Hello guys,
So following on from my last post regarding whether I should accelerate biology or legal in year 10, we had our subject information session last night for subject selection. Out of all the subjects I want to complete in VCE (literature, methods, specialists, biology (decided over legal as it opens more doors), chemistry and physics), none of them will be offered to complete as unit 1 and 2 for year 10 next year.
However, I was given two options:
The first was that, even though it isn't publicly offered, unit 1/2 chem is running at the same time as the subjects which we are allowed to accelerate, so the head of senior school said, given my circumstance with what I want to complete, he will allow me to complete year 11 chem next year.
The second was that the school has decided to combine science and maths from years 7-10 into a single STEM subject, which I will have to complete next year. The head of senior school told me that majority of the classes in the subject will be maths orientated. So, instead of completing year 10 maths, he will allow me to be enrolled into unit 1/2 methods and complete it during year 10 maths with the year 10 teacher teaching it to me (but I figured he would be more of a guidance rather than an actual teacher because he will be preoccupied with year 10 maths). My fear with this is how much year 10 maths that I will miss which is needed for methods, but I still have the rest of the year for extension work and over the holidays.
The head of senior school said he will allow me to do one or the other, not both. I am unsure which one to complete. I feel as though I will perform better in chemistry, as I will be in an actual year 11 chem class, but I feel methods will provide me more with the foundations for subjects like specialist in the future. Overall I think that I should do methods (I am a pretty self-motivated learner anyway).
So please let me know what you think.
Thank you for your responses.