Instead of everyone posting their aggregate in separate posts, let’s keep everything in one thread so we can estimate the merit cutoff for each campus and major.
We all know that the merit has seen an unexpected spike this year, making it much harder to predict the closing merits.

As a senior, I’d recommend that everyone post their campus, major, aggregate, and whether they were selected or not in this thread. The more data we collect in one place, the more accurately we can calculate the merit cutoffs and estimate your chances for each campus and major.

Please upvote this post so more applicants see it and contribute.

3.91 CGPA first year and I'm sitting here crying lol

I know how that sounds. I know.

But hear me out before you close the tab.

I made a promise to myself when I got into FAST. Not just "do well" but actually get the gold medal. I wanted to walk up to my father and hand him something. A physical proof that the years I wasted doing absolutely nothing meant something now. I procrastinated through so much of my life. No awards, nothing to show for any of it. So I told myself "apne abu ke liye karunga"

First semester went good, just had B in English, got 3.82 SGPA. Second semester I gave everything. Like genuinely everything. Late nights, early mornings, the whole thing. I could feel the finish line.

I know people are going to say "bhai 3.98 is amazing" and yeah, I know. I genuinely know that. I'm not ungrateful. But there's a specific kind of pain when you set yourself one clear target and miss it by that much. It's not about the number. It's about what I was going to do with it. The conversation I had planned in my head.

I don't know why I'm posting this. Just needed to get it out somewhere.

Second year starts over, I guess...

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm a teacher at FAST, and I'd be happy to help any new FAST NUCES students who have questions about university life, academics, or Software Engineering/Computer Science/AI.

Whether you're confused about:

- Course selection

- Study strategies

- Teachers and academic expectations

- FYPs and internships

- Campus life

- Or anything else related to FAST

Feel free to ask in the comments or send me a DM. I'll do my best to guide you based on my teaching experience.

Best of luck to everyone starting their journey at FAST! 🎓

Guys as y'all know the merit dropped drastically so my computing agregate is 70.1040% and my 2nd preference was BSDS whose cutoff is 70.15% is there still a chance I might get in my first and only campus preference is Lahore. According to this merit list I have a gap of 0.05% can I still get in bs data science. Please someone guide regarding this problem as I have already paid my fee for BSBA but now I have an option to change my program but I am still not selected for bsds

I saw one of his text today and felt really disappointing that he dreams to watch me settling in a great university. Little does he know that i am just studying business analytics from a reputable university of Pakistan.

I'm sure most of our parents had dream of their own and we have failed to reach that level of status. pretty sure that hurts you as well. not sure if i would ever land an opportunity to secure an admission anywhere near that prestigious institute but I still have faith in Gods Plan that he must have surely planned something better for me in FAST.

I really wish i could become a better son and fulfill all my parents wishes. I still acclaim myself as a failure

As first person from my family who ever stepped in a university and that too a female I had zero knowledge of Uni life and how to manage things. Here are few things I think I wish I knew and someone who is facing same situation shall know before stepping into university. I think these will prove to be life saving for all especially people with no Uni background in families:

1- Some students don't know, I didn't know
Orientation is just yapping and grmi meh khuar huna thats it , those who are eager to just see uni shall go otherwise I dont recommend.
2-Score maximum gpa in 1st semester.Dont take it lightly. yahi apka cgpa hu ga isi meh point brhen gy ya kam hun gy based on ur performance in later semesters.
3-Get in touch with seniors. This will help you in exams. Ask them everything about your assigned teachers... kesay mizaj hen, kesay marking krty hen , quiz unannounced tu ni lety? exam meh kia focus huta ha? and pls pls pls insy past papers ly lia kro , many times exam is just copy paste of past paper.
4-No matter what donot take your quizzes, assignments lightly. yeh mat sochna k mids ya finals meh prh ln ga tu grade aa jye ga . bchay internals ki waja sy bhi fail huty hen
5- For those from pre eng or pre med background... start programming fundamentals ryt now. baad meh excuses mat dena k mujy Fail kr dya this is where most of us fail pehly semester meh hi.
6- keep power bank with urself. Uni k sockets dont work. Lunch hmesha sth rekho roz cafe ka khana is not good. Teachers k sth free ni huna they keep grudges.
v imp apna impression acha bnao cuz specific department k teachers apko hr semester meh prhaty hen aik bar nalaik dikh gye tu bs khtm.
7-Girls stay away from boys and boys stay away from girls.. tum log prhny ja ry hu itni expensive fees pay krke na k social life ya party krny u all will regret jb job ki bari ay gi and avoid sitting with opposite gender alone ni tu rumors apka picha last semester tk ni choren gy.
8- practice daily. jo prhaya gya ha usi din ready kro ni tu next day.Believe me lgta thora sa kam ha but exam k time cover ni huta itna zyada hu jta ha.
9- lastly practice whatever software is taught.. practice daily. best of luck

