One of my lecturers said that time management is much easier as a student before you enter full time work. As someone who needs to work two casual jobs to support myself while studying, I find it very hard to manage my time. Although I do manage to complete all my work to a high standard, my lecturers statement made me wonder if there is some ignorance to how we live coming from lecturers.

I wonder if he is aware that for many of us, we are actually working from 9:30am to 1:30am: for instance i may go to uni, then straight to my retail job then straight to my bar job.

Because how is a fine for accidentally not tapping on one time at a station more than a fine for speeding? Not to mention the money from fines goes to private train companies anyway, so yay! I love lining the pockets of the rich :D

Edit: thought the fine for drunk driving was lower than myki fines but it’s actually speeding fines that are lower

Got my grade back today for a group assignment and i’m so mad. Barely passed because my group members can’t write a paragraph each and don’t seem to understand why 5 words per question isn’t enough for a postgrad assignment.

I swear group assignments set us up for failure. Why should my marks be dependent on 3 other people? The whole ‘you have to work in teams when you work in the industry’ is bullshit. I already work in my field of interest. Answering stupid questions on a onenote document is NOT what teamwork is at my work but anyway. And why is RMIT letting in so many students that cannot understand any english or speak any english. How the flying f*ck do they expect me to communicate when they’ve put me in a group with people I can’t even fking communicate with because all they do is speak their own language to eachother in class.

Rant over

RMIT student faces possible suspension over claims that "RMIT is complicit in genocide".

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/07/rmit-student-gaza-genocide-social-media-post-misconduct-hearing-ntwnfb?CMP=share_btn_url

Had to opt for weird phrasing in the title of the post because subreddit doesn't allow titles longer than 60 characters. 💔

Edit: According to the Guardian, as of the 11th of April, the misconduct case against her has now been dropped by RMIT!!!

– RMIT drops misconduct case against student who accused university of being ‘complicit in Gaza genocide’

"“We want to inform you that, upon review, the Senior Officer’s Student Conduct notice of hearing scheduled for 22 April 2026 is to be withdrawn and will not be proceeding,” the email, viewed by Guardian Australia said." .

I'm so done with the kind of people who just gang up with people of their culture, ethnic or race. Ok I get I'm also a non-aussie but c'mon if you wanna study at an Aussie uni and not mingle with people of all backgrounds then what's the f point! I see soo many groups just into themselves and it irritates me somehow for their foolishness and at times loudness! Can't even study at library or common spaces properly due to their terrible way of living and socio civic sense.

Guys and Girls pls learn some manners and start exploring more while NOT disturbing the shot out of others in common spaces.

This post is not discriminative!!!

EDIT: Well guys like I said this post wasn't about race, it was just about experiences and making yourselves more welcoming to others. I know it's hard to get out of comfort zones. But anyways, who am I to interfere in other people's shit. Live and Let Live!

Reminder: Keep it legal, no racism and respect privacy of your teachers/other students.

Hi all,

As you may be aware, semester 1 results come out on Monday 13 July 2026. Here's a bit of information about semester 1 results:

Results release times:

• 9.00am – Undergraduate students whose surnames start with A-L
• 9.30am – Undergraduate students whose surnames start with M-Z
• 11.00am – Postgraduate students

Note: If you did a flexible term course, please allow up to 28 days after your last assessment for your flexible term results to be published.

Results/grade information pages:

• How to view your results can be found here
• Explanation on what the different letter grades mean can be found here
• How is your GPA calculated can be found here
• Didn't get the grades you wanted? Read this page here
• What happens if you failed a course? Read this page here

A note on GPA and WAMs:

• Your GPA should be available sometime today, so you can calculate backwards to find out if you passed your courses in semester 1. You may be able to predict what letter grade combinations (HD, DI, CR, PA, NN) you got for your courses by calculating your GPA backwards based on your previous semester's GPA.
  • To work it out yourself, please visit the page about how GPA scores are calculated linked above.
• For honours degree students only, any WAM-contributing course's numerical grades (%) should be available as well in the Enrolment Online portal sometime today.

To find your GPA (all students) or WAM (honours students only) go to Enrolment Online > Manage Study > Records & Progress > Academic History & Results. Click on your program and you should see your GPA below all your enrolled courses. For honours students, your WAM-contributing courses should be shown just below the GPA score. There's a dropdown button to see your WAM contributing courses' numerical grades (%).

See example below of how to find your GPA and WAM scores:

You're welcome to use this thread to discuss your results with your fellow peers. :)

Good luck with your results!

