We need to consider the context which sucker was used, because it can be offensive if used in specific ways. I am pretty sure that John President wasn't trying necessarily to offend/hurt you, it may have just been a fun jab (if I am not mistaken this is the person who previously had the words 'genital fungus' in their personal text lol) because constant abuse is against the rules, and Mr. President knows his rules!
With regard to your 'pedantic' questions which have been already addressed in the forum various times, a lot of us at one stage have been an offender, including me, because sometimes we just have to not just make sure, but double make sure, and see if the information that may have been addressed in the past still applies today. Considering that biomedicine is undergoing a few key changes next year with regard to its course, and especially as someone entering University who isn't as acclimatised to the environment, I think this is warranted. However, if you find that you cannot understand the answer provided etc. you could ask for elaborations, or personal message those for clarifications, because super repetitiveness with regard to the same issue all over the boards isn't following forum 'etiquette' and will get on the nerves of many. Random I know, but jinny1 asks who kenhung123 is. Well it is the kenhung123 himself! This person sent me the first PM I received on VCE Notes. Guess what it was about: clarification of something I was confused about, which may have been repeated already.
Next, with your mention that there are no 'good' answers, that in itself can be insulting to those who genuinely want to help, and extremely subjective to say at the least.
To somewhat address some questions, and other questions that may be common, I will summarise the details in this thread and within other threads, along with including some of my general thoughts:
- If you want to do postgraduate medicine, doing either Science and Biomedicine is fine; if you're absolutely sure on the long term on Health Sciences, then biomedicine is another consideration. If you aren't so sure, or want to possibly reach into other fields, Science offers you this option to a great degree.
- Do Science if you plan on doing Engineering, unless you specifically want to do bioengineering, which you may want to do biomedicine.
- If your back up is engineering, and you're not too sure if you're stuck on bioengineering, do Science, because:
1. Neither gives you an advantage on the GAMSAT etc. etc.
2. If you happen to end up choosing this pathway, you're open to more engineering options, perhaps more relevant to your situation.
Because I don't know much about how the specifics of the allocation, standardisation etc. of subjects, I will not argue too much about this point, but often it is said that subjects work so that not too many people get H1 (or H2A, or H2B, H3, P etc.) scores, and because Biomedicine may have a more competitive cohort etc. it may be harder to get a higher GPA from a purely generalising view. So it may be a disadvantage doing Biomedicine unless of three points:
1. You work really hard and smart etc. etc. as a student.
2. You have the username stonecold, mavisgibbons, darlok, Hancock (and others but it would take all night so I will leave you to ponder about it as you twiddle your thumbs) where it doesn't matter what you do.
3. You have the username stonecold, mavisgibbons, darlok or Hancock (and others but it would take all night so I will leave you to ponder about it as you twiddle your thumbs) where it doesn't matter what you do.
If you're not too keen on mathematics, you are made to do a year of it in biomedicine, and also physics. Statistics and physics as a combination are quite painful, because they are at times harder to relate to and intuitively understand. This may or may not support the disadvantaged view above for your situation. Because in my opinion, you cannot purely wing statistics, because you'll have weekly quizzes every week, have an assignment that is an extremely painful thing to do (I think last year was an exception because we had a new lecturer which made the assignment hard according to the tutors), have a computer test, so you need to know some computer commands and so forth. But this is just an opinion.
Apologies for getting off topic.
If you still want information about engineering after biomedicine, you could alternatively talk to the appropriate people in person, or PM someone, especially if you feel it you aren't getting your questions cleared up. With regard to bioengineering, I know a few people doing it who I can ask, which may be of some relevance as I don't know if there are many here on these forums. I hope you change your mind about this forum and the members, they are great people!
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who are you?
Even though I can get repetitive, it is because there are no good answers.
Tl;dr: I guess everyone is reading this part?