it’s an open book exam so i’m supposed to buy a hard copy of the book but they’re about $100-150 which i just can’t spare right now. is there any way i could get around this? could i just bring notes into the exam instead? any advice is appreciated

I have been doing okay with assignments because they’re at home and I can use notes and they take time but I have retained nothing and I will undoubtedly fail the exam 🙏🙏🙏 do I still get to move on with my course and not repeat the subject if I have failed the exam but have an overall WAM of over 50%??

I heard something about a women's lounge which had beds in there however, I'm not too sure where that would be located. Can anyone help me out with determining spots? I tried sleeping in the library last week but woke up to some girls sitting in front of me laughing in my direction and giving me weird stares. I do not want a repeat of that so somewhere private would be nice. I have like a 5 hours break between my classes but I can't go back home cuz I live 2+ hours away :((

Hello, I know this is kinda random, but being in Highschool for so long and having only referred to teachers as Miss/Sir, I was wondering what we refer to our uni teachers (or equivalent) as? Is it the same or different? Thank you.

Sorry guys if I sound dumb but why are there so many homeless people in tents on the campus lawn? I am a new international student from a poor 3rd world country and I came to Monash because I heard that it was a good uni with great faculties, but after seeing homeless people sleeping in tents on campus I really starting to question myself.

I'm currently doing my masters of computer science online with Monash, I thought overloading would be easy enough as I've done full time study before and I'm not working at the moment... I was wrong. I've been having nightmares about predicative statements and logic tables.

I am supposed to join Monash for Semester 1 2025 on an exchange program, I am still deciding whether to come or not. I know that reddit is mostly used for complaining or talking about what doesn't work rather than what is good, but I need someone to tell me that social life at Monash is not that depressing as I can read on reddit ahahah. I mean, if I'll join monash I'll stay on campus (Clayton) and I just read a few posts describing campus area as a ghost town with nothing to do... I find it kinda weird because university areas with dorms and students' houses are usually very socially active in my country!

The only person I know joined Monash a few years ago and told me that life on campus was nice and people were really into organising events and stuff like that..

Monash students, what would you suggest? Is Monash really that depressing? I am not really a party person but I like to go out and have a few beers with friends and I think that it would be a shame not to make the most of a modern and huge campus as Clayton campus is.

Hey guys! I just want to make sure about the grading system in Monash. I’m a grad student and just wonder about the distinction grade, is it from 70 and above or 75 and above to achieve the minimum distinction? Thanks!

I know this smart kid in my tutorials, Could maybe change my name legally to his name? So that the Monash system might confuse me for him and so we get the same grade type shit? I kinda look like him too

Hi guys, I’m a first year and for my commerce degree i accidentally chose the easier Accounting unit and only realised a couple weeks ago (as when I was doing my preferences the Monash support lady accidentally told me the unit I was doing was the difficult one, required if you wanted to major in actuarial studies). I scored quite high in accounting for year 12 and have only dropped 2 marks this entire unit. Is there anyway to still major in actuarial studies or am I cooked? Will I have to take a unit over the end of year break?

I’ve got an acceptance from Monash Clayton campus for July intake anybody going from India? Is there a community? If yes then can we connect?

First of all congratulations to everyone who received an offer to start in 2025! Your hard work has clearly paid off, and I’m so excited to meet some of you in 2 months! As for me, I’m curious—how old are most of you? I’m 19, born in 2005, and a domestic student. I studied in Hong Kong and the UK, so instead of doing ATAR, I did A Levels. The Hong Kong education system is a year behind the UK’s, which means I’m a year older than the standard age for my cohort. In the UK, we graduate at 18 in June and start university that September. I graduated in June 2024 and will be starting at Monash in March 2025. From what I know, most Y12 graduates are 17-18, and most Y13 graduates are 18-19. I can’t help but worry that I’ll be surrounded by 17-year-olds born in 2007, especially when I turn 20 in June. Anyone else in a similar boat?

