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Originally Posted by masterroshi
(Post 8343208)
I already put in about 4-5 hours on highschool work. Im also prepared to add to that in university. Someone previously wrote that the business courses arnt curved at kwantlen. Im not sure whose correct...
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Shit mybad, don't know how the grading works for Kwantlen, was referring to SFU. If you already put in 4-5 hrs in HS per week, I think you will need to triple that for University. For reference, my friend and I put in 1 hr / week in HS and average about 3 hrs in university.
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Originally Posted by gYU
(Post 8343322)
^+1 for zetazeta.
By the way, I remember zetazeta writing something about SFU's business curve vs UBC's (in terms of grading differences) but I can't seem to find it.. would be great if he could chime in again. Something along the lines of.. unfair SFU grading/more difficult.
To masterroshi, not trying to scare you or anything.. but the jump from HS to ANY post-secondary is huge. HS doesn't prepare you for university imo (at least it didn't prepare me). I had an extremely low GPA for my first term. To reinforce what zetazeta/j.c said, you really need to understand the material to do well in some courses (e.g., econ/accounting let's say). Even in "pure" memorization courses.. you need to be able to apply the correct terms
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I don't remember what I wrote, but feel free to ask/pm me anything SFU Business related (curve, grading, TA, co-op, courses, electives.....) I was somewhat involved at SFU (TA'd both upper division and lower division courses, co-op, club involvement, etc.....) so I have a bit of knowledge about Beedie.
Similar to g.yu (i think you were in my 254 class?....) I had a low GPA in my first 6 semesters at SFU and it wasn't until my late 3rd/4th year that I started to pick it up... and by then it was too late unfortunately. Make good friends at university, I had friends who were in the high 2.x - low 3.x gpa region so I thought achieving a 3.0 was good. It is not. The biggest difference between my upper division GPA and lower division was not just the curve difference (upper division curves up to 50% A's for select courses), but it was the understanding of how to study and prepare for courses/projects/presentations/assignments. Once you get the hang of things, it makes studying a breeze (you still have to put in a lot of effort but it was achievable).
In high school, I used to read the material once or twice, do a few practice questions and I would get decent marks (80%+). It doesn't work that way in university, you have to make sure you understand each practice and lecture question inside out. What I mean is if they give you variables X, Y, Z and ask you to solve for A, you better make sure you can solve for X, Y or Z if they swap the given variables around. Questions for exams will not be in the same format as your practice. They will give you different variables and solve for something else. If you just memorize how to do a certain type of question, you won't succeed. You need to know how to solve for every possible variable or even combination(s) of variables during your test. An example from one of my courses, students would often solve for a particular cost per unit based on given information and present their answers in a $#.## / unit for homework and lecture examples. On the exam, there was a twist to it, in the sense that the cost per unit was given as variable "Y" and students were asked to solve the rest of the numbers expressed in variable "Y". Most students knew how to solve the practice questions but once they were asked to solve the question backwards and with a non-number variable instead of given #'s, they could not do it...
Curve for lower division courses sucks at SFU. There was an article which said that SFU was the hardest university to get an A among the west coast. Since you're from Kwantlen, you might want to take a look at how transfers to SFU works because several years back, they used to deduct 0.3 GPA from all transfers (so if you have a 3.3 GPA at Kwantlen, they will evaluate you at 3.0). I have a friend who had a 3.9 at Kwantlen business and is struggling to pass courses at Sauder.
