ALSO, check out V'Day flower sales (a fundraiser organised by NUS TDC)—for those expecting a valentine, buying V'Day flowers on 14 Feb itself (or even a few days before) from florists often means paying a hiked-up price as vendors charge higher. Pre-ordering from the fundraiser now means locking in a significantly discounted price!

If you (or your friends/siblings) are looking to get an iPad or MacBook in uni, check out this deal to max out your student benefits! Using the link from @ThisCounted (a student-run channel that shares the best student deals), you get both the usual Apple Back to School Promo’s benefit (free AirPods when you get a MacBook/free Apple Pencil when you get an iPad) and a gift card/cash bonus valued at up to $30!

Note that this bonus benefit is only available this week (closing on 1 July) and is the biggest student deal for Apple products! (Do share this with your peers too!)

Apple’s Back to School promotion is back!  💻

🟢 Maximise your student benefits with ThisCounted’s exclusive partnership link — Get bonus gift card/cash on top of Apple’s bundle offer of AirPods with Mac or Apple Pencil with iPad

📒 Purchases must be through our unique link: bit.ly/ThisCounted

📘  Bonus gift cards or cash valued at up to $30 (with min. guaranteed value of $10) is on top of Apple’s bundle offer of AirPods with Mac or Apple Pencil with iPad!

📒 Ensure that you’re using ThisCounted’s link ( bit.ly/ThisCounted ) when making your purchase; after student/staff status verification, enter our link again (UniDAYs may redirect you incorrectly, so just re-enter our link after student/staff status verification, i.e. re-enter the link again when actually checking out) 

📘 T&C apply (refer to image and Apple’s T&C)

🔴 Bonus gift cards/cash only for those who make verified purchases through ThisCounted’s link by 1 July

Questions? Reach out to us at ThisCountedBiz@gmail.com

This closes tonight! Do find the bonus gift card/cash claims form in the channel: https://t.me/ThisCounted/1111

CourseReg calendar: https://www.nus.edu.sg/CourseReg/docs/UGCPE_CourseRegSchedule.pdf

Reminder that Academic Plan Declaration ends on 19 Aug (5 p.m.)!

Here’s a tip applicable to some:
- When “bidding” for courses later on, priority is given based on various factors, such as seniority. One factor that gives you priority over someone else for course selection is actually what your declared major/minor is, and whether that course is tied to it.

Since academic declaration resets every semester, some students take advantage of this. Some see this as a loop-hole (i.e. declaring something as your intended second major just so you have priority for its modules—even if in truth, one hasn't decided to take that as a second major/minor)

E.g. if you are from NUS CHS, and are planning to major in e.g. Sociology, but just want to take an economics module as a UE/for exploration, you would probably “lose” to students when trying to bid for the economics introductory module when you are competing against those who have declared themselves to be Economics majors or even those who declared they’d second major/minor in economics. In this case, some might take advantage of the Academic Plan Declaration by declaring “Economics” as one’s second major/minor to ensure they can get the introductory economics module, even though the truth is they just want to take the economics introductory module for exploration/as a UE.
—> in fact, supposing that it is extremely easy to get the modules for Sociology (in the above example, where it’s one’s actual intended first major) compared to Economics (just an example), what has been strategic to some is to just declare their first major as “Economics” (the major with courses harder to successfully bid for) and the second major as “Sociology” (the one that e.g. is easier to bid for). This helps them to more likely secure the hard-to-get course whilst still getting the easy-to-get course.

The above is just a guide for those who are still unsure about what they want to do—let the above be assurance that it’s entirely fine to declare something and then change your declaration in another semester! I.e. if there’s a module hard to bid for that you wanted to take just to try out before deciding if you want to second major in it, you’re probably wiser to just declare that you are first—you can always change your mind later when it’s acad plan declaration in the subsequent sem!

P.S. MykeGuide will now be @NUSguide as we continue to share uni tips for NUS students (both current and incoming!) 🎓🙌🏻

Do share our channel @NUSguide with your friends and juniors!

**the deadline for acad plan declaration is 19 August (not July)!

However, you are recommended to submit academic declaration ahead of time for module pre-allocation/module priority (since CourseReg Round 1 starts on 22 July) 🫡

https://courserekt.vercel.app/

you can find past year demand/allocation info here which may be helpful when you want to strategise your course preferences! (typically, courses which often have excess vacancies don’t have to be as heavily prioritised during bidding—one may be able to afford to rank this lower).

Reminder that coursereg closes in about 20 mins (1 p.m.)!

^ forwarded message! Especially for incoming freshies, you may be keen on getting this classic NUS shirt from this official student fundraiser!

Edurec > academics > view classes

^ by now, you should have got your courses from prev rounds out! For modules with different tutorial slots, you’ll only see their timings next time (after tutorial bidding).

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For freshies, y’all would probably may already hit the maximum workload. Some students do request for a waiver to be able to exceed the usual workload—you can appeal for this if you believe you can handle taking additional modules. If you want this, you may want to do this before the next coursereg round that’s coming up!

Some students do this to try to graduate earlier (you could save on one sem of uni fees and graduate earlier by overloading in multiple sems), or to simply have a more relaxed y3/y4, or to take advantage of the S/U system.

For the latter:

Total number of S/Us in uni: 32 units (“8 modules” usually)

Of these 32 units, 12 units (“3 mods”) can be used in y2 and onwards, while the other 20 units (5 mods), if you want to fully utilise them, must be used in y1.

So for students who expect to S/U a lot, they intentionally take more modules which they find either hard or “useless” in y1, where they can S/U more modules, instead of taking these modules in y2 where they can only S/U up to three modules.

(This applies to seniors too):
Also, if you drop a module before Week 3, there’s no record of it at all. Additionally, if you drop a module before recess week (the mid-point of the semester), you get a W grade which although reflected on the transcript, has no effect on your GPA.

So if you just want to maximise your GPA but aren’t super sure where your strengths lie, there’s no real harm bidding for excess modules and then dropping what you don’t feel a penchant for.

Dean’s List tip: for seniors (bc freshies aren’t eligible except for SOC) aiming for DL, it’s often more about being strategic with what mods you take in a semester. You’d likely want it to be a sem with only modules you are strong at. If you aren’t sure, that’s when bidding in excess to try out, and then later dropping those you aren’t confident in get A/A+ for, may be strategic.

[share @NUSguide with your friends/juniors if you find these helpful! 🙌🏻]