In addition to bidding for modules, after that we have to ballot for tutorials. This is precisely what it sounds like. It's like choosing a primary school. If there are more applicants than vacancies, then who gets in is determined by balloting. We get to choose the tutorial group we want and rank our preferences. At the end of the round, the system assigns us to a class. I was fortunate enough to get my first choice for everything, so I have no idea how the appeal process works. That's why there are still no tutorials this week, and I only have 10 hours of lectures for the whole week.

It does seem slack, but the lecturers are going quite fast and it's quite difficult to keep up.

ZQ's right about one thing. This is very different from JC where everything was nicely allocated and scheduled. All we had to do was to show up. Here we get to select the modules we want to take, we choose the time slots, plan our own timetable, weigh the costs of bidding for a module, consider our preferences for tutorial slots. It's all very independent and requires a lot of self discipline, especially as tutorial hours aren't very long either. A lot of this will probably be self study. We need to find out a lot of things by ourselves too. The information is buried all over the place, in obscure and tiny little links which appear suddenly. Sometimes the information contradicts itself. Other times it doesn't appear till it's too late. Well, independent learning.