HHD 3/4 with no 1/2?

[VCVelaga]

Got year 11 next year and need one last subject to cap off my 6. Just wondering if HHD is easy to do with no 1/2? Thanks if not, what 3/4 do you advise I do?

[mishamigo]

Health is fine without 1/2. It's mostly the first topic you'll have a slight disadvantage on, thats all! Psych is (apparently) quite easy to pick up as well.

[VCVelaga]

Aah thanks :) what is the first topic exactly?

[mishamigo]

It's Australia's health status. You'll just have a disadvantage to the others who would know the acronyms (LE, HALE, DALYs) and their definitions. Nothing too major

[VCVelaga]

Oritee sweet, thanks :)

[Lindoro]

I'm doing HHD 3/4 this year without having done Units 1/2 and am having no problem with it. My teacher says 3/4 is quite a different approach to a lot of the topics than 1/2 but I can't say for sure. I was out of school for a while and HHD was by far the easiest subject for me to pick up so I'm sure you'd be fine, especially if you found the subject interesting.

[teletubbies_95]

Since my school doesnt offer HHD 1/2 , a lot of girls still pick up the subject. It's a relatively easy subject to pick up, but you have to be extra careful on not losing marks ,and specificity is needed in each answer. But overall, you don't  really require 1/2 to do well in it. My bestie got a 50 without doing 1/2 last year!

[Joseph41]

I didn't do Health 1/2. I don't feel like I missed out on anything at all (apart from a few initialisms as mentioned earlier). I think you'll be absolutely fine if you choose to pick up Health 3/4.

Best of luck either way!

[The Brightest Witch]

HHD is probably one of the most ideal subjects for jumping straight into 3/4.

I did 1/2, and obviously, anything from 1/2 that you need in 3/4 is covered again extensively. There isn't any assumed knowledge, or rushing through something because 'you should know it from last year'.

Basically, the advantages of doing 1/2 are that first of all, you get a feel for the subject and how to answer questions and analyse graphs, which is a pretty general skill. Also, the tone or focus of the subject kind of changes from 1/2 to 3/4 so even that advantage is limited.

The other advantage is that you already have an idea of some of the things that are covered in both years, and doing them in 3/4 serves as a kind of revision. But again, they're covered both years, so meh. Things like:

- Definitions right at the start of unit 3 for health, the dimensions of health, health status, measures of health status (life expectancy, mortality, morbidity, burden of disease, etc.)
- Nutrition (Just the nutrients, what they do, which foods we can find them in)
- Medicare and Private Health Insurance

To sum up, yeah go for it.

[VCVelaga]

Alrightee thanks guys! What about any other 3/4s worth jumping straight into?

[The Brightest Witch]

Heard good things about Business Management and Psychology - ask around, but pretty much any subject that actually says on the VCAA website that you can do 3/4 without 1/2

[Joseph41]

I did BusMan and Psych 1/2 and I found both of them to be irrelevant to 3/4 (particularly Business).