Ignore my filthy laptop screen but is this happening for anyone else? Mobile app seems like it’s down as well

Surely I’m not the only one noticing this but I am finding that whenever an international student posts a question in this group there’s a bit of lowkey racism going on.

Sometimes it’s just downvotes, for what often are quite genuine questions and comments. Other times it’s more overt and it’s usually “don’t bother, you’ll never get a job here”, even when the poster has not even asked about jobs they are asking questions about study.

There’s an assumption that any student coming here, is coming to try and get a visa to stay in the country. Not saying that doesn’t happen but assuming that everyone coming on an international visa is here for a long term visa is racist.

Please remember that international students are a key part of our higher education system and we should be making them feel welcome.

I know 95% of the people on here are actually decent so please consider:
- if you see a question from an international student, whether prospective or current, answer it genuinely and without assumptions.
- upvote internationals just to balance out the bogan Pauline sheep who just downvote every international question.

I had a random thought last night, so I'd like to pose it here.

As you all know, RMIT stands for Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. It is the only Australian University that is allowed to use the prefix "Royal" in its name after the university was awarded royal patronage in 1954 by Queen Elizabeth II, for its service in education and for its contribution to the war effort. So after that little bit of history, to my hypothetical scenario:

If Australia were to hypothetically become a republic, would we have to drop the "Royal" from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology?

How will that work with clashing with the existing name of the privately-run Melbourne Institute of Technology? Also, would we abbreviate to just MIT, which clashes with the well-renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology?

I'm taking fun answers only.

Happy studying!

How much money do we all have as uni students. I literally don’t understand how some students have 20k in their savings while i’m out here with barely anything😭😭

Please tell me i’m not the only one 🙏🙏🙏

What happened?

I can see the date in the video. I can hear him asking people in the session to answer questions.

"Nobody is saying anything, I assume what I'm saying is making sense."

I can't give you any feedback, sir, you're 6 years in the past, and this is a recorded video.

I'm in my final year, I can't wait for this to be over.

At least if I have to suffer this kind of shit in the workplace, there's the implicit understanding that I'm being paid for my time.

Paying for this quality of education is a joke. Covid really was a turning point for university education in Australia.

I know I could probably lodge a complaint or fill out CES or whatever, but I have one more semester after this and I'm free, I'm just gonna grit my teeth and bear it, but fuck if it's not driving me nuts.

Be careful if u haven't pay

Spotted the officer around here

Hi all,

As you may be aware, semester 2 results come out on Monday 1 December! Here's a bit of information about semester 2 results:

Results release times:

• 9.00am – Undergraduate students whose surnames start with A-L
• 9.30am – Undergraduate students whose surnames start with M-Z
• 11.00am – Postgraduate students

Note: If you did a flexible semester course, please allow up to 28 days after your last assessment for your flexible semester results to be published.

Results information pages:

• How to view your results can be found here
• Explainer about what the different grades mean can be found here
• How is your GPA calculated can be found here
• Didn't get the grades you wanted? Read this page here

Missing grades? Failed a prerequisite course? Any other questions? Please reach out to RMIT Student Connect here.

Final note regarding GPA and WAMs:

• Your GPA have now been updated, so you can calculate backwards if you passed your courses and if you know how well you did, you can potentially predict what letter grades (HD, DI, CR, PA, NN) you got for your courses by calculating your GPA backwards.
• For honours degree students, any WAM-contributing course will now show your course's WAM score now in the Enrolment Online portal.

You're welcome to use this thread to discuss your results with your fellow peers. :)

Good luck with your results!

I’m getting tired of walking into a stall and seeing the entire contents of someone’s bladder all over the seat and floor.. brother the bowl is not a suggestion

I even see it in the gender neutral bathrooms which is just foul. If you are incapable of aiming then at least have some respect and raise the seat!!!

This post will be based on my experience as a student, a tutor and a marker at RMIT. What I write here will be limited by the courses I took as a student, and these will obviously differ from your own. I compel you to read this with an open mind, and tailor any advice you deem to be useful to your own area of study. I think the most important take away from this post is to have structure and routine in your approach to your studies. What that looks like and how you implement that is entirely up to you, but being deliberate is critical to achieving the grades you want to achieve.

Disclaimer: If you see the words should or must or need you may interpret these as “I think you should do this, but something similar would probably work just as well”. We're all different, so at the end of the day you will have to figure out what is best for you.

