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Yay! got a distinction for this one Hope all you guys did well!

You'd be weeping if you got my mark, but I'm glad to have survived.

In other words I'm probably just as chuffed as you, but by being so is somewhat unreasonable.

Congrats on all those distinctions. You must be quite a smart cookie, hexium.

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As soon as I'd written that it occurred to me what an odd expression it actually is. So a google on the etymology produces something like an answer... Well Noel Coward once translated it into English from American as "clever biscuit", which doesn't really help...

The "smart" part translates quite simply; but what about this "cookie" thing?

Well you have tough cookies too. My guess is that a "tough cookie" is an older term than a "smart cookie". Any old salt knew that a sea biscuit was a waste of a wonderful building material. If you were as tough as the kind of biscuit they used to expect Jack Tar to eat you were ... well ... hard-bitten, I suppose one would say.

Once you've got tough cookies, you can derive all sorts of other kinds of cookies from them. Like smart ones, for instance. If anyone asks, just quote this as if there's absolutely no question whatsoever over its correctness. Smart cookies are like tough cookies, only they're no longer biscuits, really.

Haha! I would have mod you up as insightful if this forum supported mod points Hope I can pull the same stunt with my second semester.

"Straight A's" from beginning to end? It should be within reach.

Is S2 also your home strait? For me, in 5 months I may well be able to say "I've done the impossible". Four more to go if I didn't supp or fail OS and Arch.

Actually I'm almost more on tenterhooks to hear whether I made it through Numeric I. Met the bloke who passed it last year S2 at one of my exams, actually. He gave me some tips on how to go about Numeric 2 (which he says is more difficult), which I suspect I'll never be applying, somehow.

I'm sure you will be able to say just that
I wish it was my last semester. I still need to do 2012 S1. It's supposed to be 3 first year modules if Unisa doesn't screw me around. I see that they have changed the wording in their documentation from "any 4 applicable modules" to "any 4 of the following modules" and that really pisses me off. I did one of the "4 applicable modules" already (Logic 1) but that subject is not in their list of "any 4 of the following modules". I guess I will have to contact them .

I think the general rule is that you "lock in" to the rules that were applicable when you started. That's fair. It allows you to plan properly.

Certainly as far as mine goes, they seem to have me on the "old rules" still. The new rules require 10 Y3 modules, I've taken 8 (according to the system as it once was), and myUnisa has me down as "Final Year Student". I won't fret too much if all it takes to finish is S1 next year, though. More knowledge probably won't do me any harm.

Hopefully they apply the same kind of rule to listed subjects. Are you on one of the named streams?

Numerical methods is also out. I'll be tackling Numerical 2 despite the bad performance in 1.
Slow Eddy where do you see "Final Year Student" I registered for semester 2 which will be my last but I don't see this written anywhere

Numerical. Mine are not out, so I'm probably a marginal case if anything.

There's no bad pass in Numerical Methods. Anything north of 50 is pretty good. Well done!

"Final Year Student" appears on your academic record, I see. Do you see it on yours? If not, perhaps you missed the checkbox for "Can Finish This Year" during registration? Hmm ... perhaps they just put that on your record on your say-so, and it does not mean one is finishing on the old scheme?

Mine says "Qualification not completed" I did check the box. Maybe its done manually after some audit or something.

2 degrees north - very happy with the outcome

2 degrees north is a result you can safely boast about.

Maybe 2 degrees north in Intro to Databases isn't something to be particularly proud of (though one is still entitled to be relieved), but in Numerical Methods? That's a pretty good mark. Any better and you'd have to give up this computer science nonsense and become an actuary.

Certainly in Durban, twice that I've been there, about a third of the candidates have simply not pitched. And then the rest of us have looked rather grey in the gills when we finally staggered out of the hall.

Yup,
Proposed Qualification: BSC (02089)
With specialisation in : Information Technology and Computer Science: Software Engineering Stream

I wonder if I can get mine changed to a "stream"? I'm on the general BSc. There didn't (and still doesn't) seem like there was much point in changing the descriptor, because it's not something like eg. BSc (Elec Eng), where the stuff in parentheses has a well-established and significant meaning. Even so, it would be probably slightly more convenient if the piece of paper spells out that it's "COS" without reference to schedules of credits.

Hopefully they allow you to do interesting modules to finish it off, anyway.