The Beginning of Another Semester

Today, the May 2008 semester begins.

There will be an orientation today for the new students. So, all my classes will only commence tomorrow.

If you are confused with everything that is happening (i.e. subject registrations, classroom clashes, classrooms packed like sardines, lectures cancelled even though they should be on, lectures starting without you, etc), don't fret - I'm just as confused as you! Let's just hope all these things get fixed real soon.

Exams Are Over!

By now, most of my students would have finished sitting for their examinations. I do not know if they still have their Religious/Moral Studies exam paper to take, but I know for a fact that the sitting for my papers have ended.

In fact, I have been steadily marking exam papers for a few days now. I should be marking them now, but I've decided to take a short break and just write abit. Just a little distraction for me. It's exhausting work, I tell you...

Well, dear students. How was it? Too easy (I believe most of it is!)? Or too tough? Either way, you should take the time to relax now and go have some fun. Do not worry about the results yet (some of you have started asking me about it already...). All will be revealed in due time - and according to my calculations, sometime around the end of May or maybe early June. Don't quote me on that though. Only the Exam Unit will know.

Ok, enough of ranting.

With my trusty red ball-point pen and an almost empty strip of Paracetamol, I now go back to the pile of exam papers on my desk...

Tun Dr. Mahathir and his blog

Everyone is starting to blog! Even our former prime minister, Tun Dr. Mahathir has set up a blog of his own at www.chedet.com. His blog is titled simply Dr. Mahathir Mohamad. The first entry into his blog was at 1.47 am on the 1st of May 2008. And judging from the number of comments seen at his blog, his first foray into blogosphere looks like a success.

In case you didn't know, Che Det is Dr. M's pet nickname as a child and he used it as a pen name many many years ago before he became the prime minister of Malaysia. Now he's using it again to write in cyberspace.

This will be one blog to watch!

Exam Schedule for MD1001 and MD1002

Here are the details of the final exam for MD1001 and MD1002:

MD1001 - Introduction to Multimedia
Date: 30/4/2008
Time: 2-4 pm
Venue: Room 7.2
Invigilator: Mr. Foong

MD1002- Introduction to Computers
Date: 28/4/2008
Time: 3-5 pm
Venue: Room 7.12
Invigilator: Kathy

MD1001 Coursework Marks

Here is the Coursework marks for MD1001: Introduction to Multimedia for the May 2008 exam.

Please take note of the following things:

• The green column is your final Coursework Marks. The (/60) simply means that your Coursework accounts for 60% of your subject grade total.
• So. to pass your Coursework component, you need to have 21 marks or higher in the CW column (shaded green).
• The marks here are unofficial. Official marks/grades are only released by the Exam Unit.

Here is the link to your MD1001 Coursework Marks.

If you have any questions, post it in the comments section below.

Passing Marks Corrected

My apologies. I made a mistake in posting the wrong passing mark for the Coursework component for the following subjects: IT101, IT107 and IT205.

The passing mark for the Coursework component of these 3 subjects should be 14 out of 40.

I've already made the necessary amendments to the individual blog posts. Please take note.

IT102/CS1201 Coursework Marks for May 2008 Exam

Here is the link to your IT102/CS1201 Coursework Marks.

A couple of things to note:

• The green column is your final Coursework Marks.
• For Diploma in IT students: The (/40) simply means that your Coursework accounts for 40% of your subject grade total. To pass your Coursework component, you need to have 14 marks or higher in the CW column (shaded green).
• For Diploma in Engineering students, the (/50) means that your Coursework accounts for 50% of your subject grade total. To pass your Coursework component, you need to get 17.5 marks or higher in the CW column (shaded green).
• The marks here are unofficial. Official marks/grades are only released by the Exam Unit.

Any questions? Just post them in the comments section below.