Originally Posted by ThagsanaR

So...on a scale of 1-10(1 being the same level of hardness as first year math)...how much harder are these two maths in comparison?! O.o

It depends, I found 1z04 much harder than 1zz5, and neither of those compared to the 2z03/2zz3. The second years were much harder for me, mainly because I found that I could understand much less of what was going on. I still did quite well in both courses, as you can still do questions if you memorize the steps/various solutions. Just a lot harder in terms of concepts.

Originally Posted by MiniDragon

Yazinski is teaching. How is he?

LOL. Good luck. He's confusing as all hell but he's a nice guy.

Originally Posted by Alchemist11

LOL. Good luck. He's confusing as all hell but he's a nice guy.

Great. Lets hope 'Nice guy' translates into 'Reasonable tests.'

So do the people who took the course in the summer find it helpful? I really don't want to do this with C03, but I kinda want to get it out of the way.

I wouldn't be too worried about those two math courses. There's no question that they are probably going to be the hardest courses for second year, at least for me they were, but they are still manageable. Just stay on top of the homework problems and what not. The concepts are not too bad to grasp until you get into 2zz3 towards the last few chapters where shit hits the fan but other than that's its alright lol.

IMO if your already taking one or even two courses over the summer than throw in these two to get them out of the way but there's not real need to otherwise. Enjoy your summer going to need it.

Originally Posted by MiniDragon

Yazinski is teaching. How is he?

I ****ing hate you.

He was supposed to teach my year 2ZZ3, so I went to some of his first-year Stats lectures to check him out. Turned out to be an awesome guy, an effect enhanced tenfold when compared to Protas, who was teaching me 2Z03 at the time.

But then things went terribly, terribly wrong and he was replaced by someone who was even worse than Protas.

I'm still bitter.

Killer courses. Take it during the summer. You can thank me later.

Ugh...dunno if this is on topic or not, but incase anyones wondering, second test got belled. Out of 14 now....

Originally Posted by xxsumz

Ugh...dunno if this is on topic or not, but incase anyones wondering, second test got belled. Out of 14 now....

ugh? isnt that a good thing ... ?
hrm... Im happy that I got an "80%" on the 2nd test... it really did help average out my first test that ... i completely messed up on.

ps. something about the first test being pulled and added to the exam? Not sure .. anyone hear about this?

Rumour has it that there will be 2 marking schemes - whichever results in a higher mark will be used.

1) Same marking scheme as before.

2) - Better midterm:20%
- Worse midterm will be scrapped
- MatLab: 15%
- Exam: 65%

Originally Posted by VastHorizon

Rumour has it that there will be 2 marking schemes - whichever results in a higher mark will be used.

1) Same marking scheme as before.

2) - Better midterm:20%
- Worse midterm will be scrapped
- MatLab: 15%
- Exam: 65%

Yeah tahts true, Gabardo told us yesterday

^ good stuff, apparently there is a section where you actually do calculations?

Originally Posted by VastHorizon

Rumour has it that there will be 2 marking schemes - whichever results in a higher mark will be used.

1) Same marking scheme as before.

2) - Better midterm:20%
- Worse midterm will be scrapped
- MatLab: 15%
- Exam: 65%

This is AWESOME news! Hopefully the final is a little better time wise!

So... How did you guys find that 2ZZ3 final?

Originally Posted by VastHorizon

So... How did you guys find that 2ZZ3 final?