u/Puzzled-Awareness166

Like I thought I had cooked it but how was the median grade 12.5/25?? It feels diabolical that people are nearly failing out of economics... But It's not even surprising given the questions..

I could explain every concept because it's not even hard to get your head around but most the questions that I got in midsem were just uninspiring.

Littered with grammar errors, most of the exam was just math that you had to remember and did not really require you to think economically, just derive something.

Perhaps I am delusional but I think this unit needs to chill on the year 11 math revision which nobody really cares about, and someone must have really lost the plot if without the online quizzes half the students would be borderline failing.

Is it just how this guy operates his course? I am talking about Huy Vu

I am doing fine, but I feel deep disgust and betrayal about the approach to this unit and I hope finals is not as low quality

Hello, I am lucky enough to spend half a year exchanging at one of these universities soon. Since more people from these schools want to exchange at my university, the only question that remains for me is where to go.

I have consulted a friend in Japan who told me Keio has 'prestige' and that nagoya and hokkaido are fine but just not necessarily the 'best' public universities. I have also heard that the Imperial Universities are going to be preferred over private in academic competitiveness, which would then introduce the question between nagoya or hokkaido and that decision is shrouded in ambiguity to me.

What matters for me is mainly having a smooth and positive experience. I am not set on living in Tokyo, I believe Nagoya and Sapporo will be great too. It's very difficult to decide where I want to be from just researching the internet

The host university matters to a certain extent, I would hate to feel isolated as an international student, or be somewhere with a weaker University culture where people just do the minimum attendance and just leave. I will be mostly taking Japanese language and some elective courses in English.

I would kindly appreciate any advice- Is there a clear choice? Any important information and personal anecdotals on these universities would help me

‘Potential academic referee’ is a thing you need now for exchange applications?

As 2nd year undergrad, my professors don’t even know I exist. My tutors might know my name but I haven’t developed relationships with them to the point where they would be capable of writing something like that.

I also heard that for the exchange application it used to be a personal statement and now they want a 3 minute video.

Anyone who has experience with exchange please share your experiences