i m in business I.
can i take upper level courses next sem? but i saw the program note states that Students in Business I are not eligible to take upper Level Commerce course work.

If you look in the undergrad calendar it tells you who it's open to. If you don't qualify you can apply for special permission from the prof but you'd have to give a good reason and have the marks to prove that you can handle it.

If you're in Commerce I and it states you're not allowed to take Commerce II-IV I highly doubt you can.

You may be able to take courses from other faculties.

However, taking an upper-year course as a first year is not really recommended. The course will assume that you will have knowledge from first year (or second year) courses, which you will most likely not have, causing you to flounder.

I took a second year poli sci course in term II of first year myself. I didn't end up doing as well as I could have if I took the course in second year...or if I took first year poli sci.

i heard that as long as you can get high marks, they dont even care what courses you take.is that true? so, even u r in 3rd year, u still can take 1st year courses and 8s counted in your 3rd year average as well. that's y a lot of ppl take 42 units of 1st year courses. i dont understand. i though it's better if i can go into major or honours and graduate as soon as possible. am i wrong?

That really depends on the program you are applying to for graduate/professional schools. For instance, for medical school, some schools require your courseload every year to be at least 60% in the appropriate year (except for 4th year when you can take 3rd year courses to fulfill the requirement).

Regardless, people do take 1st year courses and other "bird courses" to bump up their averages. Note that you can only take a certain number of 1st year courses (I think it's 42?). I think many programs do look specifically at your transcript, so they would easily see that you purposely took all these easy courses just to bump up your CA, and that you (for example) weren't as good in subjects that actually corresponded to your major. This could contribute to a lowered chance of getting into a desired program.

What do you mean by "you think it's better to graduate as soon as possible"? If you do an honours degree, you must complete it 4 years; otherwise you could do a non-honours (just bachelor) and complete it in 3 years. There are a number of reasons why graduating as soon as possible may or may not be a good idea...

To be perfectly honest, I don't think any of us can accurately judge what post-graduate programs (if that is what you're implying) are looking for, other than what their website explicitly state.

Having said that, fourth year courses are harder than third year courses. Third year courses are supposed to be harder than second year courses. Second year courses are supposed to be easier than third year courses but harder that first year classes.

When looking at your academic record, other schools will notice if you take a lot of first year courses over taking third year ones...so marks aren't everything. And if you get poor marks in first year courses people will start to wonder too.