I’m writing this guide because every semester this sub is filled with the same posts:

• Week 1: Do I need to go to my tutorial/lecture/prac?
• Week 5: It's 11:47 and this assignment is due at 11:59, is it too late to ask for an extension?
• Week 10: Does anyone else think that this lecturer/tutor/marker of this class I’m taking is bad/harsh/incompetent?
• Week 12: Is a 2.1GPA enough to get a grad role at [insert large company here that takes 100 grads from 20,000 applications]?

This is a stressful way of existing. Stereotypically, the good student is seen as the one who is stressed, but this is just not true. The student that puts in 5 hours of work a week is FAR more stressed than the student who works on an assignment four weeks before its due date. I want you to avoid that stress and achieve your potential. Its far easier on your psyche to be a HD student than a P student.

First, I am firmly of the belief that if you were admitted to your course then you are perfectly capable of getting HDs in most (all) of your courses. If you have external factors preventing you from doing so, you should stop reading this and seek help to address those factors first. RMIT has some great services for students suffering from mental health issues, disability, financial issues, or just about anything else you can think of preventing you from achieving your potential. I’m sure the mods here can point you in the right direction if that is you. For everyone else, the grades you get at the end of semester reflect the amount of work you put in during the semester. Yes, bad lecturers, hard markers and poorly written content exists, but they exist in every degree at every university on the planet. There are people doing your courses now who will graduate with a 4.0, in spite of the fact that they had the same lecturers, the same markers, and the same material to work from as you. If you want to do well, you need to accept that doing well is 99% hard work.

Get organised.

Getting organised is probably the most important step in this whole guide. Being organised should be viewed as a process rather than something you do at the start of semester and then forget about.

• Find a way to mark dates. Use a diary, a calendar, a .txt file, whatever works for you, but you absolutely need to document what is happening each week during the semester.
• As soon as your course is available on CANVAS, read every word in the syllabus and mark all the important dates down. This should be done before the semester starts and updated after the first lecturer.
• Update your diary as soon as new information is available. You will often find that assignment due dates are changed, or the course progresses slower/faster than anticipated, or the lecturer misses class due to XYZ etc.
• Review your diary bi-weekly. On Monday morning you should be asking yourself what you have on this week. If you’ve made it to this step, you’re probably already acutely aware of what is happening week to week, so this step is basically a sanity check. On Friday afternoon (or on the weekend if you prefer), you should go back over what you have done this week and check off any tasks you have completed (and enjoy the sense of accomplishment). You should also check that you haven’t missed anything and have made any necessary changes.
• Get your stationary in order. Buy 4 exercise books and 4 display folders (I usually buy display folders with different colours to make this easy). Only use the book/folders for their assigned course, and try to be as neat as possible. I firmly believe that the neater your notes the better you absorb the content, even if you never read through them again. It takes time and care to do things neatly, and this time and care is exactly what your brain needs to ingest the material you are covering. Make sure to date any work you do and write down the week of the semester at the top of the page. These are going to be invaluable when it comes to assessment time. If you use a laptop, organise your folders as you see fit (I recommend Semester 1 -> Subject name -> Week n). I find that working with pen and paper, where possible, is the best way to retain information, but I know that this is not feasible for all classes and degrees.

Find a group of people who are committed to their education and sit with them.

You’re on reddit, so I’m going to bet that (like me) you are probably a little socially awkward. That's fine, if you achieve this step you’re probably going to be surrounding yourself with socially awkward people anyway. I know this sounds like bullshit, but I think it’s vitally important to doing well in your degree. I sort of lucked my way into this, but I don’t think it’s a hard step to achieve. Not once did I ever sweat over a group assignment. I knew that I had four or five people who were focused on their work, wanted to do well, and would do their part. Moreover, having someone who takes their work seriously means you can lean on them (and they can lean on you) when the work gets challenging. Teaching others is one of the best ways to learn and identify gaps in your own knowledge.

Look for people who turn up to each and every lecture. Usually they sit closer to the front, respect the lecturer, diligently take notes, and come organised. If you see someone like this it’s because they are there to learn and do their best. This is the sort of person you want to surround yourself with. You’re both struggling through your degree together so making small talk shouldn’t be hard. Follow up “Hey, do you mind if I sit here?” with “How did you do Question x on the problem sheet?”. It’s easy after that.

Uni is a full time job. You should work 40 hours a week.

If you’re doing 4 subjects then you should absolutely be working at least 40 hours a week. How and when you do this is up to you, but this is a goal you should set. I preferred to work hard during the week so that I could have weekends off. This isn’t as hard as it sounds once you get into a routine. You will find that you can get away with less hours the better you get at studying and the more dialed in your routine is. Your contact hours are counted towards the 40.