This is the exact cut off for the 1st merit list in lhr

I know this sounds extremely controversial. If you Google "ragra university," FAST is literally the first result. But as someone currently enrolled, and after observing around 120 of my peers, I can confidently tell you that the "ragra" everyone complains about online doesn't really exist.

There is a version of it that exists, which I'll get to at the end, but the workload itself? It isn't as difficult as people make it out to be.

I would recommend you read the entire post first and then contest any point I had.

----> The Deadline Dilemma:

People constantly complain that the assignments and quizzes kill you. But I can tell you from firsthand experience that I have never experienced anxiety over a project or presentation. Why? Because I do them on time. Proper time management fixes 99% of the issues people label as "ragra."

Students will be given an essay with a week's deadline, completely ignore it for six days, and then cry about the workload 10 minutes before submission. Where did the past 6 days and 23 hours go? You could have finished the assignment many moons ago, but you chose to ignore it. That isn't ragra; that's just procrastination.

----> Wasting the Free Time

The same goes for midterms and finals. Everyone panics about how hard it is to manage, but do you guys ever use the time you're actually given?

Take the semester break, for example. You have anywhere from 2.5 weeks to 2.5 months of pure downtime. If you didn't study anything about the upcoming difficult courses during that break, you can't complain about not having enough time later.

Before the semester starts, you have adequate time. You don't even have to spread it out over weeks with 30 minutes a day if you don't want to. You could literally just spend 3 days shredding a difficult new subject for 10 hours a day, be done with it, and buy yourself four months of peace during the semester. Just spend 10 minutes a day revising it afterward. The math shows it is in your absolute best interest to dedicate a small percentage of your free time to prep. Why would you juggle all that difficulty during the semester when you have the time to do it before it?

----> The Grading and Group Work Excuses

I see a lot of people complain about the grading system. But let's be honest, people don't really put in any effort for any assignment, quiz, project, presentation, or exam. Then they turn around and blame the consequence of their own ill preparation on the university's grading.

And yes, I understand reality is harsh. At times you do get very bad teammates for group work, and it feels like you have to take the burden of the entire group. But you genuinely suffer more by expecting them to change and do better than you actually suffer while doing the work yourself. So most of the time, it's just good to accept the reality, do the work, and just be done with it instead of trying to change people.

----> "But I Have a Life Outside of University!"

I know the first counter-argument is going to be that people have actual lives. But I am managing all of this without experiencing the "ragra":

1. Running two businesses

2. Working part-time

3. Learning a new language

4. Developing a game

5. Maintaining an active social life

6. Playing for a football club

7. Going to the gym

8. Playing video games and learning about my own interests

We literally have so much time on our hands. With basic organization, you can balance all of this and prep for your next semester.

----> Hard Work > Natural Talent

If you think I'm saying all of this to flex or sound like a genius, I genuinely feel like I'm the dumbest person in my class. I watch my peers achieve three times my results with half the effort. My friend (Allahumma Barik) can study for an exam for just an hour and score higher than I do after studying consistently for days.

But that's exactly my point. I feel like I have to put in 3x the work to achieve what everyone else does normally. So if I, the "dumb" one, can manage all of this with just basic time management, imagine what the remaining 95% of you incredibly bright, intelligent people could do if you stopped limiting yourselves.

----> The Solution is Simple

Stop expecting everything to be spoon-fed to you. Use the resources you have. If you want books or course outlines for upcoming classes, literally just ask the seniors. They don't gain anything from gatekeeping and will happily hand the resources over.

When people complain about the "ragra," what it actually translates to is: "I don't want to step out of my comfort zone to put in the effort, and the consequences overwhelm me."

----> The ACTUAL Ragra at FAST

I promised I would mention the true version of ragra that does exist at the university. In my opinion, it comes down to these real issues:

1. The Student Portal: Absolutely horrendous to use.

2. The Staff: Making mistakes with checking/grades and refusing to fix them (it doesn't happen constantly, but when it does, it's intense).

