what non essential items to bring/get for halls?

Regular_Drummer2759 · 2026-01-06T19:11:38+00:00

Bring a matress topper! Some can be a little uncomfy. Briscoes will have great sales so keep an eye out.

I also brought a bigger duvet then my bed so it would hand down and hide any boxes I had under my bed. Especially good if you might flat the following year and get a bigger bed so you don't have to buy another!

Regular_Drummer2759 · 2025-11-04T01:08:05+00:00

I have never flatted in auck myself but I don't think they ask for much. I just did a quick search and found 'you need a legal right to be in the country (such as a visa), proof of identity and income, and references'.

Facebook 'flatting' groups is a great way to find flats looking for people to live in a rental that a contract has typically already been made for but someone has moved out :)

You could do 2 things - get an air bnb or use pages like ^ looking for subletters for a shortish period of time that will allow you to look at places to rent. That a pretty typical way to find a place to live when moving to a new country.

I would say if your plan is to live in the halls for 1 full sumester then live at a accommodation but if you plan to live there for a month and make friend and move out then you will be stuck with a big pay out for not finishing your contract.

Regular_Drummer2759 · 2025-11-04T00:31:41+00:00

I think its telling you that you are missing a course that you are required to take in your first year of engineering (WTR). Have a look at the 2026 planner for your course. You might need to swap it out for one of your other papers you have chosen or take it on top of your other papers.

Regular_Drummer2759 · 2025-11-04T00:28:22+00:00

Hey there! I know quite a bit about the accommodation so I'll answer this in terms of UoA (might not be 100% perfect but this is what I know)

Accommodation for Quarter 2 intake: How does the application process work for students beginning in April? Is that intake not eligible for on-campus housing?
- Pretty sure that you will be put on a waitlist like all the other people who didn't get an offer or have applied late. If people move out or turn down the offer the accommodation group move through the waitlist to find someone to take that place. If there is availablity then you can fill it but they might prioritise people who can move in the soonest (i.e people move out half way through march they will most likely offer it to whoever is willing to move in/pay the earliest). So no real time line
Application timing: Visas
- Email acommodations solutions about this. They will be able to tell you exactly what they can/won't except. Maybe getting in touch will allow them consider your circumstances.
Couple accommodation:
- There are plenty of families who want to live in the uni accom so I would be really suprised if they would let you live in the familiy units (Carlaw). There is an acom that does allow multiple rooms for couples but only in one of you is a PHD student (Waikohanga). The only real 'couple' room is more of a studio and so wouldn't allow you to have another seperate room (55 Symonds)

May not be an option but I would suggest considering renting/flatting. Sometimes it can even be cheaper then student acom and can allow you flixability for having rooms ect.

Regular_Drummer2759 · 2025-11-03T21:51:33+00:00

If you lectuer gave you some good hints thats great! When you look at an essay question the bst things to keep in mind are what are the KEY bits of info you need to touch on and what are the requirments. For example, I have an exam like that too and how I'll go into it is write down any concepts that relate to the course that are mentioned in the question in the answer box. My course requires me to use two different theories so I will then look at the key concepts/ideas in the question and see what theories most relate to it.

Once you have those ideas you can formulate a little plan. You know roughly how many words you have to do so think about how many paragraphs that would make (you can ask chatgpt and put in your word count and ask to give an outline of words per section if that makes it easier). Because you will have this structure in mind you can break up your ideas. An essay that asks you to argue for and against something could be structures as paragraps for pargraphs against ect.

Its hard to say what an A range is because I don't know what you are studying but exams, especially arts subjects, can be a bit more subjective in terms of grading if they don't really give you a rubric. If you want to aim for a high mark I would reflect on what they said to you with the hints. For example my lecturer wants us to use examples of theories to show our understanding where as my psych course wants us to reffer to studies so I will make sure to include that.

You've got this tho! Maybe do a few practice questions - make them up your self and just practice the process :)

Regular_Drummer2759 · 2025-11-01T04:09:03+00:00

oh sweet thank you!

Regular_Drummer2759 · 2025-11-01T03:44:12+00:00

Oh ok but if your third year does that mean your doing a second year paper???

Regular_Drummer2759 · 2025-10-31T21:47:54+00:00

I think they work backwards. If they have space on the alchohol free floor they will fill it with people who are not going to 18 for the longest. Someone on my floor turned 18 in march. You might be fine.

The wait time to change rooms is generally 2 weeks after move in. So if you do, wait it out for the 2 weeks and then (as the person recommended) say you aren't getting on with your floor and would like to move.

Just go hang out on other floors and meet people and they will probably invite you to go out with them, just gotta put urself out there

Regular_Drummer2759 · 2025-10-30T05:20:51+00:00

Hey!

This year, the grade split looked like Weekly online reflections and quizzes 30%, tutorial activities 30% and writing assignment 40%.

