UNSW rectangles- need help! (1 Viewer)

[simi07]

Hey
I am hoping to attend UNSW this year. I tried to put the core subjects in UNSW rectangle thing, however I couldnt find the following subjects that are stated in the Handbook:

Quantitative Analysis for Business and Economics
Economic Anlaysis

What do I choose instead of that? Also, UNSW rectangles arent always right yeh! Because I tried to put the subjects that came up instead of the ones above and it gave me 5 days, i hope i dont have to attend 5 days (especially when 1 day i'll be attending for 1 hour only- considering i'll be travelling 2 hrs to get to uni only)

Any help will be appreciated

Thanks

 

[kevinx2]

ECON1401 EconomicAnalysis is only offered in semester 2

ECON1203 Quantitative Analysis for Business and Economics should be there

 

[simi07]

ECON1401 EconomicAnalysis is only offered in semester 2

ECON1203 Quantitative Analysis for Business and Economics should be there

thanks a lot

 

[LordPc]

What do I choose instead of that? Also, UNSW rectangles arent always right yeh! Because I tried to put the subjects that came up instead of the ones above and it gave me 5 days, i hope i dont have to attend 5 days (especially when 1 day i'll be attending for 1 hour only- considering i'll be travelling 2 hrs to get to uni only)

AFAIK rectangles is always right. it produces every possible timetable that you can make and displays them to you

there are options you know? so you can choose the days option to cut down on how many days a week you have to attend

 

[kevinx2]

AFAIK rectangles is always right. it produces every possible timetable that you can make and displays them to you

there are options you know? so you can choose the days option to cut down on how many days a week you have to attend

with 3 subjects a semester for commerce, the least number of days rectangles could give was 4, the most being 5.
I made my timetable by hand and fitted everything in 2 days

 

[samthebear]

How do you make your time table by hand? i'm also intending to study at UNSW this year and i put in the core subjects as stated in the hand book and i've got 5 days at uni no matter how i try to sort it.

 

[henry08]

Well that may just be how it has to be for you.

 

[Simo91]

How do you make your time table by hand? i'm also intending to study at UNSW this year and i put in the core subjects as stated in the hand book and i've got 5 days at uni no matter how i try to sort it.

You have to find the course handbook online and look at the times the classes are on yourself. Click on the name of the course you put in on rectangles and it should take you straight to the page. The link for class times is in the blue box.

 

[TehAzner]

How do you make your time table by hand? i'm also intending to study at UNSW this year and i put in the core subjects as stated in the hand book and i've got 5 days at uni no matter how i try to sort it.

Or you could go to this site:

Class Search by Teaching Period

On this website are the corresponding Subject Areas (ACCT, ECON, LAWS, ARTS etc..) and if you have the course codes (1501, 1202, 1052 etc..) ready, and incorporating an excel spreadsheet, it shouldn't be too hard to come up with one manually.

 

[LordPc]

with 3 subjects a semester for commerce, the least number of days rectangles could give was 4, the most being 5.
I made my timetable by hand and fitted everything in 2 days

im guessing that with only 3 subjects you probably got > 1000 timetables which reduces the effectiveness of the program

honestly, I dont think 3 commerce subjects is the target market, more like 4 engineering subjects

 

[tommykins]

im guessing that with only 3 subjects you probably got > 1000 timetables which reduces the effectiveness of the program

honestly, I dont think 3 commerce subjects is the target market, more like 4 engineering subjects

Yeah + science kids.

Don't know why commerce kids would use it as much, probably better off manually doing it

 

[veloc1ty]

im guessing that with only 3 subjects you probably got > 1000 timetables which reduces the effectiveness of the program

honestly, I dont think 3 commerce subjects is the target market, more like 4 engineering subjects

Even 4 science subjects can give >1000 timetables and thus useless output. So you're probably right in that mostly engineering students use it, since apparently only 14% of requests are affected by the 1000 result limitation (see p46).

 

[henry08]

4 first year engineering subjects gave me > 1000 results.

 

[mocha_mocha]

honestly, I dont think 3 commerce subjects is the target market, more like 4 engineering subjects

if this is reddit, you deserve 100+ upvotes

 

[ct92]

I tried the Rectangles system and it gave me a few timetables with which I was happy. Is there any way to import that timetable into my account, or do I need to recreate it by hand?

 

[~::UAI::~]

I tried the Rectangles system and it gave me a few timetables with which I was happy. Is there any way to import that timetable into my account, or do I need to recreate it by hand?

U need to add those class u want by urself ^^

 

[sunny]

How do you make your time table by hand?

oh god we're getting to the age where students aren't even making timetables for themselves!

in person enrolment < half working online enrolment < nice online enrolment < nice online enrolment + auto generated timetables