Banning of acceleration of methods

[EvangelionZeta]

To be fair, most of the year 11s who do actually do Methods early put their heart and soul into it.  Outside of MHS, a significant number of the 45+ scores are year 11.  Indeed, a lot of elite Private Schools, the year 11s tend to be 90% of those scores...

[NE2000]

To be fair, most of the year 11s who do actually do Methods early put their heart and soul into it.  Outside of MHS, a significant number of the 45+ scores are year 11.  Indeed, a lot of elite Private Schools, the year 11s tend to be 90% of those scores...

I think that holds true for a lot of Year 11s.

It's not so much the difficulty of methods/specialist. It's more that most year 11 students (and many year 12 students) don't have the maturity to achieve excellence in an important year 12 subject, because they don't realise its importance and are not dedicated enough to put in the effort to get that extra high score.

I don't think there's too much of a 'maturity' factor here. From experience people treated their Year 11 3/4s very seriously but then maybe others have different experiences.

[Mao]

It's not so much the difficulty of methods/specialist. It's more that most year 11 students (and many year 12 students) don't have the maturity to achieve excellence in an important year 12 subject, because they don't realise its importance and are not dedicated enough to put in the effort to get that extra high score.

I don't think there's too much of a 'maturity' factor here. From experience people treated their Year 11 3/4s very seriously but then maybe others have different experiences.

From personal experience, I have to say that is true for 'good' schools, but not for those who do not have the dedication. I did a total of TWO practice exams for methods in year 11 (it is by pure luck that I achieved a good score). And many people from my school completed a psychology, biology, IT, etc, and the majority got terrible scores not because they are incompetent, but because they didn't take it seriously enough. Now imagine these people doing methods or chem in year 11, I can sense disaster and repeat.

[wombifat]

IT gives them a kick up the butt though. They don't do well in their year 12 so they put in extra effort the following year. What if that was their attitude in year 12?

[Ilovemathsmeth]

Mao, you're amazing. Two practice exams - and a 45? WOWWW

[Greggler]

We have always had a thing at our school where kids who are decent in yr 9 get to do general maths methods in yr 10.
Whereas those who arent as good just do normal yr 10 maths and are then in yr 11 are forced to do both methods and general maths.

however there are some rare cases, this yr we have one yr 11 who will be doing 3/4 coz hes hardcore