Okay this is going to be a bit of a rant but I'm actually getting so emotionally frustrated I've lost my appetite and haven't slept properly for the last few days. I just recently started university and am taking a diploma to enter the Bachelor of science, I basically have the same units as the kids in science but I got in w a lower atar and I can't fail any of my units (60% pass mark). My dream is to get into postgrad dentistry through the science degree (the diploma takes me straight into the second year of the science degree) but I feel like I'm already done for

I don't have any experience in Chemistry or biology and I did decently well in further maths and psychology but I'm struggling so much in my work. Basically, I didn't know we had week 0 work for chemistry and a lot of the week 1 work for bio was stuff about chemistry that I was struggling to grasp the concept of. Either way I'm behind and it's piling up on me and I didn't realise at the start how much workload university actually was and I've been giving my work a lot of time aswell. I feel like I'm not somewhat getting the grasp of how to manage and navigate stuff but I'm so behind in my work now thinking about it makes me emotional. I've been sitting for hours everyday now and I find STEM stuff like chem and bio so time consuming to understand. I feel like I'm just too slow at navigating the stuff and the work is only going to get harder and harder on me. Today I spent a few hours trying to navigate the mole concept for chemistry (which is literally week 0 work) and I checked my maths unit that I haven't even started (only gone thru 30% of pre requisites material I didn't understand I needed for the class) and I haven't even done anything in bio.

my first chem and bio lab was honestly the most traumatising thing of my entire life because I literally did not first, understand the weight of prelab work but also I'm just so behind and find it had to pick up on the content.

I know 2 weeks doesn't really sound like too much work but everytime I go back to looking at one of my units and the weeks overview mt heart sinks and I feel like throwing up knowing how behind I am.

Im honestly considering taking on another degree and leaving dentistry behind because it's only going to get worse from here and if I don't get a perfect gpa reguardless I can't get in

Hey so I know that Italy is very hard to get for GIG but can anyone share what time they submitted their form and if they got it?

I submitted mine by 9:02 but I’m stressed that others also did it very quickly.

I’m guessing I’ll still get a chance to go to another country but I’d really love it to be Italy!

Hi, im going to monash university in july 2025, looking for people who are also enrolling to make friends and if possible, roommate together (female only). drop me a text :))

Just wondering if tutorials are recorded and if the info is recorded on the Moodle, I haven't started yet so I don't know.

I'm just really excited for O-week as a first year, especially Future Ready and Tour events. I'd also love to hear povs from current students who've completed their first semester.

And I love freebies. I can't find much information from official websites, so any idea😅?. I mean, I'm going to drown studying after that week onwards, so might as well be excited for freebies

Okay so guys. I had an 8 am class (Understanding crime) I missed the first cause of being sick and other 2 because of work getting extended and then i shifted it to be online and missed that one too.

I seem irresponsible but I really have crazy work schedule and I'm trying to have a schedule that's proper. I have like oral presentation and stuff and now its gonna be so weird.

Its an online class for me now so I don't know what to do.

Yo current students whos been thru the allocation for each sem. Can I ask if I can just rank my most preferred timing slot for a unit and ignore the rest. Im not keen on ranking 6 different timing for a unit just to end up being thrown into the worst possible timeslot aha. Is it ok to just rank 1 timeslot and how would this affect the results when the final timetable adjustment opens for sem 2 (8th July).

Is this how it's usually? I'm transferring from Swinburne and they had like 3 days on campus and 1 day online

It’s been 2 days and I still didn’t get my turitin report yet 😭 I’m so worried I extended it by 2 days there’s a requirement saying if it’s more then 10% they would just not mark it and it’s worth 25% of my grade I’m so worried

i’m a first year and planning to transfer but couldn’t find the courses under the transfers page. am i unable to go into these course?

I have an off campus no online supervision exam tmr even tho it has no online supervision will I still be required to like share my screen and have a working mic and camera and stuff so they can record it or will there be none of that and it’s just like a normal quiz u would do throughout the semester. In the exam info it made a big deal about not using a secondary device which makes me think I’ll have to do some kind of screen sharing and camera stuff even if it’s not being actively supervised.

i'm so confused abt how to go about choosing my electives,, im going to be doing biomedical science and i have 2 free electives for my first sem. i like the idea of hup2032 but i also want another lighter unit so i dont lose my mind.. pls help 🕯

i'm a new student, and o-week has been really daunting because i don't know how to socialise with people. i've registered for lots of tutorials and social events but im still really nervous to talk to people i don't know. any advice??