Quiz - Are you ready for the first week?

It’s Wednesday of Welcome Week, I’ve had breakfast, and I’m ready to go….. where exactly?

Get to the maths department as early as possible to get myself organised

Arrive at the maths department in plenty of time to go to the Induction session in MS02.

Go and find your Personal Tutor

I’m a student now… I’ll walk into the Induction session late.

Week 1 of term, my first lecture is Analysis on Tuesday morning… where is it?

In the Zeeman Building

Off the Science Concourse, opposite the Library

Student Union

Ramphal Building

I have a problem with my Supervisor (this is a postgraduate or fourth year student you will be assigned to whom you will meet twice a week to go through assessed material from the lectures). Who do I need to discuss this with first?

Go to the Undergraduate Office

My Personal Tutor

My Supervisor

Director of Undergraduate Studies

I took history for A-level and would like to continue studying some modules from the history department as part of my degree..

Don’t be silly, you’re doing a maths degree

Just register on the Online Module Registration and you’re ready to go

Discuss with my tutor and then fill in an Unusual Option Form available from outside the Undergraduate Office

Go along to the lectures, and then at the end of term fill in an Unusual Option Form.

What 3 things below can I do in the Undergraduate Office?

Ask about my Student Loan and Tuition Fees

Buy printed lecture notes

Pick up an Unusual Option Form

Pick up a Change of Degree form

Ask about where to go with a problem

Hand in medical evidence if you have missed an assessment or considerable number of lectures due to illness

I have a question about regulations, place the sources of help below in the order you should consult them.

Online handbook
Personal Tutor
Undergraduate Office
Email Director of Undergraduate Studies

It’s daytime and my University card won’t let me through a door into the maths department?

Keep trying, it will work eventually

Go through the main entrance past the Undergraduate Office

Knock on the door until someone comes

Match the modules below to their status using online information.

MA133 Differential Equations
LL117 German 1
MA125 Introduction to Geometry
PX148 Classical Mechanics and Special Relativity

Unusual Option
List A
Core
List B

Everything’s going horribly wrong! I’m falling behind on work and/or I am being affected by a serious medical or other problem.

Pull yourself together and just get on with your studies! Things are bound to get better.

Go to the Undergraduate Office

Go directly to the Senior Tutor or Director of Undergraduate Studies

Go to your Personal Tutor

I want to do 160 CATS of modules this year, can I?

No, the maximum is 150 CATS

No, I have to do the Normal Load of 120 CATS

Yes, great idea!

It’s 10 minutes before the deadline for a weekly assignment and I haven’t finished it completely, what do I do?

Copy my friends’ work and hand it in before the deadline

Hand it in half an hour late and lose a few marks for doing so

Hand in what I have done before the deadline

Don’t bother handing it in, I don’t want to look stupid.

There is an important deadline coming up, how will I be reminded about it?

I will get a letter in my pigeon hole to remind me.

I check my University email account regularly, so will read the email sent out.

My Personal Tutor or the Undergraduate Office will keep reminding me.

Important deadline? If it’s that important I will be allowed to do whatever it is even after the deadline.

Which of these things do I need to have done before the end of the first week?

Met my Personal Tutor

Met my Supervisor

Made my final choice of modules for the year

Started going to my lectures

Phoned home

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