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    First Year Commerce

    also subjects that are done in first semester (usually, depends on majors) quantitative methods microeconomics accounting and an option course, generally for your major (marketing, finance, accounting, etc)
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    First Year Commerce

    standard commerce in 1st yr is 12-13 hrs depends how good you are at them.. you might not even turn up to all your lectures which reduces that further by a couple of hours generally you will have no fridays, but if you really wanted you could probably cut another day out as well. keep in...
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    Pros, Cons

    the only way its "more" work in any particular year is if you consider doing varied subjects more work, but the same number of courses/credits are still done in terms of total work yes its more because you actually do more credit points because you have to stay an extra year or two if you...
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    Maths + actuarial at macquarie

    i dont know how law could be that useful as a double with actuarial anyway if your aim is to be an actuary.. its not like you need such a comprehensive understanding of the law on the other hand having a deeper understanding of the background of the equations and theorems you use in...
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    alternatives to not making acst

    at unsw its about 13-14 hrs of classes in first year most people would probably only go to 11-12 ish of classes, i mean sometimes lectures just suck doing actuarial adds another 3 hrs in first year because of the maths course, so about 16ish if you go to everything (haha)
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    ADSL: ISP service and modems (seperate)

    i'm not sure on the other companies but i might be wary with iinet a while back they had horrible amounts of downtime while the last couple of months have been near perfect, i was on the verge of shifting to a new ISP when it was quite common to have a couple of hours of downtime in the...
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    some help please with statistics

    using a graphics calc means you dont need to know the theory allows you to succeed more if you are dumb
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    some help please with statistics

    well i dont have one :P and we need to know the theory anyway, no graphics calcs allowed in our exams at uni
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    some help please with statistics

    the theory on the table and fiddling with all the inequalities is too much work for me to do right now :/
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    some help please with statistics

    spurce moose: i'm assuming its normally distributed.. anyway we know mean = 400 and std dev = 25 let X be age of light bulb i) P(X > 404.5) = P( (X - mean) / stddev > (404.5 - mean) / stddev) = P( Z > (404.5 - 400) / 25) = P( Z > 0.18)...
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    Double degrees

    i'm pretty sure you cant do it for finance, accounting or any of the "higher" commerce subjects.. no way you could take enough courses for them to make 2 majors unless you stay longer then 4 years
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    Double degrees

    you can only choose 1 major for each degree for bcom/bsc
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    bridging courses- what the?

    absolutely not dude, u start from the very beginning
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    Ok people....i need some important info!

    as interesting as these stats are, it should hardly effect your choice of uni, unless you support pauline hanson, or live in the last century
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    Comm-Actuarial

    a little from column A, a little from column B
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    Where to do Maths?

    you would list bachelor of science or bachelor of advanced science in your preferences which uni you pick probably wont matter in the end but i'd stick to unsw or usyd for B.Sc actuarial studies isnt all about stats, its a hybrid of commerce subjects, general maths, probability, statistics
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    which actuarial degree is better?

    in the end it will probably be the same for you.. at mac you start doing actuarial subjects straight off. the one at mac has been around for longer, but you have to ask yourself how exactly this translates. at unsw you start with the core commerce and maths subjects first semester, and then...
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    ACCT1501 Exam...?

    doesnt balance. value of holidays > 1A
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    ACCT1501 Exam...?

    same here got a bit fuddled on the inventory bit with the chocolates but besides that and a couple of maybe's here and there it was easier then i thought it'd be
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    Integration by Special Properties

    wouldnt call it a law but its usable enough that its one of the things we were told we could use in uni :P guess its like counting the area backwards so its negative
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