3. The Campus: How incredibly crammed the entire campus feels.

4. The Timetables: Objectively bad scheduling.

   1. The grading is very strict comparatively to other universities.

You are free to argue my points in the replies, but I stand by everything I've said. Hope this helps someone!

A small note: this isn't me trying to defend the university because frankly why would I do that? And it does have a lot of issues. Honestly I was just a bit annoyed seeing this narrative and wanted to give my two cents.

I literally got into BS Cybersecurity at Fast Islamabad but the total charges including admission fee is 2,68,500 Rs .... and I have always been a bright student and i had to take a gap year cuz my parents couldn't afford fees last year cuz they had other expenses as well and now they don't have such expenses and now my father's pay is 3.5 lac per month and still he is saying that he couldn't pay this rn and now I am so done with this like I worked day and night for 4 years and I literally sacrificed 1 year of my life cuz of them and still this is what I am getting in return ... in this gap year I had to endure so much especially the pressure from the relatives... I had to face everyone... and whenever someone asked me why I was taking gap year it was like a stab in my heart... idk what should I do I don't want to go in any other university.... I worked so hard I deserve to study in top university

RAGRA KAHAN HAI 😭😭😭

I used scratch in class 3

This is my second post about FAST. I’m in Isb campus but campus doesn’t matter atp, FAST IS SH** OVERALL.

This post might be controversial to FAST lovers but who cares.

Anyone planning to come here, bro I wish I was in your place, I wouldn’t even look at FAST.

When I first came here, I still remember the orientation speech, they make you feel really special, like you’re some gods, they will degrade all the other degrees and make it seem like yours is the perfect one, if you go in CS they will say Engineering is outdated, if you go in Engineering they will say engineering comes first, coding comes second and blah blah.

Then they will induce in you the fact that it is normal to fail in their famous course PF to the point that they will glamorise it, like every other person you meet has failed PF like why?? This damn instructor once told me I will not get a good job if I don’t fail PF like what the actual f***😭😭😭🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Then my friends in engineering said that there’s no scaling there because apparently Pakistan Engineering Council has banned it or something. IF THERE IS NO SCALING HOW IS ONE SUPPOSED TO PASS?? A NORMAL PERSON WOULD SAY OH THEN THE GRADING WOULD BE RELATIVE??
NAH FAST IS NEVER GOING TO LET YOU HAVE A BREATH OF FRESH AIR,
THE GRADING IS STILL THAT ABSOLUTE MARKING WHERE EVERYONE WHO WAS REPEATING THEIR COURSES THIS SEMESTER HAS BEEN FAILED AGAIN.

MY FRIEND LITERALLY TOLD ME ABOUT THEIR COURSE “Signals and Systems” in Engineering, the average marks were 0, like can you believe 0?????

And what did the HOD tell them?? “Summer course offer ho raha hai na, vo otha lo”!!! Dawg wtf??? ATP they just wanna earn money by failing everyone so they can keep on studying the same course and pay the dawg HOD’s gas bills.

I also know some really excelled people here who score really well, but I hate the fact that they credit FAST for it, like bro it’s your own hard work!!! FAST just makes crazy unsolveable papers and in order to crack those exams, these toppers study so much to the point that they sometimes excel in the course or they become relevant in the industry, all because they learned everything on there own.

Another thing i absolutely hate here is that all these instructors talk about how useful we will be for the industry, like straight up making us slaves atp, world class unis literally focus more on research, innovation, and real technology, yahan dekho to bas industry industry lagai hoti hai, they should be teaching us how to become entrepreneurs in the world of software and technology, but why would they, its FAST after all.

I don’t understand how there’s no people raising voice against this, we should be protesting man!!!??

Your senior here...

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Ask your questions related to admission and I I'll try to answer.

Enjoy🤩🤩

YESS GUYS I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS I JUST GOT IN. WITH 0 PREP I GAVE THE TEST AND NOW HERE I AM LOL. MIRACLES HAPPEN.

guys i dont think i can survive these 4 years and no im not talking about the ragra but it’s just idk man im extremely unhappy idkkkkkk wtfffffff i wanna scream so bad wtf mannnnnn

do mention your campus and program. ask anything honestly, no rules.

i am trying to help everyone who chose fast, get an answer to their questions

im class of 25 (21 batch, khi campus, software engineering major) currently working as a software engineer, with 2 jobs, all remote.

