Hi Miss Tedious. I am your seniorest- senior, as I am proceeding into Year 3 Semester 2, during January 2009. However, I will finish up my study in FES, Setapak, while you guyz will do it in Kampar, Perak.

Biochemistry timetable is much lighter compared to Biomedic, but is definitely heavier compared to Biotech. During year 1, you will have to attend around 18 hours (lecture + tutorial) + around 4-6 hours (lab) per week. Year 2 is abit more stressful, as you will take up some core subjects and hence around 22 hours (lecture + tutorial) and 6-8 hours (lab) per week. Year 3 gives you more freedom, but that will take up around 15 hours (lecture + tutorial) and 2-4 hours for labs.
There should be 2 address, permanent address and current address. The current address should be your location when you are studying in Kampar, while your permanent address should be your own home. You have to pass up most of the stuff during the registration day. However, the PTPTN form would be passed up during one specific date after the PTPTN briefing.

Dont worry about the accreditation. I am one of the student who went through the accreditation process and I am sure we have a high chance to get the accreditation. So far, I have yet to hear any course in FES failed to get accreditation.

Hi Akane. Our seniorest-senior XD. I was wondering if you undergo any industrial training for biochemistry and how many credit hour are we suppose to have to graduate. Is it compulsory to take pengajian malaysia? The letter said that we can take out some subject if we wanted.

Thank you so much for your time.

Okay. So we'd have to apply for exemption before we have to take the classes. Meaning to say in my case, I would have to apply for exemption for only Pengajian Malaysia upon entry and exemption for Pendidikan Moral the next year. Did I get it right?

Oh dear. I hope they do not change the system too much. I hope it is for the better, not the worse. It makes me cringe when somebody says that. No idea why.

Thank you very much for your response. I really appreciate it.

Haha, I'm not Neko guy. XD Oh so the industrial training can be chosen from a list or find it yourself. That's really nice. Working in NUS must be some experience and working in Sime Darby, such a famous company. Wow. How long is the industrial training? 3 months?

Aw man, I have to take Pengajian Malaysia and I thought I can skip it. I have enough of it in pengajian am. All the laws and Malaysia politics stuff. T_T I just want to ask about the exam. The thing you have study for the semester is what will be tested right? And the next sem, you won't have to be tested on the thing you did last sem right?

What about the credit hour? Are we suppose to reach a certain credit hour to graduate because that's what I heard from my friend in public uni. They need to get at least 110 credit hours to graduate.

Thank you so much for the info. It's a big help.

[EDIT]OMG, the new course structure for Biochem...http://www.utar.edu.my/fset/index.jsp?fcatid=84&fcontentid=264&f2ndcontentid=828 I think I'm going to faint now. Instead of 2 semester, there's 3 semester. More elective and language. We have to take "SUN ZI'S ART OF WAR AND BUSINESS STRATEGIES" as well. More credit hours now...

Haha and I think there won't be the 3 months sem break now. More courses. It's ok though. Some of the subject seems fun.

Tougher papers rearranged you say?

Oh, I realized there is a lot more stuff to study like principles of biotechnology.  And I realized Y2S1 is the one that you say most of the hard subject is situated. Haha. I hope the subject is nearly the same as what I have study in STPM. Haha.

The 3rd semester mostly consisted of elective, industrial training and project and toxicology. I think this will be shorter that the one in sem 1 and 2. I hope so. I wonder what the co-curricular unit is about though. I'm quite excited about the other language subject. Hehe, me gonna choose Jap.

More subjects to study may be a good thing and it is time to work harder than STPM already.

Not sure about the otehr campuses but here in the Kamapr campus, students have to pay to use the courts in the sport complex while we can use TARC's one or the one in a nearby town for free. 

I just realised that the Malaysian Studies and Moral Education subject code in the UTAR timetable for Biochem students is MPW2133 and MPW2153 respectively but the ones I have taken is coded as MPW1133 and MPW1153 (only difference is the number 2 there)

Is there any difference between those two codes or is it the same? Because the subjects are the same.