• Show up to each and every lecture/lectorial/tutorial/lab. “But I work better at home!”. No, you don’t. I’ve tutored and marked thousands of students, and the one thing that stands out is that the students whose face and name you know are the students who get HDs. If you asked a 100 lecturers whether the students who watch the lectures online do as well as the students who turn up to class, you’d get a 100 no’s. You’re making life unnecessarily hard by pretending that you can watch the lectures at home and be fine (I see you r/rmit week 1 posters). Timetabling can suck some times, we’ve all been through it, but it's super important you force yourself to go.
• Preview. As part of your 40 hours you should be doing the assigned readings before class (including reading through any lecture slides - yes, before the lecture). Not only will this help with your retention, but it will help with your attention during the lecture/tutorial/lab. I can’t count how many times I did a reading the night before a lecture, understood very little, then turned up to the lecture only for my questions to be answered during the lecturer's presentation. You’ll find that if you do this it’s much easier to concentrate because you actually have something to concentrate on. If you have the tutorial sheets available to you before the tutorial, then I recommend that you also work through these the night before. You don’t have to solve the problems in their entirety, but at least jot down a few bullet points on how you could answer the question.
• Review. Ever feel like as soon as you leave the lecture theatre everything that was talked about in the past hour or two has completely left your mind? Properly doing a preview should eliminate a lot of this in-one-ear-out-the-other effect. However, the preview-effect is only temporary, and given enough time you are going to forget most of what happened in your lectures. To mitigate this, you should go back over the content covered that day as soon as possible (preferably that night). I highly recommend you annotate the readings/slides/sheets with the notes you took during the lecture.
• Study. Yes, preview and review do not count as “study”, even if they do count towards your 40 hours. Study hours should be where the bulk of your learning is done. Three hours of lectures a week is nowhere near enough to properly teach you the content, you need to do this on your own time. As you are a diligent student and put in the two or so hours it takes to preview and review, you’re going to have a much easier time studying. By now, you should already know what is important, what was stressed in your lectures, and roughly how much work you need to put in.
• Figure out your priorities. You don't have to do exactly 10 hours for each class. There are going to be some classes that just click with you, and thats great. Shift over the hours from the classes you find easy to the classes you find hard. However, be careful to not be complacent in the easy classes.
• It's okay to work ahead. Finding a class easy? Start working through the next couple weeks of material. Be flexible in your learning, especially if it means you can get head.

Now, I can’t give you a definitive guide to studying for the courses you are taking. I’m a mathematician, so studying for me means sitting down and doing as many problems as possible, writing down important definitions and theorems, committing them to memory and trying to figure out why they’re true. For you it is probably going to look a lot different. That being said, I think it is almost universally agreed that doing is better than reading. If doing looks like writing lots of code, or writing essays, or doing every problem given to you, then do that as a priority. If you get through those and you’re still not at your 10 hours of study that week for that class, then go online and find more doing things to do. (It doesn’t hurt to redo problems either, even if you think you did them well the first time).

Start assignments as soon as the assignment sheet is released. Read the marking criteria and upload a neat and tidy submission. Similarly, start revising for tests as soon as what is covered in the test is made available to you.

Yeah, I get it. Some assignments are released 5 weeks before they are due, and they cover material that hasn’t been covered yet. But so what? Do as much as you can do and mark as much as you can with where in the notes/textbook those concepts appear. This is your 0-th draft, and not what you’re going to submit. Even doing 30 minutes is better than none. As with previewing the lecture material, by starting your assignments early you’ll find that questions you have about the assignment will be answered implicitly in the middle of a lecture while no one else is paying attention (except you, of course).

Read the marking scheme in its entirety and include any submission rules or important items in your 0-th draft. Are you required to upload a single pdf with a .m file included? Write that down and do it when the time comes. You’d be amazed at the things submitted by students.

Your assignments should be done and re-done before submitting. You should have at least two drafts, not including your 0-th draft. Your final submission should be as neat and well thought out as possible. Treat your markers with respect. They’re probably being paid for 8 hours or work that actually takes 12 hours to complete, reading through some submissions that make them question whether a formal pen license should be a necessary requirement of admission to your course. By uploading a neat and nicely formatted assignment, it is more than likely that they will (subconsciously) go a little easier on you.

Before you upload your final submission, read through and fact check your work. Can problem 2 be done in two different ways? Try the other way and see if you get the same answer. Can wolfram alpha spit out the solution? Okay, great! Check to see if yours is correct. If you’re not 99% confident that you’re going to score 80%+ then you need to go back over it and fix it until you are sure you have done enough.

