Wow that's some great insight. Thank you very much. I do plan on pursuing masters in future but only after a few years of experience from work.
Hence career wise, do employers in the finance industry "stay away" from employing more theoretical majors?
You're welcome
! Well you could always get an honours in Applied Math, and do MBA at a reputable university later. Reputable because of the networks, not just the university content (as I said Biz skills are much easier to pick up than Math). If you can't find a reputable MBA, don't worry. CFA would just suffice cause it's challenging enough (and cheap!).
Employers in the finance industry very much like people with in-depth Math knowledge per se. They really want people to help solve complex problems for them, and understand why some stuffs are happening.
Which brings me to this point, the inherent problem in the NUS Science system lies in the fact that we don't make ourselves employable. We know too much about Math (well, relative to the outside world that is) that we couldn't market ourselves properly. The administration (finally) realises this, and now they're piloting programs like career planning to be made compulsory to all incoming students, so people like you could benefit.
(this part here is meant for all to read, how I feel about the current QF syllabus rant, read on) 
Of course, I can't get away with some of the graduation rules in Science faculty. To me, one of them is the (antique) faculty requirements. Yes, it is meant to be a good idea, exposes you to the different branches of Science.
But in QF this is disadvantageous because in all other Science majors except QF, the faculty requirements are inbuilt into their major requirements. For example, in Chemistry, you have LSM1401 Fundamentals of Biochemistry and MA1421. In Applied Maths, you have CS1010/IT1006, in Physics MA1505, blah blah blah.
The quirky part of the QF major is that, if you manage to read the NUS bulletin carefully, we have 2 subject groups (ie. Computing Science and Math and Stats) precluded from us (so we can't take CS as our faculty requirements, sad).
So we need to source for our own 3 separate faculty requirement modules. If you're lucky enough you could grab freshmen seminar and CS/CU it. But for me, I need to choose a 3 of CM/PC/LSM/PR and take it on a graded basis (which is crap, really, and that also explains why I didn't use my S/U till now, in Year 3).
The bit trade-off is that our breadths are automatically filled (because we take modules from practically anywhere), unlike the rest of the majors in Science. But then again, breadths are meant to be S/U'ed
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