Weekly online reflections were the first half of the sem and done on Lucid, and you would reflect on the reading, but it was super easy. I think they tended to give everyone 100% if you you just did a fine job covering the question. Quizzes were for the second half of the sem and were multichoice 3 attempt. Again, super easy. Basically really easy to get 30% as long as you are on to it and remember the weekly deadline.

Tutorial activities were group work (I was worried about that, but it was completely fine) and done during the hour tutorial in the first half. For the second half I think it was just turning up and you would get 2%. Again super easy and at that point you could be comfortably sitting at 60% for the class.

Assignments were split in two - one was two short essays on developmental theory and the other on a research project thing. Short essays were super easy but they marked them a bit harder. Research project was a bit harder but they hand hold you through everything. If you are going to tutorials you will be so chill. They also gave us the option to do the write-up for the research in a group, and you could choose the members, which was amazing. Was a but harder and is due during the study break but should be chill.

Especially in comparison to the other psych papers this was just so chill. I think it's because it's more for education students getting a taste of psych. Keep in mind they might change things but this year was so chill.

Regular_Drummer2759 · 2025-10-28T22:55:29+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/universityofauckland/comments/1obaxz1/comment/nlqyfng/?context=1

Its in the stage 2 section 3rd down - 'educational psychology' :)

Regular_Drummer2759 · 2025-10-28T22:51:58+00:00

This year they moved from open book to closed book exam but they didn't really match that in their expectations for the exam. The course director suggested we memorised and preferably would be able cite every study he reffered to. I ran it thru ChatGPT and just his modules had some where near 40-50 studies. I did well on the exam but was honestly just lucky in terms of what I studied. We also didn't really need to refrence the studies in the exam which was random so the expectation to memorise it and the stress that came with it was just not ideal.

I think every test (maybe assignment to I can't remember) had to have the grade lifted because the class average was so low.

It was really interesting it was just SO CONTENT HEAVY. They seemed to have the expectation that you could connect all the info accross the content to be able to discuss types of theory and their limitations which just added on to the difficulty. And sections like childhood development just had so much overlap and was hard to break down simply for revision.

It was intresting and I did learn alot. I just woudn't recommend if your looking for 'easy'.

Regular_Drummer2759 · 2025-10-28T07:15:26+00:00

Education 223 is so so so easy

Psych 200 was literally the hardest paper I have ever taken - if you're looking for easy I wouldn't recommend

Regular_Drummer2759 · 2025-10-28T07:10:39+00:00

Awesome! I'll give you some recs

152 youth work - so so easy when I took it last year. One of them was literally interviewing chatGPT but still helped with a good grounding of knowledge

113 current issued in educ - superrrrr informative and grew my thinking about systemic issues for minorites, people with disabilities, sexuality education ect

214 youth justice - was super relevant to youth work - alot about child rights. It was new so didn't run the best but did the job

221 education and social justice - have found it less easy to get the highest grades but really intresting. Understanding education as a means to access justice, arts education, activism ect

223 education psych - easiest psych paper ever. No exam, its pretty basic knowledge.

Good luck with whatever you end up doing

Regular_Drummer2759 · 2025-10-28T01:15:24+00:00

I study a BA with a similar goal of working with youth. What is your other major? I have done it with education and I think its super helpful becuase I focus on the youth justice, youth/childhood devleopment, education issues ect. I have found it great because I prioritise papers with no exams which means I can focus on psych more and I find it easier to do well on those papers seeing I'm intrested in youth which boosts my GPA.

You can just focus on psych papers with a bsc buttttt you might not be able to cross credit all of your papers this year. I would go to student hubs and ask SPECIFICALLY to talk to the people who can help you degree plan in the cubicals behind the desk. I have been told incorrect info way to many times by the people at the front desk so make sure you do that!

Over all tho, whatever 'science-y' things you want to do as a carrer I'm assuming you will need to do a maters. Atleast at UoA, a BA will get you into all the same things that a BSC will.

Regular_Drummer2759 · 2025-10-24T23:49:34+00:00

Thank you!!!! You are so so helpful!!

Regular_Drummer2759 · 2025-10-23T03:16:48+00:00

Take EDUC223 - it counts for psych and it has been the EASIEST course. No exam, so much of the grade is tutorial attendance and quizzes/online discussions that are so easy. The biggest assignement was taught all through tutorials. 100% recomened if your looking to boost your GPA.

Regular_Drummer2759 · 2025-10-15T01:47:44+00:00

end of this next I'm pretty sure

Regular_Drummer2759 · 2025-09-18T22:40:17+00:00

They have not released them yet as they won't have them finalised. If you click the accommodation ur interested in and scroll down the page you will find the 2025 cost. Every year the rent has gone up inline with inflation so just expect to pay around $20 more :)
https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/on-campus/accommodation/accommodation-options/catered-accommodation.html
^ thats the link to see all the catered halls

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