non uni jobs pay as much as 25-30$ an hour for retail crap.)

[Bish0pQ]

For me right now it's data analysis, i hate creating schemes because i'm not creative at all. Stupid dfd's

[Rick]

I got put into "Additional Mathematics" classes when I was 14-15

That shit was genuinely impossible. I got a C, but thankfully it was a standalone course that lasted 1 year and didn't count for anything apart from mostly preparing me for doing more maths.

The specification had 4 areas:
Algebra, Co-Ordinate Geometry, Trigonometry, Calculus

That doesn't seem like much but the amount of depth that went into each area was ridiculous.

Eg. Learning Definite, Indefinite 'dy' 'u' integrals and applied calculus in mechanics was the calulus section. That was one of the easier sections.

Thank fuck I did it though, I'd be struggling like hell now otherwise.