The courses are rich and flexible, and there is no reason to be lazy.
Generally speaking, students will determine the institutions and majors they want to enter when they first enter school. Then there is the course selection. In addition to the compulsory subjects of this major, students can also flexibly choose their own elective subjects. Elective subjects can be courses of other majors in the same college or cross-college courses. For example, I am a finance major in the business school of Modu University. Besides finance courses, I can also choose other courses in business school, such as accounting courses and marketing courses. At that time, I also took intercollegiate courses and chose language courses of art college, such as Japanese and academic English. The flexible choice of courses satisfies students' interest in different academic fields, broadens students' knowledge and cultivates students' various knowledge and skills, thus improving students' comprehensive ability and providing more competitive advantages for future employment.
And this also means that my college life is full and busy, and I can't find a reason to be lazy. Sometimes when I talk to my classmates in China, I feel that they are much more relaxed and "happy".
It is very important to learn to teach yourself and think independently.
International students are generally full-time students. The university requires full-time students to complete four courses each semester (two semesters a year), that is, eight courses a year. Of course, some subjects also offer summer schools, the so-called third semester. Summer school is mainly for those students who want to finish their studies ahead of time and fail the exam, but don't want to delay graduation. Different majors, different disciplines, weekly class hours are different. For example, the business class has four classes a week, *** 12 hours, and each class has three hours a week, including two hours in the big class, and hundreds of students attend classes together; The remaining hour is taught in small classes with more than 20 students in each class.
Australian universities have a short class time, which requires students to have strong self-study ability and independent thinking ability after class. A few days before the big class, the professor put the lecture notes on the school website for students to download, and then the professor will explain every knowledge point on the lecture notes in detail. There are a lot of knowledge points and information in the lecture notes of each big class, which often cover dozens of pages of textbooks. This requires students to get ready before class and prepare according to the reading requirements of the teaching materials marked on the handout, otherwise it will be difficult to digest and absorb all the knowledge points in just one hour. Of course, if you still have some questions you don't understand, don't be afraid, because there will be two big classes a week, and there will be corresponding small classes next week, and you will review handouts and practice exercises. Help students deepen their understanding of various knowledge points and cultivate their ability to solve practical problems with theory. Of course, in addition to these three-hour fixed courses, each course will have several hours of problem-solving time every week. Students can take their own problems to see the tutor and seek one-on-one help.
Australia's education system does not tie students to school, but encourages students to have enough time to get in touch with society, do some part-time jobs, participate in various school club activities and enjoy family life. My after-school life is also colorful and meaningful, and the extra gains after class are a bright spot in my study abroad life.
Academic evaluation
Generally speaking, the final grade of each course consists of two parts, one is the usual paper grade, the other is the final exam grade, and some subjects will also have mid-term exams.
It takes a lot of effort for students to finish an excellent paper. Generally speaking. At the beginning of the semester, the professor will announce the time to hand in the paper this semester. When two weeks approaches that date, the content of this paper will be brewed. For example, when I was a junior, I took a course called Asian Capital Markets. One of the papers is that the professor gives the names of five outstanding listed companies in Asia, and then let us analyze the advantages and disadvantages of each company by analyzing the financial statements, marketing strategies, board structure and enterprise management of these five companies in the past five years. Combined with the development forecast of each company in the next few years, write a report to investors, suggesting which company's stock should be bought if you want to get the biggest profit return in the future. Just looking at the requirements of this paper, we know that there is a lot of preparatory work to be done. Two weeks in advance, I will start to do a lot of information inquiry and analysis. On the websites of these five listed companies and major financial news data websites, I will look up the information I need and analyze it after I find it. In the process of analysis, we should use the financial theory and financial model learned in class and books. And I have to look at the arguments of many experts in academic reports published in journals to prove my inference. After this series of preparations, I began to work on this paper. Completing a thesis in university can not only deepen our understanding and application of textbook knowledge, but also expand our reading, broaden our horizons and exercise our ability to solve practical problems.
The second part of the academic assessment is the final exam, which focuses on testing students' understanding and mastery of theory and their ability to solve practical problems. Famous schools in Australia have high requirements for students' academic qualifications. One of them is that the professor doesn't draw the key points before the exam, and any knowledge point mentioned in the handout and textbook may be tested, so students can't get cold feet. This requires students to firmly grasp the knowledge points they have learned. Moreover, the number of exam questions in prestigious schools is also quite large. If you don't understand the knowledge thoroughly or rarely do the questions at ordinary times, the speed of doing the questions is very slow, which will lead to the failure to complete all the exam questions in the end, thus affecting the exam results.
Studying in a prestigious Australian school is actually a process of "survival". Students need to know how to survive in a prestigious school and finally get a diploma. That is to study hard, there is no other shortcut. But I believe that every student who graduated from a famous Australian school will be proud of this experience and feel that all the efforts are worth it. Because we have really learned knowledge, unlike many graduates of Huada University who recall their four years of college and feel that they have learned nothing and wasted their four years of youth. It is precisely because of this that we graduates of Australian universities will have an understandable competitive advantage in future employment, that is, during our three years in famous Australian universities, universities have equipped us with a solid knowledge system, strong self-study ability, analytical ability and comprehensive ability to solve practical problems. Thanks to this experience of studying in Australia, I have learned a lot and grown a lot. This will be the wealth of my life.
Although my studies are very tense, during my three years in Melbourne University, I not only received a world-class academic education, but also made many excellent friends from all over the world. More importantly, during this period, the school has cultivated my strong self-study ability, independent thinking ability and the ability to integrate theory with practice, which has given me a very obvious competitive advantage in the subsequent job search.
Studying in Australia: studying and living in Melbourne University, a famous Australian school.