Hesitant about starting 3/4 Chemistry

[aquasoul]

Hello Atar Notes!

I'm beginning my final year of high school and becoming quite worried that Chemistry might really weigh down my Atar. I'm aiming to get into Bachelor of Arts at Melbourne and since Chem isn't a prerequisite I am rethinking my decision. I did study 1/2 last year and gained scores in the 70-80% range with very little/moderate study (my school is quite academic and I'm actually not given that great of a gage of my abilities compared to the rest of the state). I have two alternative options for subjects (being economics and futher maths) and I'm not really sure if I should move out.

I'd love some advice from people who have done chem in the past.

[AliTan]

I was also questioning whether I should keep chemistry at the end of year 11 but decided to keep it because it's a prereq for many courses and I wasn't quite sure what I wanted to do. My chemistry results were slightly above average within my cohort (although I did go to highly academic school as well) and at the start of year 12 I was thinking that Chemistry would be one of my bottom 2 subjects.

However, I found the 3/4 topics a lot more interesting than Units 1/2 and because of this put a lot more effort into Chemistry than I did in year 11. By midway through the year, chemistry seemed like it would now be one of my top 4 and I was enjoying it a lot more than in Unit 1/2. In the end, it ended up being the subject with the highest raw study score for me (45) so in hindsight I feel like I definitely made the right decision in keeping Chemistry. 

If you're not sure what you want to do in Uni, I'd recommend keeping Chemistry to keep your options open but if you're dead set on Arts then I guess you could reconsider. That being said, you might enjoy Units 3/4 Chemistry a lot more like I did and the fact that you've already done Units 1/2 does help - starting a whole new subject without doing Units 1/2 might be a bit more challenging.

Hope this helped and good luck for year 12!