a word on christian and catholic schools.....

[midas_touch]

At my school, we had the option of either doing religion and society unit 2/ethics, or religion and society units 3+4 in year 11. You had to choose either option though. I just chose 3+4 to give myself a chance of making it count, given that I only did 2 3+4's in year 11. Funnily enough, it gave me my equal highest study score.

[Eriny]

I imagine that Religion-y subjects that are compulsory might be worth actually trying in. If students just do it because it's compulsory and aren't interested at all and don't really try, then wouldn't it be easier to get a high raw study score in the subject? (I suppose that doesn't really work for English, but still...)

[jimmy999]

I imagine that Religion-y subjects that are compulsory might be worth actually trying in. If students just do it because it's compulsory and aren't interested at all and don't really try, then wouldn't it be easier to get a high raw study score in the subject? (I suppose that doesn't really work for English, but still...)

Religion subjects actually aren't that easy. My friends who did Texts and Traditions found it to be really difficult and the highest in their class was a 36. Texts does scale up by the most 2, whilst Religion and Society stays exactly the same. My 38 went to a 38.01.

Though a lot of students do the subject and don't try that hard, there are still a fair amount of people who put in a massive effort in the subject. It's pretty difficult to get over 40 in RE subjects. Also the exam requires a fair amount of writing. The Texts and Traditions exam requires 10-12 pages of writing within 2 hours. You have 3 10 mark short answer questions, 2 20 mark passage analyses, and 1 30 mark essay. It's like doing the English exam except with one less hour to complete it in

[amyminchin]

I went to an exclusively christian school (at least one parent must be a regular church goer) and we did not have to do a scored religion class. We had to do a "subject" called Biblical Studies which turned out to be more of a discussion class on what we believe in terms of our faith and what people of other faiths believe. It was actually really interesting. And when it came close to exam time it became a real vent session... I really enjoyed it. It was a chance to relax and debate [which I enjoy doing... ]. But I know some Christian schools are very strict about doing T&T or Religion.

[humph]

I imagine that Religion-y subjects that are compulsory might be worth actually trying in. If students just do it because it's compulsory and aren't interested at all and don't really try, then wouldn't it be easier to get a high raw study score in the subject? (I suppose that doesn't really work for English, but still...)

Religion subjects actually aren't that easy. My friends who did Texts and Traditions found it to be really difficult and the highest in their class was a 36. Texts does scale up by the most 2, whilst Religion and Society stays exactly the same. My 38 went to a 38.01.

Though a lot of students do the subject and don't try that hard, there are still a fair amount of people who put in a massive effort in the subject. It's pretty difficult to get over 40 in RE subjects. Also the exam requires a fair amount of writing. The Texts and Traditions exam requires 10-12 pages of writing within 2 hours. You have 3 10 mark short answer questions, 2 20 mark passage analyses, and 1 30 mark essay. It's like doing the English exam except with one less hour to complete it in

Woah, it was the oppositve at my school. Pretty much all of the class would get over 40 in T&T every year (there'd only be about 10 in the class though). But they taught extremely well to the exam. Xavier was also regularly excellent at T&T, if memory serves.

[physics]

At my school it was compulsory to do Religion in year 11. Most people chose to do Units 1/2 of Religion and Society. But those who realised that we were forced to do decided to make it actually count so they chose either 3/4 Religion and Society or 3/4 Texts and Traditions. There was a fourth, copout option where people could've chosen Art/RE which apparently was a bludge. Good thing is RE wasn't compulsory in year 12

same same

[slothpomba]

I go to a catholic school. We had to do some form of compulsory religion in year 11 (Either Unit 1/2  OR *JUST* One unit) (Eg I did unit 2 religion + a semester of general math methods (a subject my school made up to cover some of the easier things in methods) ).

In year 12, they've come to the decision that since it is a catholic school (and indeed the biggest one in the state) that you should have to do religion. So they are forcing us to take some kind of religion, either continue on from your unit 1/2 studies and do 3/4 RE as one of your 5 subjects OR do an internal RE as a 6th subject.

The internal RE isnt a proper VCE unit (we had a couple internal choices: Religious Art, Community Service or Contemporary Culture Studies (religion in culture, i chose this one). So now i have 6 subjects and are somewhat disadvantaged compared to someone not doing 6 subjects or being made to do RE like my mate who goes to a private school.

Last year they had a lot of problems with people not showing up to internal RE classes like this, so they got wise. They're making us sign a contract promising to come or otherwise we might not be allowed to attend graduation, the formal, year 12 breakfast, ect.

[Edit: I probably made it sound a bit more pessimistic than i was intending, hopefully it is a bludge subject. Also note it is only one semester in length i think so it leave free periods for the end of year exams, doesnt help science students with mid year exams though..]