ah i think it is too early for such judgement to be in 1st year 1st semester. i personally enjoy tutorials more than lectures since lectures can be really dry.

How's the assessment structure like in university or college for software engineering course/subject? 30% assignment and 70% theory (exams)?

The thing is in peer assessment, you straightaway give the marks without the need to point out any mistake. No report is needed and you just submit the marks.

Yeah, lectures are just you sitting there and listening while in tutorials you actually interact with each other. But still, lecture duration should be sufficient and not to the point that even the lecturers are complaining. The tutorials and workshops have mostly no issue with the timing.

You're a tutor of a 1st year and 2nd year units, right? Do you have any issues or things that you don't agree with in your units? And it's also kinda funny that I previously told you that I had issue with FIT1045 but eventually, it turned out that I have no issues on FIT1045 and instead it's the other units.

I don't know about Software Engineering or any other courses. I'm currently studying Computer Science in Monash and the assessment structure differs between each unit. The assessment is classified into examination and in-semester assessment (which includes assignments, quizzes, workshops, tests, etc). In my case, I had four units in my last semester and their structures are as follows.

1) Examination: 40%; In-semester assessment: 60%
2) Examination: 60%; In-semester assessment: 40%
3) Examination: 50%; In-semester assessment: 50%
4) Examination: 70%; In-semester assessment: 30%

There's also hurdles policy where you must meet in order to pass a unit. The hurdles policy is at least 50% overall AND at least 40% for the total non-examination assessment AND at least 40% for the exam.

I just noticed the difference between the assessment structure of the units is also an issue. There needs to be a consistency.

This post has been edited by LightKeyDarkBlade: Jul 6 2017, 11:28 PM

Thanks for the info. Sorry, the term "Unit" is referring to the course subject right?

This post has been edited by ngaisteve1: Jul 6 2017, 11:42 PM

Yes, we use the term "unit" for the subjects in Monash.

well there are but in general my units are really well developed (and hard lol)

Usually around how many students in your class? 30-40?

depends on units
- some units can have just around 10 (less popular)
- some units can have up to 200 (core units)
tutorials and labs are usually limited to 20-25 max unless special cases

wa you mean 200 students in one lecture hall? that's a lot ya

Oh, hard. Well, I've gotta be prepared.

Yeah, it depends on the units. In many cases, there are units which have students from different courses and I even had business students in one of my Computer Science units (the unit that I was complaining about) until they switched to other units when they found out that the unit only has little coding and mostly theory and concepts. But most of the time, we Computer Science students learn with Software Engineering students more often since what we learn is similar in the beginning, unless we're talking about more general units like mathematical units.

Lectures can have students that fill the seats of almost the entire lecture theatre while tutorials and workshops can have up to the standard number of students in a classroom. It depends but that's the maximum case.

It does't matter which university. As long you learned what lecturer give to you. Applied on you skill. If you have lot of money, go overseas. Otherwise, take any UA is enough. IPTS also good, but make sure the cert / diploma / degree / master / phd are accredited by National Accreditation Board of Malaysia (Lembaga Akreditasi Negara, LAN).