OnLine Registration.

For those of you taking Computer Science, you'll get acquainted with it right away when you register for your courses online on day one. For other majors, you'll probably have to wait until the end of your first semester, cos your first semester courses are usually predetermined by your departments.

Basically you use this system to register for your next semester courses before the end of the current semester. You can check stuff like the number of spaces available for the course, put yourself on the waitlist for a filled course, check the pre-requisites to see if you meet them etc. And also to drop and add courses throughout the semester too should you need to do so. (Like last sem I walked out of the Philosopy lecture after day one and immediately dropped it and switched to Statistics... not my cup of tea hehe)

Everything is updated real-time, and changes are reflected immediately when you add or drop courses, so that's the beauty of it.

However, during the registration periods at the end of the semester, you are allowed access first based on seniority, and then by lottery allocation within your own year. If you hit the jackpot you can get as early as 6am on your designated day... otherwise you can get late timings like 5+pm where all the popular courses have possibly filled up liao. They use the last 2 digits of your Student ID number, and they wil publish the lottery results few weeks before registration day.

But overall I think it's a pretty fair system... better than the bidding system at some other university ahem...

Kevin