Usually the subjects I neglect I do the best in and the subjects I study for I completely screw up. My highest study score so far is from a subject in which my only study was on the day of the exam.
Exactly the same really. BM was the subject I studied least for, followed by Methods given that I had spesh anyway, and these were my two highest scores. I basically spent the entire year on spesh and English, and those two ended up being my lowest raw and even scaled scores. The only exceptions were about a month prior to the mid-years where I spent my entire time on Chemistry, nailed that, and then neglected the end year quite a bit and let my mid-year mark compensate, and then of course, the UMAT cram period after Chemistry where I neglected basically everything.
Is it a good tactic to prioritise your subjects? i.e. try hard in the 4 subjects what will be in top 4? Is this risky or its just best to even it all out?
I presume what you mean is to study hard only for those subjects you expect to be in your top 4. I would say that's not a good tactic. Those bottom 2 should be a backup. There is enough time in VCE to study enough to get to a 45-50 level for every subject you do if you have the foundation built in previous years. But if you try hard only in 4 you're basically dropping that backup option if you get what I mean. And ideally your bottom 2 would be decent contributors. In the end those small differences do help your ENTER.
I still think it's a good idea to prioritise away at least 1 subject, given that you know what you're doing, and 2 if you are absolutely definite about where your strengths and weaknesses lie. One's my recommendation though just incase you absolutely screw up an intended primary four. Firstly, you're only getting 10% of your effort, and secondly, if you know you're not going to do that well anyway, there's really no point. I also disagree with the point that "there's enough time". This depends on who you're talking to; not everyone on this forum commits the same amount of study time. As for the contribution by the bottom 2, I don't think they're decent contributors at all. 10% is hardly anything. With the study time it takes to bring a 30 to a 40 SS, you'll probably gain much more than 1 study score point in a top 4 subject given that you haven't hit a level which has very high diminishing gains (usually around the 45 level). Yes, I know that ideally you'll want to maximise every subject, but time is a limited resource in VCE which is reduced significantly by a number of factors such as extracurricular activities, social gatherings and plain ol' cbf/motivation which cut down the seemingly large pool of time that you have.
i'll probably avoid english language as much as i can.
Don't you need it since it's bound to be in your primary 4? =S Or aren't you aiming at a level where you must need strong subjects for all four.
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