Bridging Course so short! (1 Viewer)

[AntiHyper]

I'm intending to study in engineering and it's recommended to have done maths extension 1 in yr 12, which i didn't do.

Luckily usyd has a bridging course for that, i've applied for the "evening course" and going to pay it sometime next week ($180)

I personally doubt that anyone can learn the whole 3-unit course in the length of the course (Mon Feb 13 to Thurs Mar 2, 2006 ~ 16 days)

What do you people who have done the course in year 12 think of it?

It's assumed that we'll be doing AT LEAST 2 hours of home work during the course. It will run Monday-Thursday, 6-8pm.

I reckon it's better to do the evening course because it's longer than the day one (Mon Feb 13 to Tue Feb 28, 2006 ~ 2 weeks) and you can go to the beach during the day :uhhuh:

 

[desai]

oh shit. i am also doing engineering in uni and was planning on doing bridging courses in both physics and chemistry (because im stupid and didnt do them in high school) and i didnt know we were already supposed to book! were we?

anways in response to your post i think they'll only teach us the stuff extremely relevant to the uni course and will not be teaching us all the theory and that. otherwise i dont know, except that everyone recommends it

 

[sunny]

Don't underestimate how compressed and fast uni can teach things. When people tell you doing two 14 week semesters a year is like doing the HSC twice they're not kidding.

 

[ioniser]

from my brothers and sisters experience they told me,its alot of work in those bridging courses and be expected to get lost in the lectures.Im getting a tutor for 4 unit,to help me cope with engineering next year this holis.I ve heard from other people's experience that 3 units generally struggle a bit in engineering so yeahh.......

 

[minushuman]

I learnt the entire 2unit/3unit combined course over two evenings. You'll be fine.

 

[Casmira]

i can pick shit up really well fast too! yay for me

 

[EmMindelan]

I had a friend who did the 2U bridging course at Sydney Uni last year - the day course, which is 2 weeks long - and he said that they cut out the stuff you'll never need to know at uni, and focus on the important stuff. He's a below-average Maths student, but had no problems with the bridging course at all.

 

[pritnep]

I think the cutting out of all the 'unusable' equations etc and formulas that wouldn't be need in your field of study can help a lot of people understand the concepts easier as sometimes it is that stuff that makes maths complicated.

 

[AntiHyper]

Thanks for replies, in fact I did maths extension 1 in year 11 but dropped it in the end because i was going so bad at it.

I hope SOME of the stuff will be just revision for me as i did them in yr 11 (badly).

oh shit. i am also doing engineering in uni and was planning on doing bridging courses in both physics and chemistry (because im stupid and didnt do them in high school) and i didnt know we were already supposed to book! were we?

anways in response to your post i think they'll only teach us the stuff extremely relevant to the uni course and will not be teaching us all the theory and that. otherwise i dont know, except that everyone recommends it

I looked up the chemistry & physics application system and they're different to the maths system.
http://www.chem.usyd.edu.au/future/bridging.html
http://physics.usyd.edu.au/ugrad/bridging.html

Both doesn't accept apply by web, so you have to mail in the given application form to them. Secondly both are much more expensive than the maths ones ($275 for chem & $295 for physics)

Thirdly:

The Physics Bridging course overlaps with the Chemistry Bridging course. If this is problem for you please contact Phil Dooley.

good luck

 

[mtarlo11]

i hafta do a 2 week bridging course in feb for engineering at wollongong

2 unit maths, extention maths, physics and chemstry.

should b fun...

has anyone done this?