YEAR 2 SEM 2 (AY15/16) MODULE REVIEW

Modules taken this semester:

1. DSC2006 Operations Management

Grade expected: B+
Actual grade: B- / S

I took this module when it was still super slack. Heard that now there's weekly assignments or idk what.

This module was really popular with engineering students hahah.

Definitely a easy relaxing module but the bellcurve was insane. I got a B- so I SU-ed it away.
Quite an interesting module as you get to learn about lean system and six sigma (which I think are pretty cool stuffs to know about).

But I'm more of a marketing person, ops really bores me.

The lecturer is fine :-)

2. GEM1536 Darwin and evolution B

Expected grade: B+
Actual grade: B

Super humorous prof, love how relaxing this module is.

If you used to be a bio student, then welcome back to this whole 'evolution' thing again, yeap..

Frankly speaking I really don't like bio and evolution, so I found this module boring.
I'm not interested in the life of Charles Darwin, neither am I interested in his letters, his friends, his enemies, his school, his family, his life...

But it's definitely a relaxing module for you to overload because there is only one finals MCQ paper + prof is funny and knowledgeable - so why not?

3. MKT2401A Asian Markets and Marketing Management 

Grade expected: A-
Actual grade: B+

I really enjoy marketing modules and this is definitely a great lvl 2k module to take, after MKT1003X. :-)

Case studies were all very interesting and I find the midterms/finals quite easy to score as they're all just logical questions + calculation questions. Felt like I've learnt a lot about marketing in asian markets through this mod. Awesome mod! Project might be a little time consuming but it's worth it.

4. ST3131 Regression Analysis 

Lecturer: Wang Jun Shan

Grade expected: B-
Actual grade: A-

It was the prof's first time lecturing in NUS.
She sighs into the mike and shakes her head all the time (yeah girl, I feel your pain too)
It was quite hard to understand because she mutters into the mike + there's an accent too. She don't explain theorems, she will only be writing down calculations for you.  Sorry, I didn't learn anything much from her, I self-learnt many of the things from PSU online/google, yeap.

Do well for the project and do all the tutorials and you'll be fine.

5. ST3247 Simulation 

Lecturer: Vik Gopal

Vik is awesome lah, really.

Grade expected : B+
Actual grade : B

Studied hard for this module as it was the only challenging mod for this sem but I think I still fell short. This module is all about simulating stuff in R.

Is it useful..?? Actually, I don't know man. O_O Is generating random numbers a useful skill?? I have no idea hahaha but it's vik, so I just took it. Plus, it sounded cool.

You might be happy to know that this compulsory module ST4231 is a continuation of ST3247 so I think it's better for you to take this module :-)