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Round 2 demand and allocation report is out! Again, this will be helpful with determining which courses to bid for in Round 3/how you should rank them in Round 3 as you’d know how competitive it would be to bid for the course. Get your friends/juniors to follow @NUSguide for more tips/reminders, as we continue to walk you through course registration, tutorial registration, and more! 🙌🏻

Round 2 course allocation results have started to show up on Edurec earlier today! To view: Edurec > academics > academic records > view courses (This is although the official release is tomorrow at 9 a.m.) Round 3 begins on 4 August, 9 a.m. Get your friends/juniors to follow @NUSguide for more tips/reminders, as we continue to walk you through course registration, tutorial registration, and more! 🙌🏻

Also, final reminder for this which also ends today (but at 23:59)! If you already got your laptop, an iPad does have an extra perk of acting as a “second monitor” (other than just a larger easy-to-take-around/easy-to-scribble-on device) that some are unaware of! https://support.apple.com/en-sg/102597 This is most seamless if your laptop is already a MacBook; you simply go to the extended display setting, and this can work with your iPad unconnected to the MacBook. For windows laptops, it’s less direct, but there are easy workarounds to still allow for it after connecting a USB cable (specialised but free apps like Spacedesk). A second display screen might be helpful for productivity: e.g. one device for playing a lecture video/displaying reading material, and the other device for note-taking/writing (or in some courses, programming). If you’re using the @ThisCounted offer using their unique link, it’s a good idea not to wait till the last hours. The last time they ran a campaign, Apple’s student verification platform crashed and had down-time in their last hours with the last-minute spike in traffic. Get your friends/juniors to follow @NUSguide for more tips/reminders, as we continue to walk you through course registration, tutorial registration, and more! 🙌🏻

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Reminder that CourseReg ends today at 12 p.m.! Again, there is no submission button after you have ranked your options, and whatever is there simply gets automatically submitted at 12 p.m. If you bid yesterday, it may make sense to check the current vacancy:demand ratio to see if it has substantially changed by this morning/before the end time. This may help you consider whether to change your ranking of courses depending on how badly you want a particular course, or if the demand is too much higher than vacancy such that it’d be a waste of your time “Rank 1” points to still pick the course. The ranking of options does matter. Refer to the image for how this works: Priority Score = A (first table “points”) x B (second table “points”) x C (third table “points” where Rank 1 course gives the most points) Our academic plan declaration advice would have helped you for A (first table). You’d now want to be strategic with C as that affects each course bid’s total priority score. Get your friends/juniors to follow @NUSguide for more tips/reminders, as we continue to walk you through course registration, tutorial registration, and more! 🙌🏻

P.S. if you're bored, you can try out the this.sg/personality student personality quiz that's been circulating around (and was started by nus students) 👀