First Year Mathematics and Statistics
Frequently asked questions
No. You must sit the quiz in the tutorial in which you are enrolled.
You are enrolled in a particular tutorial if and only if your name is typed
on the roll for that tutorial.
If you sit the quiz in a tutorial in which
you are not enrolled your mark cannot be recorded.
Please see the next question
if you are unable to attend your timetabled tutorial.
If you have a legitimate reason for not being able to sit the quiz in the
correct tutorial, then you must go to the Student Office (Carslaw room 520) and ask
if an alternative arrangement can be made. You should do this well in advance of your
timetabled tutorial.
Note that if you sit the quiz in a tutorial in which
you are not enrolled, without having made an arrangement with the Student Office, then your
mark cannot be recorded.
If you know that you will miss a quiz due to a sporting or other community commitment,
then you must go to the Student Office (Carslaw room 520) and see if an alternative
arrangement can be made. If an alternative
arrangement is not possible, then you must
submit a
special arrangements form at least 7 days before the date of your quiz.
If you miss a quiz due to illness or misadventure on the day of the quiz,
you should go to the Student Office (Carslaw room 520) as soon as possible afterwards.
If you have a legitimate reason for having missed your tutorial, then
it may be possible for you to sit the quiz
at another time.
If it is not possible for you to sit the quiz at another time, then you
may be eligible to apply for special consideration.
See the School's
special consideration policy.
If the unit of study you have failed is a necessary requirement for your degree then you will need to repeat
it. You can repeat the unit in summer school, or in semester 1 next year.
It is not possible to re-sit the exam, nor are there any circumstances under which your mark can be changed to
a pass.
No. Concessional passes are not awarded in any mathematics units of study.
Lecturers in a particular unit of study may or may not release solutions to past papers.
If solutions are released, they will be posted on the unit webpage. Any enquiries about
the release or otherwise of solutions should be made directly to your lecturer.
If serious illness or misadventure during the week before the due date
prevents you from submitting an assignment on the due
date then you may request an extension. Unless there are exceptional
circumstances any application for an extension must be made before the
submission date. An application for an extension is made by submitting a special
consideration form.
Late assignments will only be accepted if you have an approved extension, or in the
following circumstance:
Should you be ill on the due date only, and unable to submit your assignment, then you
may submit it the following day, accompanied by a special
consideration form and supporting documentation.
Exemptions from submission of assignments are not generally
granted.
Forms can be downloaded
here , or obtained from the
Faculty of Science student enquiry counter on Carslaw level 2.
You must read the
Special Consideration Policy before submitting a form.
You will receive an email (to your University email address) from the Faculty of Science
within approximately two weeks from the date you submitted the application.
The Junior Handbook has course descriptions for
all units.
Also, each unit has its own website, which can be accessed from the
Junior Mathematics webpage. There is an information sheet for
each unit, available from the unit webpage. The information sheet includes (for example)
details of the assessment procedure, dates of assessment tasks and a week-by-week outline
of the course material.
The timetable for each unit
is displayed on the web page for that unit.
No. You may only attend the tutorial to which you have been allocated.
Please see the next question if you wish to change your tutorial time.
All first year mathematics tutorials are currently full, and so it will be almost impossible
to change your tutorial time.
It is possible that spaces may become available in some tutorials after a few weeks.
If you are unable to change your tutorial time now, then you may be able to later, via the following procedure:
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Choose a tutorial time that suits you.
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Go to that tutorial and ask the tutor if you may join his or her tutorial.
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If the tutor allows you to join the tutorial, check that
your name appears, typed, on the tutor's printed roll when you attend the tutorial
the following week.
Note that tutors will not allow you to join a tutorial if it is already full.
Writing your name on the roll does not enrol you in the tutorial.
Kopystop is a shop at 55 Mountain St Broadway. Kopystop sells all course notes that are published
by the School of Mathematics and Statistics.
The Faculty of Science attendance policy may be found on page 7 of the Faculty of Science Handbook.
In practice, the School of Mathematics and Statistics will not
fail a student merely on the grounds of poor attendance.
However, tutorial attendance is recorded
and a student's attendance record is taken into account when assessing
any request for Special Consideration.
Lecturers are available to help you at specified consultation times. The times are given
in the unit's information sheet. If you need help because you do not have the
necessary mathematical background for your unit of study you may attend the
Mathematics Learning Centre.
Only if your tutor has indicated that he or she is willing to see students outside the tutorial time.
Many tutors are employed on a casual basis and
are not required to be available outside the tutorial time.
In general, if you need help you should see one of the lecturers during a consultation time.
You may use any calculator you like during tutorials and your own study.
In most units of study non-programmable calculators of any type are allowed
during quizzes held in tutorials. (In some units, calculators may not be allowed at
all during quizzes.)
During end-of-semester exams, the University will supply Casio fx-85MS calculators.
These calculators can no longer be purchased, but the Casio fx-82AU is very similar.
If you wish to inspect a University calculator you may do so at the Student Centre.
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