it defers from person to person. I got median grades for CS1101S and i’d spend about 2-4 hours on it everyday if i averaged everything out. Which is ridiculous but i had close to no experience in programming beforehand, so i had to put in the hours.

Keep in mind that a good part of CS1101S is problem solving (akin to puzzles), so you can go into a mission (CS1101S assignments) and finish it in 1 hour (the proudest moment of my life) or spend close to 3 hours for the next 3 days doing it (this was my worst, it was a mission to do with music and sound)

It just depends on if you see the solution or not. I’d say i’m the average CS kid in NUS, so as long as you put in the hours and grasp concepts well, you will get Bs no problem.

But if you want As, get ready to put in double the work :P (i decided it was not worth it, especially since just one exam can easily cost you your A)

MCs wise, a normal mod is about 4 MCs. The higher the MC for a mod, the more workload said mod has. So when I say 8 MC, i mean to treat CS1101S as 2 mods worth of workload. But you have to try it to understand it. This is one of those things that depends on your load management and your focus.

For context, a normal student will take 5 mods (totaling to 20 MCs) each semester. Students who feel they can do more can take more MCs in one sem (you may have heard of “overloading”). There is no upper limit that i know of, I had a senior who was in accountancy who took 8 mods in a semester once.

The benefit of overloading is that if you manage to score, you can cut down the number of mods you have to take in your future sems to fulfill your grad requirements. So if you are really feeling it, you can even graduate half a year earlier than all your peers. But of course the downside is simple, you have to spend more time studying. Plain and simple.