QUOTE(Draig @ Feb 13 2012, 07:48 PM)
Well, it depends on the university's criteria that your applying to. Unfortunately, I reckon that Physics and Maths are almost compulsory for any engineering field. Chemistry may not be a necessary requirement for chemical engineering instead.
Added on February 13, 2012, 6:59 pmDiploma in Mechanical Engineering is approximately 1 step more difficult than SPM, which means the maths, physics etc you'll learn will only be slightly different from SPM (what i heard). If you are certain to take up mech eng., it shouldnt be much problem coping with it.
Add maths, did you not understand the topics? Or you couldnt figure things out quick enough during exam period? Anyhow, there is a lot of engineering students who did not do well enough in their add math, yet taking up eng. If you enjoy maths, enjoy physics, (regardless of how bad you do in SPM), you should welcome yourself to take Eng.
I would somewhat disagree with what your parents commented. In my oppinion, i think financing field would assure you a job in future, but in order to excel in finance field, thats difficult, as there are too many finance grad. Every business operating company deals with money, they do need finance people anyway. However, for engineering, it is difficult to find a job that is specifically titled Mechanical Engineer and good pay enough, at Malaysia. that doesnt mean, its not good. Eng people can divert their occupation to many others such as IT.
I think both. I Dont really understand the differentiation and integration chapter..integration is still ok. differentiation i dont understand at all. And I dislike the way of these chapter are taught by my teacher(or maybe all teacher). They just give question and sample answer without telling what differentiaton is about. so i abit blur what it is and what is it used for. trigonometry summore...lose track already...other chapter okla....but mistakes drag down my marks alot.....
for physics, i really like the concept like hydraulic,buoyancy,pressure and all that stuff....usually my physic marks fluctuates between A- to B- like that. And i also like to see how machines works..i think that is why im thinking to go for diploma in mech eng. In fact, now im working at a speaker manufacturing factory as an operator while waiting for my result and i work with few machines, learned abit on how to troubleshoot problematic machines like stamping machines and all that and I find it to be quite fun. not sure wether those stuff is what mech eng is about or not.
with f*-up foundation in add math,im still in doubt wether im suitable for this course or not.