I read a couple of posts on the top that mentioned that they're considering majoring in Mathematics based on their SPM education. I don't think that's wise. I'm a year two student majoring in Applied Mathematics in NUS and I can tell you that you should never ever base university level mathematics to that of SPM. I personally did not take A-level so I can't comment on that. I did ontario sec sch diploma as my pre-u. Did rather well for advanced functions and calculus which turned out to be relatively useless in preparing me to the horrors of calculus in NUS.

I'm dabbling in IT right now as per requirement of my major. Might go into algorithms and e-commerce security. All I can say is that the perception that your degree is going to dictate your future career (not job) is quite naive. However, it is very important that whatever you plan on doing, you need to excel. If you find your grades amongst the average, do something extra. This is what I personally feel that Malaysian students are lacking.

P.S. in actuality, holding a degree in actuarial science does not mean you're a qualified actuary just as holding an engineering degree does not mean you're an engineer. A degree is no longer the highest level of education that will guarantee you a decent life. You need to learn how to market yourself.

Concepts are hard taught, if the presenter lacks ability to simplify jargons, and provide good illustration, examples.
For that I would say, it is perfectly normal to find Addmath hard at 1st attempt.
But lets be reasonable, paper-crunching doesnt help all the time. In fact its because of many wrong approach to "understand" the intuition behind these sylabus, is what made even some of the straight A's (or rather A+++ in Math)
stuck at certain depth of mathematical study.
[Rather than saying, Uni-level math & SPM level math is not comparable, I would say it definitely is[/B], by common sense.
But that would in no way imply one's passion in Math (at SPM level) should be turned down, based on these differences.
Then again, what would 1st year mathematics be for? Each transition would be a bridge, but how big is the gap in between depend on alot of personal factor. So, I would suggest its rather abit early to tell, but failing is not a shame,
but rather admitting u learnt something, which others might had even avoided in the 1st place.
In respect to advanced courses, each prerequisite studies, and high school materials are building bricks of your foundation.

Never try, never know.

"So, I would suggest its rather abit early to tell, but failing is not a shame,
but rather admitting u learnt something, which others might had even avoided in the 1st place."
general context.

cheers.

Everytime a word "suggest", would use upon expressing personal opinion, in a general context,
not necessarily be a response specific to particular individual but possibly on a general audience (in this case, likely future students that came across these posts for info).
What would be the problem of giving additional advice (given some observation of similar issue in the past), on top of
responding to a specific individual.

"So, I would suggest its rather abit early to tell, but failing is not a shame,
but rather admitting u learnt something, which others might had even avoided in the 1st place."
in this case, "u" refer to anyone reading it while facing the same dilema/issue.
And since u claimed to had graduated, it is obviously not in any way related to you.

There's a difference between forum posting, and PM, for which the latter is used for personal conversations.
I dont see a problem of me giving additional "advice" on top of my response.