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VCE Stuff => Victorian Education Discussion => Topic started by: casbanjo on June 13, 2012, 06:49:17 pm

Title: Which subject should I skip a year?
Post by: casbanjo on June 13, 2012, 06:49:17 pm: tl;dr in red

Hey guys, I'm doing a 4-year VCE (but mostly three years, you'll see below) and I am in the position where I have to skip a year for one of my subjects (i.e. Units 1+2 in 2012, Units 3+4 in 2014). This is what my subjects look like atm: :P (colour coded for your convenience)

2011 2012 2013 2014
Legal 1+2 Legal 3+4 Viscom 1+2 Viscom 3+4
Methods 1+2 Business 1+2 Business 3+4
General A 1+2 General A 3+4 Methods 3+4
Physics 1+2 Physics 3+4
Chem 1+2 Chem 3+4
English 1+2 English 3+4

English is brown because it's crap.

You can see I'm doing 1+2 Methods in 2012, skipping it in 2013, and doing 3+4 in 2014 because I'm doing General A in 2013 so my maths should still be fresh. Does this look like the best subject to skip a year or should I swap it with another subject?

Tank you for reading it all and helping!!! ;D 8) ;D 8) ;D
Title: Re: Which subject should I skip a year?
Post by: paulsterio on June 13, 2012, 06:50:41 pm: General A - 3+4 is specialist maths - you can't do that without methods, so do methods first, do specialist maths in your final year
Title: Re: Which subject should I skip a year?
Post by: casbanjo on June 13, 2012, 06:52:40 pm: okay so I'll swap it with methods then?
Title: Re: Which subject should I skip a year?
Post by: nacho on June 13, 2012, 06:55:37 pm: upvoted for colour code
Title: Re: Which subject should I skip a year?
Post by: casbanjo on June 13, 2012, 07:07:16 pm: Thankyou, sir. My respect points need a bit of a boost.
Title: Re: Which subject should I skip a year?
Post by: Special At Specialist on June 13, 2012, 07:16:39 pm: Quote from: paulsterio on June 13, 2012, 06:50:41 pm
General A - 3+4 is specialist maths - you can't do that without methods, so do methods first, do specialist maths in your final year

This.
If you want a list of all VCE subjects as well as past exams (which will give you kind of a feel for the subject) then you can check the VCAA website:
http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vce/exams/examsassessreports.html
Title: Re: Which subject should I skip a year?
Post by: ligands on June 13, 2012, 07:20:04 pm: whats the point in doing vce in 2014? you will be doing 3 3/4's.. would be better to start a uni degree
Title: Re: Which subject should I skip a year?
Post by: casbanjo on June 13, 2012, 07:25:59 pm: http://www.penandimage.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/shrug.jpeg

Don't want to go to Uni a year early

Want to do plenty of VCE subjects

Also i might do some uni studies while i'm doing that little bit of vce
Title: Re: Which subject should I skip a year?
Post by: ligands on June 13, 2012, 07:27:36 pm: Quote from: casbanjo on June 13, 2012, 07:25:59 pm
http://www.penandimage.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/shrug.jpeg

Don't want to go to Uni a year early

Want to do plenty of VCE subjects

Also i might do some uni studies while i'm doing that little bit of vce

but why? most things you learn in vce become usless ~6 weeks into most uni degrees..
Title: Re: Which subject should I skip a year?
Post by: Special At Specialist on June 13, 2012, 07:49:57 pm: Quote from: ligands on June 13, 2012, 07:27:36 pm
Quote from: casbanjo on June 13, 2012, 07:25:59 pm
http://www.penandimage.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/shrug.jpeg

Don't want to go to Uni a year early

Want to do plenty of VCE subjects

Also i might do some uni studies while i'm doing that little bit of vce

but why? most things you learn in vce become usless ~6 weeks into most uni degrees..

I'm not sure about this... my sister is doing a bachelor of science at monash and the maths that she gets is identical to the maths that I get in methods/specialist.
Title: Re: Which subject should I skip a year?
Post by: paulsterio on June 13, 2012, 10:26:56 pm: She's probably doing 1020, which is equivalent-ish to 3/4 methods, if you did 1030/1035, it won't be anything like VCE maths, at all
Title: Re: Which subject should I skip a year?
Post by: Yendall on June 15, 2012, 09:22:28 pm: That's a lot of subjects!