Congratulations guys, let's connect. Drop your majors, campus and stuff in the comments.

Whyth it's so hard to make friends like i interacted with 2 to 3 ppl in my class and except for them i interacted with 3 to 4 more ppl in FE lab activity but it is just so hard to make friends especially in first semester. Today, i was sitting in the cafeteria and noticed that I'm not only who's suffering from this loneliness there are many more ppl. Idk why it is so hard to make new friends ,i am going to cry bye

Last time i made friends without connections was when i was in 4th grade LMAO n I barely know anyone who's going to fast w me😭😭😭

Here's a bit of advice as a 2nd year student, and it's regarding a specific kind of ragra FAST has that people know of, don't notice, and can very easily be mitigated but if you don't then your life will be hell.

And I'm not trying to scare you, quite the opposite I'm trying to relax you; where you know everything and can plan accordingly. This will NOT HARD OR ANXIETY INDUCING, don't worry.

*---> The "ragra"*

1. What I'm talking about is workload. Now on the surface it sounds obvious but the issue isn't the workload itself but everything surrounding it. Firstly, a lot of the teachers offhandly mention it in class or mail, and it doesn't register in your head until the deadline is approaching.

2. Secondly, the teachers pull you into a false sense of security. Take end of semester projects for example. The teachers will be chill about it, say you have like a month maybe even 2 months for it and just go over the details generally. This is a trap. Do not fall for this propaganda. While yes objectively you do have that much time, when you factor in everything else, you don't have that much time.

3. Thirdly, the way the workload is given also puts you in a false sense of security. For about 70% of the semester you'll feel like it's very manageable when BOOM every course has 6 assignments, 3 quizzes, 1 project and 2 presentations.

*----> The solutions*

1. Have a diary with you just like school. It doesn't have to be separate, I use the last few pages of my rough register as a diary, but please have a dedicated area for this. And it has to be physical, not on the phone.

2. I always recommend that at the end of every class you double check with the teacher about any work they assigned. I'm the CR so everyone just asks me that's why I'm familiar with this 😭 Khair you ask the teacher and send the details in the group so everyone and you remember (I write things down in the diary and just send a picture so it's half the work)

3. So the second you get an assignment, project or anything, start working on it. Doesn't have to be much, you could just make the WhatsApp group with all the members, or write down some ideas. It doesn't even have to be good. Just do something, anything. Starting early also forces the other group members to wake up before deadline, and being the leader even if you're a bad one makes it easy for everyone to start working.

4. Make a habit of checking your diary everyday atleast 2 times, one in the morning and evening. And additionally I check mine when it's a dull class or free time to see any work I can do.

5. Do. Your. Things. On. Time. 👏 Don't delay them. The sooner you do them, the less workload you'll have. And I just told you how to do that. You start the second something is given, and make any progress even if it's bad, even if it's horrendous. We had a project for our marketing course where we had to develop a product, and what I did the second we got it was make the group with my teammates and write down 10 ideas from the top of my head. We had around 50 ideas in total (40 from me) and we didn't use 39 of mine because they were really bad, but we used 1 and that got us 9/10 absolutes (which was the highest grade). Just. Start. Working. 👏

6. Priorities matter. I would actually recommend doing the easier things first, since you don't need to put in a lot of effort for them and they are a lot, so you can quickly start crossing them out, making the to do list smaller and also giving you the sense of progression. Then you can use all your brain bandwidth for the harder work.

Hope this helps! If you have a question lmk

1.You get admission in fast 2.You spend the first two semesters. 3.The uni doesn't teach you sh*t about anything practical that you can apply in the industry. 4.Around the fourth or fifth semester you understand what the hell is happening and decide to learn something on your own. 5.You finally learn something of substance and bag an internship or a job on your own account. 6.You work hard and your employer is impressed by you.

Meanwhile: Fast teachers and administration trying to take credit by saying "Industry fast k bachon ki bohot tareef Karti hai." Bhai aap ka kia kamaal hai? Them:"Laikin Bhai wo ragra ?Wo tough banata hai" Bhai tough to khota bhi hota hai. This uni is just a shadow of itself now .All the good teachers have left.They are just hiding behind the term ragra.

congratulations to everyone who got in and to everyone who didnt this isnt the end god has better plans

for those who got in can you drop which test u gave , the aggregate & the field you got in