1. many students don't get what they have chosen.I rarely see any FYP student get their first choice. Instead, many didn't get any among their 7 bets.
2. Students are not able judge from the 200 word project synopsis whether that project may lead to meaningful results within their FYP time. Attractive synopsis doesn't mean good project. Many graduate students are tricked into bull-shit projects, not to mention FYPs.
When 3rd year students ask me on FYP projects, I always tell them to contact a GOOD professor and convince that professor to propose a project for him (self-propose).
Your para is a good point
Chosing a good project and shape it to fit oneself or shape onself to fit it is a part of FYP itself. If it is a fixed-topic, fixed-supervisor project it will be a course project, not FYP.
Anyway final year students should be able to be dominate on how his/her project goes and what's he/she will achieve rather than let the supervisor tell him. Real world after he/she graduate will be full of "projects" with few "courses" no matter he/she takes academic or industrial career path. Those who can not cope with projects well have higher chances to suffer in the real life.
Thus why I agree that FYP is at least as important as CAP.
Anyway final year students should be able to be dominate on how his/her project goes and what's he/she will achieve rather than let the supervisor tell him. Real world after he/she graduate will be full of "projects" with few "courses" no matter he/she takes academic or industrial career path. Those who can not cope with projects well have higher chances to suffer in the real life.
Thus why I agree that FYP is at least as important as CAP.
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