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

Academic plan declaration is on 19 July!

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 are known to take advantage of this. Thus, do take the academic declaration seriously.

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 you 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!

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If you would like a student concession card, you can start applying here:
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As it isn’t free, this will probably be most beneficial if you are expecting to travel a lot when school starts!
You can use this link to do a rough calculation of your travel costs to and fro school and consider whether paying for a monthly concession card provides significantly more savings or not: https://www.lta.gov.sg/content/ltagov/en/map/fare-calculator.html

Just a quick blast on behalf of NUS KEVII Hall’s orientation comm! For those who were accepted into NUS KEVII Hall, do check your email to check for the orientation camp’s sign-up link!

Note that camp sign-up closes on 13 July 2359

P.S. note that it closes today 2359; it was extended to tonight!

Also, for those who joined this channel a lil later and didn't see this, do rmb to join the groups here!!

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Also, reminder that tmr is academic declaration (for NUS)!

^^ read this tip for acad plan declaration!

Also, additional tip: for 'restricted' second majors/minors (these are the ones you can't directly declare), some of these require you to e.g. take a certain number of the relevant courses before you can declare them. If you think about it, that can be a bit of a chicken and egg problem (you need to declare it to be your second major/minor to have priority to be able to bid for these courses, but at the same time, you need to have taken a few of these courses before you can even declare it to be your second major/minor). This often results in people who want to declare these as second major/minor in future being unable to get the courses needed to even be eligible to declare it on time.

For instance, in my personal experience, when I wanted to get a second major in management (aka second major in biz), it required you to take ~four business courses (do read up on which exact four are eligible to count) before you can declare it as second major. However, securing these courses in the first place is challenging when you do not already have it declared (since actual business students get priority). Many students fail to declare a Second Major in Management because of this (the requirement is to declare before end of y2, but many fail to even secure the required courses by then).

A loophole I thought of (not that we are recommending loopholes, of course) is to declare a second major/minor in something else that isn’t ‘restricted’ but has common courses. In this case, an example is a Minor in Entrepreneurship. Anyone can declare they are going to minor in Entrepreneurship, unlike minoring/second majoring in Management. So what you can do is declare a minor in entrepreneurship first, get a slight priority for some courses like BSP1702, MNO1706, MKT1705, ACC1701 (and many more courses which are also possible prerequisites to declare a minor/second major in management), be more likely to secure the needed courses, and then in future semesters it may be easier to declare a second major/minor in Management having secured the needed courses to declare it.


If you found these tips/updates so far helpful, do share this channel @NUSguide with your friends!! 🙌

Reminder to do your coursereg if you haven’t!

Note that if you didn’t do academic plan declaration, then your course pre-allocation (if you’re supposed to have preallocated courses) may be affected. If you declare late, it would also take some time before preallocation happens.

Hi everyone! Below is a message on the balloting process which isn’t by us, but has been passed down by various NUS seniors! Note that “courses” used to be referred to as “mods”:

“Balloting process

How to ballot like a senior
(by sam chan)

First, here is how the balloting works:
- you rank up to 20 tutorial slots according to your preference, with the slots you want more ranked higher
- you do not have to use all 20, and in fact you can just put one tutorial slot per mod
- the system looks at your first choice, checks the tutorial class, and if there are vacancies, you're in!
- the process then repeats for your second, third choice etc. until you have tutorials for all your mods, or you have no viable options left (i.e. all your preferred tutorials are full)
- it's quite by luck in the sense that if you're the 26th person the system sees for a 25-person class, you don't get it, even if you put it as first choice. hence the term balloting. IT IS NOT FIRST COME FIRST SERVE!

Now that you know how balloting roughly works, here are some pointers!

1. Plan for multiple timetables
- needless to say we all have that one tutorial slot we want (for free day, with friends, both, etc.), however it would be terribly unwise to not have any backup plans/tutorial slots. having three choices per mod is a safe number, although you can go up to 4 per mod (equal distribution among 5 mods) or any number really (unequal distribution)

2. Know your preferences
- even among your first choice tutorial slots for your modules, it's good to know which are the ones you want the most
- generally you get your first three choices, while anything after that is more risky, so you need to priorities which are the ones you diedie must get, and hence rank first

3. Know that certain tutorial slots are more popular
- generally tutorial slots from 10-4 are the more popular ones
- likewise for those on the same day as the lecture for that mod
- you might want to rank these slots higher
- this is more for your knowledge, but if you plan to take this tutorial with say >5 friends, some of you might not get it

Keeping these pointers in mind, you ballot! And here's now:
(note: you don't have to follow this method but I find it really helpful. also, it's based on the assumption that one has 5 mods to ballot for)

1) Note down the tutorial slots you want on a piece of paper (virtual or otherwise) according to your modules, while ranking them at the same time.
- you should have 5 columns of 4 tutorial slots each (assuming equal distribution), already in order of preference

2) Double check the timings and the tutorial number (eg. D3, E5, etc.)

3) Rank all your tutorial slots in a flop-table style (MOST IMPORTANT STEP). This might require some explanation, so bear with me.

Let's say your 5 mods are called 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, and it's according to the mod which first-choice tutorial slot you want the most
Each mod has 4 tutorial slots, called A, B, C, and D according to your preference.

Here's how your ranking would look like then:

1A
2A
3A
4A
5A
5B
4B
3B
2B
1B
1C
2C
3C
4C
5C
5D
4D
3D
2D
1D

Basically you "reflect" your mods. Since you're quite likely to get your choices for 1, 2, and 3, but less so for 4, and 5, your sixth and seventh choices should be the second-choice for mods 4 and 5 to increase your chances of getting what you want.

4) Finally, don't panic if you don't have any tutorial slots! There is always add/drop and online swaps, and worst case manual registration. It's all part of student life! But if you follow the above, it's less likely to happen (: “

You might also want to check out the pinned group compilation @NUSguide because groups are often used for tutorial swapping!