CourseReg Round 1 opens at 9 a.m. tomorrow and closes at 12 p.m. on 21 July (ie the next day). It is not first-come-first-serve.
Round 1 is a protected round.
Students will be able to select courses (subject to meeting course pre-requisite, co-requisite and preclusion rules) in this round if the courses can be used towards:
(i) Programme (Faculty, Major, Specialisation) requirements
(ii) Second Major requirements
(iii) Direct admission/restricted Minor requirements
(iv) Prescribed English requirements (i.e. courses offered by CELC)
Students will vie for a spot in the course within the available places allotted to their student category (e.g. separate numbers for UG and GD).
Note: if you had done what we suggested previously, you may have declared the major associated with e.g. UEs you want to clear as a “second major”. This would then already allow you to bid for them in Round 1. In this round and future rounds, having declared it as such would also give priority (as part of the priority scoring rubrics) against someone else who did not do so.
Ranking of courses does matter (a better rank gives more points for bidding).
You can find past year demand/allocation info at https://courserekt.vercel.app/ which may be helpful when you want to strategise your course preferences! (typically, courses which often have excess vacancies don’t have to be as heavily prioritised during bidding—one may be able to afford to rank this lower).
If you found these useful, do share our channel @NUSguide with your friends/juniors — we share uni tips/hacks throughout the year! 🙌🏻
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