For first year students, beginning your university career can feel like a big change, particularly when you go from sitting in a classroom with a small number of your classmates to suddenly spending most of your time attending lectures in large theatres with several hundred students.
This is why first year undergraduates receive comprehensive support – delivered through Personal Tutor groups, and through regular meetings with Supervisors, which you and four of your peers will attend together, and assignments for credit.
As you progress through your degree, the type of support you receive changes as you become a more independent learner. At this point in your university career, if there is something you don't understand then you have learnt many of the tools to find resources to help, and to tackle the problem in a systematic manner
- In the second year, core modules will have approximately fortnightly assignments for credit, support classes and will be supported by the mathXchange.
- By the third year most modules will have only support classes, some will have assignments for credit.
- Fourth year modules will also sometimes have support classes and will sometimes have assignments for credit, but this is not always the case.
Throughout this time your Personal Tutor will also be there to help you, although once you reach the third year they might be less familiar with specific modules if those topics are not in their own research areas. We try to keep you with the same Personal Tutor throughout your degree if we can, but this is often not possible - for example, if the tutor takes research leave.
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