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1) I made the following observations while going through some students' course registration portal and also after gathering some facts from confirmed sources: 1. The following courses have been made general and compulsory for all departments in the school of science and technology: PHY191, PHY192, PHY101, PHY102, CHM191, CHM192, CHM101, CHM102, CHM103 BIO191, BIO192, BIO101, BIO102 and are expected to be done by all students admitted from 2014 till date. 2. All practical courses (e.g. PHY191, CHM191, BIO191 and their respective 192's) have been changed to become 1 unit course each. 3. Other newly added courses for 100lev 2nd semester students are MTH101, MTH102 and MTH103. MTH101 and MTH103 are both 1st semester 100lev courses and are 3 units each. MTH102 is second semester 100level course and 2 units. You would observe that the TMAs for, MTH112, MTH122 and MTH142 have not been uploaded till date, that is a sign that those courses are no longer 'valid' and the school no longer makes provisions for them. 'SENIOR' students who failed any of those courses earlier should just register the NEW 'MTH' courses in their stead as the old ones are no longer examinable. Meanwhile, senior students who have registered and passed the exams of the old ones NEED NOT re-register them, they should just ignore them even as they appear in the portal. 4. PHY111 (Elementary Mechanics) and PHY113 (Heat and Properties of matter) have since late 2015 been combined to form PHY101 (Elementary Mechanics, Heat and Properties of Matter) while PHY132 (Electricity, Magnetism and Modern Physics) have now been changed to PHY102 and PHY124 (Geometric and Wave Optics) have been changed to PHY103. So all the 6 major branches of physics have been summarized into PHY101, PHY102 and PHY103. ***If u don't see any of the new courses in your portal, it either means your portal is not yet updated with the new changes or some of those new courses are not applicable to your department.*** Those who have done and pass any of them before (with their initial codes) need not do them again, while those that have not sat for them before are expected to drop the old courses and register the new ones. PHY101 and 103 are 2- units each while PHY102 is 3- units (This unit value may be different in some other departments). Students must register with the new course codes if they must sit for the exams of any of these courses. They may either drop the old ones and then register the new ones, or change the course codes from the old ones to the new ones (where applicable) or simply forego the old ones and just pay for and register the new ones. 5. Courses can only be dropped at the study centre. To apply for any course to be dropped, you have to go with the printout of your course registration slip and sign beside the courses you wish to drop. (Different study centres may have different procedures). Although the school have stopped dropping courses recently; they may have no other choice this time around than to start doing that again because of the recent developments. 6. To change course codes, just log in to your portal and check out "change wrong course code" among the red buttons at the left hand side of your portal. Fill in the right code and the wrong code into appropriate boxes and click on "change" and the site will return you to your home page. By the time you check your course registration again, the old code would have changed to the new one. Students should however take note that they can not change a course code for which the exam is already written and passed. Also, they MAY not be able to change the course code of a 2 unit course to a 3 unit course (though I have not confirmed this particularly). In a case where it is not possible to change such codes, the best option is to drop the old course and register the new one or just pay for the new one and register it while the old one is foregone. 7. There is another new development in the NOUN students portal... it is the new button added and tagged as "Load Remita Payment". This button was added for the sake of students who made payments into their portal and the money didn't reflect automatically or instantly as expected. If you paid into your portal through Remita and the transaction was successful, click on the "Load Remita Payment" button and you will see a list of your transactions (both approved and pending ones). If you find a pending transaction, just click on the "retry" button and it will load for a while.. once the transaction is confirmed and valid, it will tell you "transaction approved" and then the money gets loaded. #Sunity