It's really making me confused. Now I do not know whether I could ask for exemption for this subject or not.

Anyone can help me clarify this matter? Thanks.

Not quite sure about this but from my observation, the code of subject in Y1 starts with 1, i.e. 1xxx while it is 2xxx for Y2. So I think they are the same but taken in different academic year.

last wed only i sent out de doc n dey shld hv received it ady rite?
i wonder wen is de suitable time 2 call dem up n check ... i scared wen i call dey still processing de doc n i wont get 2 noe whether i got de offer or not ..

Ooo wow. I think I'm going to borrow some books from the library and photostat it if it's too expensive to buy a book. I think there's a lot of reading to do and a good book is really needed. Thank you for the info Akane.

While doing lab reports, are you supposed to do it in the lab and hand it on the same day? That was how we did it in form 6 and it sucks. I can't even check my work after finishing and haha, I got so many wrongs sometime but the teacher was nice enough sometime to inform us...But only sometimes...I lost so many marks...Can we partner with someone when writing the report?

Aw...Thanks for the info. Haha library rush. I guess I am one of the kiasu first sem student eh.

Haha. Interesting. Kiasu first sem students. I have a feeling I'd be one too. Then everything shall cease slowly by the end of the semester.

By the way, would you guys be given a detailed syllabus at the start of every semester or you'd just have to sit and wait for what the lecturer would teach?

Or do you have to find for it yourselves online/library/other forms of resources?
[See, going "kiasu" already ]

Thanks a lot for all the infos. It has been really really helpful.

can i know...everyone(chinese) in UTAR all talk mandarin??

Thanks so much!

Oh, I think about the certification, I heard from someone that as long as it is a "grade A" officer, he/she can certify things. I have no idea what a grade A officer is, but I got my own dad to certify some of my certs before (since he had the certifying chop) and I don't think they noticed it. As long as it is certified I don't think there will be a problem. That is only my opinion, mind you.

And I thought I was the only "chinese" who don't speak mandarin going to Kampar. Haha. Ada kawan la this.

language elective?? wats dat? sumbody mind 2 tell me? sounds interesting ..
yest i got acknowledgement card frm utar asking me 2 send dem certified school leaving cert bt 2day i received de offer letter frm dem,so do i stil nid 2 send dem my certified school leaving cert?? very confusing..

hey guys ..i cant find my registration no on my bill ...
de only no i saw under de words 'registration no' is my ic no ...is dat de registration no??

cuz i nid 2 fill up de index card n everythin 2 post it back 2 utar ..
but i got no idea wat 2 put 4 reg.no ..
shld i juz put de ic no which i saw under de words 'reg.no' ???

okay. this is interesting. and all these while i thought i was the only banana around going to UTAR. haha.

we shall learn mandarin & cantonese together.

y cant v jz gv dem our photo ? y muz dey take our photo themselves? so weird ..

dey ll inform us wen dey nid 2 take our photos rite?

Any news of when will Faculty of Science and Engineering be moving to Kampar ? Tried to find out from the staff of Setapak campus, but they seemed to be secretive. Maybe the students or lecturers know about it, any idea?

Another question:

How do we choose our electives?I've took the form and it doesnt look like a form to choose your electives thou...

The form got the box with the word Add/Drop Unit.

Corrupted spirits...Where you got those paper?

Failing rate is high since the exam question are not easy.

20% of the lectural are hopeless. Some just read what they write in their note.

Sometime have part time lectural, so you have night and saturday class.

Some lectural have more than 300 student in 1 semester, so you don't have a real consultation hour.

There always plenty of gaps between class. I used to have 1 class in early morning, 1 in noon and 1 in late evening.

Don't expect first class service, this is a low cost college. All the staff there is just like government servant.

More assignment and presentation if compare to UTAR. Poor and outdated facilities, except the computer lab.

In the end, many things you have to work out yourself in KTAR. Don't so dependent like what you used to be in secondary school.