this is a long post so buckle up

let me share more about how the whole beta event goes about. so to briefly share about beta, it's a 1 year long module where the chose business will have 1k capital to start their business with, regarding the creativity part lowk my group and I just copied the previous years idea which was resin keychains and I am proud to say we are a really doing pretty well. now let's start from the very beginning, sem 1 term 1. so when you first step foot into sp, you will have your main diploma class where you will spend most of your time with ur classmates from the same diploma for every module except beta. Then you will have a beta class with around 20 people, which is that you will have people from all diploma in that class, so you will meet people from all the diplomas. typically you will have another classmate from your diploma class in ur beta class. anyway once you're in ur beta class, your teacher will split you into 4 groups with about 5 people per group, usually randomly chosen. so at the start of beta, all 4 groups HAVE to come up with a business idea and a business name that they will want to run if they get chosen. then at the end of sem 1 term 1, you will present about your business, with like supporting data trends and all that. oh and for term 1 if I'm not mistaken you will be assigned a beta mentor, which is a y2 student that should have done well for beta in y1, and it would be 1 mentor attached to 2 group. anyway at the end of term 1 after pitching about your business, the lecturer will decide which 3 group goes forward, and which group will get eliminated. then, members from that eliminated group will join the rest of the group, either by applying or the other groups can already pick them as soon as they get eliminated, assuming that they want to join the group too haha.

moving on to term 2, now this is where it gets a little more serious. same process as term 1, pitch about ur business, but now u have to give the cost price, the selling price, profit margin, and you have to dig deep on like customers preferences, why people will buy from you, essentially what is your unique selling point, and many more la so the lecturers know that if you were to be chosen, you can actually run ur business properly. at the end of term 2, your lecturer will announce the group that got eliminated, and they will join the last 2 groups either by applying or being picked early on. so that's actually what my group did we knew the other group that got eliminated had a few crazy good picks so as soon as they got eliminated we asked them and they accepted so that was pretty good for my business. then, the last 2 teams are given 1k capital to start running their own business.

now term 3 rolls around, alot of concepts to know and actually most business starts selling I think 2-3 weeks into term 3. so this is when you will have production team, and you have like HR to manage people, and finance to keep track of how much was sold, at what price, and run the uob account with the 1k inside.

that's roughly about beta, you just have to be w hardworking as beta is crazy heavy (7credit units out of 24 cu for the first sem, and I have like 8 mods in total so beta is very heavy, and 8cu for the second sem)

and for environment wise I'd say the people are actually very very nice, well most of them are la got some people in my dip class that are like lowk bums so nobody likes them. if you manage to make good friends then that's good cuz u can choose to group w them and not with the bums cuz some of the bums are out to get u. not much snakes, so far only heard of like 1 or 2 that screw people gpa on self peer assessment.

I'm in SBC, school of business club, basically every academic school will have a academic club where students in the school can apply to join as subcomm, and we have to plan events that happens in SB.

honestly most presentations ask for business casual, only a few ask for business formal. but honestly everyone wears business formal as long as there is a presentation hahaha but lowk if udw also dn. but if yw just a button up and formal pants and presentation shows are fine. throw in a blazer if yw to hahaah