1. Advising for next year
April 2016
Patricia Shaw
Lynda Thomas

2. All students

3. Who and Why? Who? Why? Patricia Shaw: advisor Lynda Thomas: advisor
Why?
So you can skip the madness in the Arts Centre
Timetabling

4. The procedure:
You will be advised on your student record what to do. Your record will be automatically filled in with the core modules for your scheme
This week is mostly for consultation
From Thursday you can pre-register on-line by filling in your other choices – MUST BE DONE BY FRIDAY APRIL 22ND
It will either:
Be Approved, or
You will get an with why not
We will have office hours so you can get advice and immediate feedback (Physics 126 and B62)

5. Common Problems Possible things to note that we have found so far:
CC vs CS??
People who didn’t do year 1 with us (missing pre- req)
Credit balance 60:60

6. Remember:
You can always change things up at the Arts Centre in September!
Or over summer
Or in first 3 weeks of semester

7. What if I want to change scheme?
See the advisor, who will approve your change and update your record
DO THIS BEFORE COMPLETING PROVISIONAL REGISTRATION
Then different core modules will appear
H602/3 Internet Computing and G500/1 Business IT have less programming
See

8. If you are not sure
Pick the most hard and restrictive modules/scheme and attend MORE things for a week or so
So, not sure if CS or Internet Computing?
Stay with CS
pick modules for IC as far as you can
Attend the extra modules that IC would need
If you decide CS211 is not your thing you can easily slip into IC after 2 weeks – you have 3 weeks

9. What happens in September?
You will access your registration once on campus and either:
Confirm it is correct
Decide to make changes, in which case you either:
Go through the ‘Arts Centre’ process OR
See advisor in first 3 weeks and fix online
If you are going into year 2, group project has moved to second semester
If you are going into year 3, final year project in second semester, with advice on selection process in first semester

10. How do I decide on my options?
This talk and its handout
Talk to the advisers

11. Dates
You will not be able to do anything with your record until Thursday (but you can see it now)
You must have this all done by April 22nd
Advisors (ltt in B62 AND phs in Physics 126) will be available most of the time this week and next

12. What if I don’t do it?
You will probably get lots and lots of reminders
Better to just do something and FIX at start of year
You can go through the ‘Arts Centre’ process as a last resort

13. Foundation students

14. Passing the year Your marks will be on your student record
Overall average of 40%
remember credit weightings
you need an average over 12 "marks"
Must pass 100 credits of the 120 credits you take

15. What if I don’t pass 100 credits?
If you fail between 30 and 60 credits
Summer resits – next slide
If you fail more than 60 credits
Must resit the year – consider seriously if CS is for you

16. Resits Resits are last 2 weeks in August
We do not know exactly when until quite close to the time – so you must keep the WHOLE period free
We send you an of advice about what you need to do when results come out.
Wait until you get that to contact us. (But if nothing comes in a few days then cs-exam-advice)
This also tells you about resit assignments.
Keep your address and phone up to date, BTW

17. Entering Part 1 (year 1)
Assuming you progress, you will join the 'first year'
Core modules the same as those for G400 – Computer Science

18. Let’s look at the handout
Late breaking suggestions for electives not in CS:
PH19510 Chaos Communications and Consciousness
IC10210 Academic Writing
Let us know of others ……

19. Good Luck on your exams!
Any questions cs-exam-advice

21. Year 1 students

22. Passing the year Your marks will be on your student record
Overall average of 40%
remember credit weightings
you need an average over 12 "marks"
Must pass 100 credits of the 120 credits you take

23. What if I don’t pass 100 credits?
If you fail between 30 and 60 credits
Summer resits – next slide
If you fail more than 60 credits
Must resit the year – consider seriously if CS is for you

24. Resits Resits are last 2 weeks in August
We do not know exactly when until quite close to the time – so you must keep the WHOLE period free
We send you an of advice about what you need to do when results come out.
Wait until you get that to contact us. (But if nothing comes in a few days then cs-exam-advice)
This also tells you about resit assignments.
Keep your address and phone up to date, BTW

25. Entering Part 2 (years 2 and 3)
Assuming you progress, everything from September on counts towards your degree
Rules for getting a degree –
must pass 220 of the 240 credits in Part 2
You cannot raise ‘F’ modules above 40%
You only have one resit opportunity

26. Let’s look at the handout
Late breaking suggestions for electives not in CS:
IL32410 Management Information Systems
IL33010 Business Systems Analysis
IL32520 Management of Organisations
MP35610 Quantum info theory
ED20120 Psych of Learning and Thinking
FM32420 Surveillance society (sem 2)
FM25520 Digital Culture (sem 2)
ED33020 Communicating Science (sem 2)
Let us know of others ……

27. Good Luck on your exams!
Any questions cs-exam-advice

29. Year 2 students

30. A few people who may have problems
People who took a year in US
People who were 2nd year direct entry
YOUR SUBMITTING MAY FAIL
SAVE your choices
Contact Lynda or Patricia (in person is best)
We’ll try and push through manually

31. What if I am going on industrial year?
You need not do anything this year because your record will automatically be filled in – but pay attention now!
While you are out you will be told to pre-register for 2017 and you will be able to do it on-line or
Wait until September (I don’t advise this)
Better to just do something and FIX at start of year

32. Warning! When they ask you if you are taking a ‘YES’ placement say NO
This is not the same as our industrial year – the system can tell whether you are having an industrial year from your scheme.
This is mainly for people in other departments.

33. What about passing/failing/resits?
You must pass 220 of the 240 credits in Part 2
You must take at least 120 credits at the level of the award i.e. level 3 for BSc and BEng, level M for MEng.

34. What does that mean for this year?
If you fail nothing, great!
If you fail 20 credits or less, you can go into the 3rd or industrial year but you should resit:
in the summer, or possibly
when you come back but I would not advise that, or
Next summer – but you will have to and organise that (it is not an automatic from Academic office)
If you fail credits you cannot progress until you bring the number down. Probably resit in the summer, but you COULD take a year to do them.
If you fail > than 60 credits you could resit the year on a clean slate
We will you – if you don’t get an get in touch

35. Decisions about resits
H resits should always be done – uncapped and if done during summer no charge
It is possible to resit:
In the summer
During the next year while a student or Sandwich student
Taking an extra year
There are 2 forms of resit:
externally (just do assessments) or
internally (lectures etc. may make substitutions for non-core modules)

36. Resits Resits are in last 2 weeks of August
We do not know exactly when until quite close to the time – so you must keep the WHOLE period free
The we send will tell you about resit assignments – most modules you resit just the bits you failed – but check
Keep your address and phone up to date, BTW

37. Let’s look at the handout
Late breaking suggestions for electives not in CS:
IL32410 Management Information Systems
IL33010 Business Systems Analysis
IL32520 Management of Organisations
MP35610 Quantum info theory
FM32420 Surveillance society (sem 2)
ED33020 Communicating Science (sem 2)
Let us know of others ……

38. Help?
We send all students an in July
You can also phone or us – please use general not specific lecturers’ ones
or phone ( and ask for AQRO) is the final word on all this

39. Don’t forget! You cannot raise ‘F’ modules above 40%
You only have one resit opportunity
In theory it may be possible to throw away your second year and redo it, but that is mainly for people who have been on the ‘wrong’ scheme. If you think that you want to do this you would have to convince Chris Price.

40. Good Luck on your exams!
Any questions cs-exam-advice

42. Not even Here Yet Students
Look in repos Lynda!
/Advising/first_years/