Rank Your High School Subjects From Favourite to Least Favourite!

[waterangel82]

1.) Biology
2.) Chemistry
3.) Accounting
4.) Further
(Gap)
5.) English
(Large gap)
6.) Methods

[Grace0702]

1. Business studies
2. Information Processes and Technology
3. Maths
4. Physics
5. English
6. Studies of Religion

[Jigsaw]

In terms of 3/4 subjects, I'd rank them:

1. Legal Studies
Favourite subject by far. Found the content really engaging and just enjoyed the subject overall.

2. Japanese
Was so different from all my other subjects and was fortunate enough to have a teacher who really made lessons engaging and pushed us to do well. As someone from a caucasian background, learning about Japanese culture and the language itself was really stimulating.

3. Business Management
Did this as a 3/4 in year 11. While the content was dry at times, overall I found it quite interesting (although not at the same level as Japanese and Legal!)

4. English
Enjoyed it overall! The only reason why it's further down the list is simply because I found the above subjects more enjoyable.


5. Accounting
Found this subject a little stressful. Think it was a product of both having a teacher that gave us extremely difficult coursework and a multitude of SACs (think we had about 8-9 all up), but probably more-so to do with it also being quite number-heavy. Not a maths person (as you can see below!)


6. Maths Methods
Not a numbers person! Did it simply to meet a course pre-req. which I didn't even end up pursuing :/

[ashmi]

1. Further Maths
2. Product Design and Technology
3. English
4. Physics (Was tempted to put this at 3rd Place )
5. Methods (If Methods was only using the CAS then it would be probably 3rd place)
*gap*
6. Chemistry

[alphabeta]

Units 1&2:

specialist
methods
chem/physics
biology
*big gap*
literature

[K.Smithy]

1. Methods/Psychology
What can I say? I'm a nerd and I love them both
2. Physics
I can't wait for unit 4! (Really... all I wanna talk about is string theory and unit 4 offers me the perfect chance to just casually slip it into conversation )
3. Biology
Also can't wait for unit 4 

I honestly love my STEM subjects though, it is definitely hard to rank them. I love each and every one of these fields, but sometimes school can really suck the fun out of a topic - or it doesn't go as in depth as I would love to. If I had to rank these STEM fields based upon how much I loved them in general - ignoring how they are taught at school and what is in the syllabus - they would all be fighting for the #1 spot.

4. Study of Religion
Ethics is this subject's saviour.. If we didn't study ethics, SOR would be competing with English for my absolute least favourite subject
I just find it sooooo repetitive. I've learnt about the major world religions for like 4 years in a row... its killing me

5. General English
English doesn't even deserve to be on the list... I have always hated this subject. 1. it's boring, 2. it's repetitive, 3. it's pointless... I don't understand why they can't just give us an English grade based off of the assignments we do for other subjects... why do we need a whole subject? I know this is gonna sound controversial but here I go... SHAKESPEARE WILL NEVER HELP ME IN LIFE...

I must say though, shout out to literally lauren for making English seem so so interesting and actually enjoyable! I left the QUT English lecture in September wishing Lauren was my English teacher - if she was I wouldn't have a single complaint about English... (Lauren if you see this, please be my English teacher. Thank you 😉 )

[DrDusk]

2. Physics
I can't wait for unit 4! (Really... all I wanna talk about is string theory and unit 4 offers me the perfect chance to just casually slip it into conversation )

Really String theory? That's interesting. I don't expect them to give you much more than a small description of what it is.
However if you do have an interest in it I encourage you to watch Michio Kaku's video on youtube about it. He co-developed this theory.

Only a handful of people in the world understand it but I agree it is VERY interesting...

[Evolio]

1. Literature 1 & 2 
2. Psychology 1 & 2
3. Methods 3 & 4
4. Biology 3 & 4
5. Chemistry 1 & 2
6. Specialist Mathematics 1 & 2 
This is according to 2019. Who knows, it might change next year...

[K.Smithy]

Really String theory? That's interesting. I don't expect them to give you much more than a small description of what it is.
However if you do have an interest in it I encourage you to watch Michio Kaku's video on youtube about it. He co-developed this theory.

Haha already ahead of you My teacher got me to write an essay on any topic I wanted in grade 9, and I chose string theory. I watched Michio Kaku's video about a million times because I was just so intrigued.

Only a handful of people in the world understand it but I agree it is VERY interesting...

I guess my question for you is: do you believe M-theory is the true unified field theory?

[DrDusk]

Haha already ahead of you My teacher got me to write an essay on any topic I wanted in grade 9, and I chose string theory. I watched Michio Kaku's video about a million times because I was just so intrigued.

That's great! I started out that way as well. Back in primary school I would watch a LOOT of videos on the universe and what not and soon that transitioned into contest Physics and now a degree in Physics!

I guess my question for you is: do you believe M-theory is the true unified field theory?

Ouch now that is the most interesting question. The big thing is IF M-theory is proven true we will finally have a way to bring together General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics.

What usually happens and has happened throughout the history of Physics is we come up with laws and theories, and then more research is done and we find out those Laws are a VERY small subset of a bunch of greater Laws. For example Newtonian Mechanics for hundreds of years was considered to be correct but that Einstein published Relativity and we find that Newtons Laws are actually a subset of the equations Einstein came up with in relativity. By making a few assumptions you can bring them out. So I guess what I would say is all the theories we have now MAY be correct including M-theory but it's HIGHLY likely that they are a simplification of an even more grand theory or Law that we are yet to discover.

The biggest problem for Physicists is figuring out gravity. There are so many theories but all fail when it comes to explaining Gravity.

[annabeljxde]

1. Chemistry (was at the bottom of the list in Year 11 whoa what)
2. Studies of Religion 1
3. Biology
4. Mathematics
5. Mathematics Extension 1
6. English Advanced

[ArtyDreams]

My subjects for Year 11 - am curious to see how much this will change next Year!

Art 1/2
Chemistry 1/2
Physics 1/2
Methods 3/4
English 1/2
Spec 1/2

[Coolmate]

2. Psychology 1 & 2

I wish the HSC subjects would include subjects like Psychology and other intriguing VCE subjects like "Health and Human".

[Coolmate]

However if you do have an interest in it I encourage you to watch Michio Kaku's video on youtube about it. He co-developed this theory.

Hey DrDusk, I just watched this video, and I have to say I am interested in String Theory now and it is a fascinating concept.

[DrDusk]

Hey DrDusk, I just watched this video, and I have to say I am interested in String Theory now and it is a fascinating concept.

That's what they're great at =)
These scientists are great at getting people interested in the matter and it's amazing the passion they have.

The most notable one would be Richard Feynann. Watch his youtube video on him explaining fire. You will be amazed. He was probably the best ever at explaining concepts.