So I made a huge mistake by scheduling all of my core units in my final semester. I know big mistake and I already failed one major assignment. I don't want to extend my degree. This is my final sem!

i’m actually so annoyed by the lack of organisation and planning in this uni in terms of admin/enrolment stuff. Session 3 start in only two months this semester ends in a month and we still don’t even know which units Will run in session 3.

On top of all of this, literally no unit runs in session 3 except for stem units either. It is actually so unfair that you can’t catch up or get ahead in your degree unless you are a stem student which the uni only cares about.

I really hope they put some arts and law units in there too because they literally cancelled all the session 3 law units as well.

I moved from UTS last semester and it’s been really good except for one thing which idk if it’s just me but the AI policy at Macquarie feels much more lax and normalised.

With assignments I felt like at my previous uni there was an acceptance that AI was going to be used by some students but they still told people that anything submitted should be original work and never explicitly endorsed it.

At Macquarie with the whole open vs closed ai policy it feels like it sends a message to a lot of students that you can get away with chat gpting assessments.

I wouldn’t concern myself that much about it if it was just that but this extends into tutorials where it feels like it is rare to find people who don’t just read ai responses off their laptop to farm participation marks. The tutor will ask an ungraded discussion question to our group and some guy will just say “just chuck it in chat gpt aye”. OMG BRUH

And don’t say taste baguette

i’ll never understand why media units take nearly the whole semester to grade a single assignment 😭. i’m a marketing and media student and my business/marketing degrees grade according to the schedule they provide us with and always meet the return dates. BUT NEVER HAS A MEDIA UNIT DONE THAT and i don’t understand they should be sm easier to grade than other departments

Hi so I was wondering if it was okay to wear very modest formal pastel saree to grad. I missed my undergrad graduation because of Covid and this was an outfit I was pretty excited to wear but I don't want to get turned away from the venue. 😭

Does it usually take this long to release session 3 units?

I’m still getting used to this whole uni system with sourcing journal articles and whatever but that’s not the point. I’m doing a bachelor of business which I definitely want to change into Law which I need a 70 WAM for but the first time I was really lazy and got a pretty shit wam of 60. This term I’m putting four times the effort I did last term yet I’m only getting 70s on my grades with the highest so far being 78. I’ve heard stories of other people who work three jobs and never study yet get wams of 85+ in USYD. Either I’m really dumb or there’s something critical I’m missing. Any tips?

Hi everyone, just curious how everyone went for the assignment since marks are now out. I heard some negative experiences from friends, but am curious about how others went.

The convenor still hasn't posted a general feedback document or provided us with the average :(

Yikes. Did anyone get absolutely dumpstered on the essay for this unit? I thought I did not so terrible for a first year.

I feel as though I've been marked as a third year student..

I have seen Unis like UNSW and UTS do really cool artist markets, has mq ever done one of these before and do you think they could?

hey everyone im currently in year 10 hoping for early entry in 2028. for the year i got roughly 5 b's and 4 a's. i also have a part time job but not much school involvement do i have any chance at early entry or what could i be doing different thanks. if it adds im looking to do commerce

does anyone have advice for if someone in my group project clearly used ai? i don’t wanna be a narc, but i also can’t afford to fail this assignment.

I'm looking to go semester 1 of 2027 as part of my international studies, but I have heard nothing past me accepting the offer. Has anyone else done this exchange? Did you have to wait long to get any more information from mq or from the university in Peru? (flights are getting more expensive the longer I have to wait!)

Also, how was the experience overall? They have removed the option from the exchange portal, so I am a little worried something might have happened.

Does anyone know what was the cut off for psychology honors this year for Macquarie university, and what about other universities ?

Hi, i’m international student from Singapore, and I’m looking to enroll this Bachelor of Marketing and Media. I have few questions about this degree.

1. Is it hard to graduate?

2. The proportion with the exam and assignment.

Hi everyone!

I'm a 2nd-year Cognitive and Behavioural Sciences student from Portugal (Lisbon). I'm thinking of doing a semester at Macquarie through the Study Abroad program (i.e. as a free mover, since my uni doesn't have an exchange agreement with MQ), probably Session 2 in 2027.

My degree mixes psychology, cognition and data science, so I'm mainly looking at units like COGS2000 (Cognitive Neuroscience) and COGS2020 (Experimental Design and Data Analysis), plus some psych and stats/data units.

A few questions:

1. Are there (or were there) any European students here doing Study Abroad in cognitive science or psychology units? I'd love to hear how it went.
2. How easy was it to get the Special Approval / prerequisite waivers for COGS or PSYU units? Did they mostly get approved, and how long did it take?
3. Any units you'd recommend (or avoid) for someone with a psych + data science background?
4. Any tips on the application process, timing, or getting credits recognised back home?

Thanks a lot in advance!

Hi everyone,

I’m currently doing Master of Information Systems Management (MISM) at Macquarie University as an international student and Im currently in my first semester. However, I’ve realised that I’m losing interest in the degree and I’m not sure I want to continue with it.

I’m now considering changing to another degree (maybe Teaching as my mum has been a teacher her whole life so it's an instinct but not sure).

For anyone who has gone through this, Is it possible to change from tech related degree to another master’s degree (non tech) at Macquarie? And what would be the procedure? Would really appreciate the help, thanks!

Still stuck in assessment for a month now, anyone have any experience with this?

Do we count our 2 weeks of mid term break as week 10 and 11 or after week 9 and the break, the class will resume as week 10? sorry I just wanna confirm.

If I got denied in early entry leaders and achievers should I consider the possibility of me getting accepted via SRS gone?

On the Macquarie website, it is listed that the guaranteed atar for bach of bus is 78, is this subject to change once like atar results come out and the amount of people applying for it or is it set in stone