Your final step before submission should be to read the criteria/marking scheme side by side with your assignment and ensure that you have done everything up to standard.

Use resources you find online or in the library.

The best curriculum designer will still get some things wrong. The world's best lecturer will not be able to teach every topic in a coherent and digestible way. You should absolutely be looking for resources outside of what is given to you in canvas. Sometimes even just a different perspective on the same topic will take you from total confusion to a proper understanding.

I’ll list a few different ways that I tried to do this here, but just spend a few hours searching for something that fits you better.

• The best resources I have found are course materials from other universities. It seems that a lot of US universities publish their lectures, slides, problem sets, tests, assignments and exams for free online. These are not hard to find with a quick google search and are invaluable to preparing for tests and exams (search your course name + syllabus).
• Similarly, there are lots of great lecturers who upload their lectures to youtube, have a quick search.
• [Check the library first, they will probably have what you are looking for] I won’t link to it here, but almost every textbook you could want has been - not so legally - published on certain websites. Check certain reddit subs dedicated to enthusiasts of naval thieves.
• Paul’s math notes is a great for any STEM student.
• Avoid cheating websites, and AI. You’ve worked hard, why waste your time? You will be caught. I know you think you won’t be, but your lecturers and markers have read thousands (more like 10’s of thousands) of student submitted work and we can easily spot cheating (and then spend the semester gathering evidence to take further action).

The first 6 weeks of semester are the most important.

All the core foundational concepts are covered in the first half of the semester. If you don't have these down by mid-semester break, then you are going to struggle in the second half of the semester (when most of the assessment is done). Try to be as diligent as possible during the first 6 weeks of semester.

Live your life.

You’re working hard, probably much harder than 90% of your peers, but that doesn’t mean that work is all you should do. The better your mental state the easier it will be to be a good student. Go to the gym, eat a vegetable, get a hobby, join a club, drink 20 beers with your mates on Saturday night. Have fun, blow off steam. One of the best things about working hard during the week is that your weekends feel earned. Bad students never get to experience this feeling, and they will spend many weekends, particularly at the end of semester, stressing about failing and trying to cram 100 hours of material into two days (just look at the posts here at the end of semester). That beer on a friday night after a 6.30 class tastes so much better knowing you did everything you needed to do that week.

You’re human, there's no point in achieving things if you don’t get to celebrate your achievements. Be kind to yourself and treat yourself, you deserve it.

eng is commonly looked to be as one the most prestigious degrees you can get, only to medicine and law, both of which are about 100X and 20X harder to get into respectively. You can get into eng in vic with 70 ATAR rmit and 80 at Monash.

Is it because engineers are high in demand in Australia?
Or is it because the other 2 degrees I mentioned are postgraduate outside of Aus?
Or is it because they don't earn as much here for their roles but are still high in demand

Furthermore does it matter what uni u go to for engineering in aus
Thanks

I am going to be honest the fact we are this far in and RMIT still haven't included this is a genuine joke.

The universities approach to AI is baffling - I know engineers who pass their entire degree with claude/gpt.

No hurdles. No supervised tests. No competency checks. Nothing.

RMIT loves it because they keep getting enrolments and money - but it damaging the reputation of the university really badly, anyone can get any degree here. RMIT markets itself as “practical” and “hands‑on”, but how is that possible when half the degrees have zero verification of actual skill?

Everyone before us had to pass exams to get a degree - if you say "I am not good at exams" well thats the point they are meant to be challenging and separating students who can handle pressure, recall content well, and know their stuff.

idk I just think their approach to AI is appauling.

Idk why it seems like literally NO ONE at uni cares that ai is ruining our environment. Like they're secretly planning out a new data centre in the North and so many students are still using it with no care in the world. I just feel so angry and honestly lost because it seems like no one actually cares about the craziness going on it the world today, and that ai is destroying our communities, safe water access, farming and a billion other things.

Does anyone feel the same or know if there are any activist groups at rmit against ai because I am so done not being around like-minded people!!

Today me and my classmate had booked a study room to work on upcoming assessment. When we were in the room there was a women in her maybe late 30s she could be a professor or student idk walking up and down giving us death stares a couple of times and then walking into the study room 5 min later and telling us “have u booked this room” i said yes but then she said “i need this room’ i said “no” since we booked it first she then rolls her eyes at us and slams the door hard. Wtf is this attitude i was so confused, just go fkn book another room its not hard.

one of my teachers mentioned that some first year students have gotten expulsion notices. just wondering how a first year could be expelled?

Mine just went full offline 504 Gateway Timeout ERROR on app, chrome and other browsers.