Advising for next year

1. Advising for next year April 2014 Lynda Thomas

2. All students

3. Who and Why? • Who? • Lynda Thomas: advisor • Patricia Shaw: advisor • cs-exam-advice@aber.ac.uk • 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 preregister on-line by filling in your other choices – MUST BE DONE BY APRIL 11 • It will either: • Be Approved, or • You will get an email with why not • I will have office hours so you can get advice and immediate feedback (B62)

5. Let’s look at the handout Possible things to note (bugs) that I have found so far: • CC394 vs CS394?? • CS237 and CS264 both require CS211 OR CC211 • CS241 requires CS105 or CS204 • People who didn’t do year 1 with us (missing prereq) • Let me know of others ……

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 • Then different core modules will appear

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. 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.

10. 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 on paper • If you are going into year 2 you will obtain your group project allocation in the department • If you are going into year 3 you will be separately advised about your final year project.

11. How do I decide on my options? • This talk and its handout http://www.aber.ac.uk/compsci/Dept/Teaching/ProvReg/ • http://www.aber.ac.uk/schemes • http://www.aber.ac.uk/modules • Talk to the advisor

12. Dates • You will not be able to access your record until Thursday?? • You must have this all done by April 11th • Advisors (ltt in B62 AND phs in Physics 115) will be available most of the time this week and next

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

14. Year 1 students

15. 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

16. 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

17. Resits • Resits are Monday 18/08/14 - Friday 29/08/14 • We do not know exactly when until quite close to the time – so you must keep the WHOLE period free • We send you an email 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 email cs-exam-advice) • This also tells you about resit assignments. • Keep your address and phone up to date, BTW

18. 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

19. Don’t forget this! You cannot raise ‘F’ modules above 40% You only have one resit opportunity (In Part 1 the rules are different)

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

21. Year 2 students

22. A few people who may have problems • People who took a year in US • People who are 2nd year direct entry • A couple of people who talked their way out of CS204 due to previously being in Maths dept YOUR SUBMITTING MAY FAIL • SAVE your choices • Contact me (in person is best) • I’ll try and push through manually

23. 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 2015 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

24. 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.

25. 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. • First point is new this year – ignore gossip from 3rd years

26. 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 email and organise that (it is not an automatice emails from Academic office) • If you fail 30-60 credits you cannot progress until you being the number down. Probably resit in the summer, but you COULD take a year to do them. • If you fail > than 60 credits you MUST resit the year We will email you – if you don’t get an email get in touch

27. Decisions about resits • H resits should always be done – uncapped and if done during summer no charge <<check this>> • 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)

28. Resits • Resits are Monday 18/08/14 - Friday 29/08/14 • We do not know exactly when until quite close to the time – so you must keep the WHOLE period free • The email 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

29. Help? We (cs-exam-advice@aber.ac.uk) send all students an email in July You can also phone or email us – please use general email not specific lecturers’ ones ugfstaff@aber.ac.uk or phone (01970 623111 and ask for AQRO) is the final word on all this

30. 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.

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

32. Not even Here Yet Students • Look in repos Lynda! • http://www.dcs.aber.ac.uk/~repos/Documents/Advising/first_years/