Victoria Said:

Do you think I will be accepted into these Prep Schools?

We Answered:

Hey there :)
Im a freshman and my friend goes to the Hill. It sounds like you will be accepted to me!
My friend, was pretty smart. Got mostly A-'s and B+'s and A's. I think you'll do fine :)
good luck.

Cindy Said:

studying abroad?

We Answered:

G'day,

First of all... pls be advised that J^'s answer only explains lectures and tutors in general, but that's not exactly what's happening in Australian universities.

I used to be an international student in Australia from South-East Asia, studied for bachelor of business (sometimes called commerce) course as well. B'cos my country's high school qualification is not deemed equivalent to Austrlaian's high school, I had to do a foundation studies year, sort of a 'pre-uni' course to prepare you to study in uni level.

However, even after done a year foundation studies in Australia (which is like Australian high-school system), all of us (me and my fellow foundation studies graduates) still got the shock when we get to our first week of the first year at uni.

Before uni start, the international students will need to attend an orientation and enrolment week. This event is specially designed for newly arrived international students to make them feel welcome. The students is then enrolled to the classes of their course, then assisted to make the timetable for Lectures and Tutorial. Once that done, students will then be taken for campus tours to give them info abt how to access services and assistance available to international students. This will include the tour to the library, where the librarian will inform you how to research information from books or online database info. Also there are some helps either in library or some other student services section to help for writing papers/assignments. In some unis, these activities are conducted by the senior international students so all the information are relevant to the newbies as well, since they also experienced the same thing when they came to the uni for the first time. Therefore it is VERY CRUCIAL to come for the orientation week. In most cases, university staffs informed me that international students who came late and missed the orientation & enrolment week usually struggle to cope.

The first week of study usually called an orientation week. There are no formal teaching. Just course coordinator introduce the teaching staffs and giving out handouts with lecture topics to cover every week, what homework to do before the tutorial, what book to read and to buy and when will the assignments due.

Lectures is basically conducted in a big lecture theater, where all students (can be 50 to 100 students) who study the subject come together to listen to the explanation that the lecturers tell you abt the topic of the week. It is strongly advisable that you at least read the topic before come to lecture to avoid sleeping in the class, having no ideas what was happening ;) This is when some int. students struggle. Like me, English wasn't even a 2nd language in my home country, so to hear the lecturers lecturing on and we have to simultaneously hear him, read what he wrote and write down is extremely challenging. I'm sure you will have very little problem with this. IF you do think that you will have problem with this, then I suggest you to buy a voice-recorder of some sort (it used to be a walkman in my days) to record the lecture and re-hear them again later, to add things to your initial note. The lecturers will never mind that you are recording them.
The 2nd week is when the tutorial classes start. All those students are divided into smaller tutorial classes and this is the time when you ask anything that you dun understand during the lecture, abt assignment problems and homeworks .

The system also encourage you to study, find out and try things yourself. If, after doing things yourself, you stuck... then you can come to the tutors and lecturers and ask them directly. In most cases, they will put a note on when to come to see them for a one-to-one consultation (at no extra charge... LOL). Some subjects even give extra marks for class activities during tutorial as well.

Yes... there will be some time needed for adjustment and there's no way you can prepare until you come for the first week in uni. In my first month in uni, I used to complained that I need 26hrs a day... not 24! However after awhile, you will adjust to the new system with your fellow first-year students (including the Aussies).

My advise are these:
1. PLEASE COME EARLY if possible. Nothing worse than starting the classes in uni, and you are still struggling finding accommodations, learning where to shop for your daily groceries, buying furnitures etc. When you had a bad/late start, it usually carried on.
2. SEEK ADVISE/further help from the teaching staff ASAP if you think that you are struggling with a topic or will be late to submit an assignment. Quite alot of students leave it until it was too late. You'll get no sympathy from the lecturers if your reason is "Because I don't know the topic very well".

Hope this helps. Hope I can share my experience to you. E-mail me at mikegun(at)studentfirst.com.au if you have more questions abt study in Australia. Good luck and welcome to Australia :)

Emily Said:

How do i make my teacher nice to me?

We Answered:

YOU HAVE TO TELL YOUR PARENTS ABOUT IT OR SHOE THIS TO THEM AND LET THEM TAKE CARE OF IT.

THEY SHOULD DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT ATLEAST LET THE PRINCIPLE KNOW ABOUT THIS.

Larry Said:

Why does Yahoo suspend people for writing silly answers but not pedophile groups who are breaking the law? ?

We Answered:

there guide lines only count when someones feelings are hurt
if a person says the want to wrap them selves in newspaper and become a kangaroo you cant tell them its not possible because they'll report you for being mean

its happened to me twice now
good luck emo goth
fight the good fight

Melanie Said:

No wonder THE 0bama did not want us to see his academic work. Are you pleased with what he has to say about?

We Answered:

As late as 2001, then Senator Obama was on the radio in Chicago reiterating the same words;
He stated that the error in the Civil Rights era was that "redistribution of wealth" was not addressed. Obama clearly feels EXACTLY the same about our Founders now as he did when he wrote that Thesis, and it makes me feel like vomiting on someone's shoe, quite honestly.

This man should never have been elected, and he would NOT have been elected except that we all know that papers were hidden and made unavailable to the public as well as his past comments, his radical associations, etc...
In addition, the Media decided they wanted to protect and even lie about him. Meanwhile, a public who so badly wanted hope and change, grabbed onto that message BUT NEVER ASKED OBAMA WHAT KIND OF CHANGE HE INTENDED. Now, we are looking at becoming the next Venezuela.
One final note: Obama is either lying in his thesis or else he is a very stupid man, because the FEDERALIST PAPERS addressed the idea of redistribution of wealth in great detail. Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and others stated over and over again that a people CANNOT BE FREE if their property and their industry (their work and earnings) can be coveted and stolen from them; this, they say, is the beginning of Anarchy and tyranny. Thats what our "so-called
Founders" said about it.
The reason the Constitution does not provide for distribution of wealth is because IT WOULD BE THE END OF ANY THOUGHT OF FREEDOM AND RIGHTS FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

Thanks for bringing this to the forum today.