Legal Studies

[goku69]

Hello guys,
I am in year 12 for 2015. I was thinking about doing Legal Studies this year, however I did not do Legal Studies in year 11. I was wondering if that would disadvantage me in any way and is there a particular skill that you need to be able to get a high mark for this subject, or is it just hard work and effort that gets you a high mark?

I am thinking about dropping Mathematical Methods (CAS) for Legal because I did not enjoy Methods at all. However, the benefit of continuing methods is that I have previously completed units 1 and 2 so there is a sense of security since I am familiar with the subject and I know what to expect. Do you guys think it would be a good idea to replace methods with Legal in year 12 and risk it? I completed year 11 methods with an A+ average if that helps.

Do I need to be great at English to do well in Legal Studies?

[M_BONG]

Hello guys,
I am in year 12 for 2015. I was thinking about doing Legal Studies this year, however I did not do Legal Studies in year 11. I was wondering if that would disadvantage me in any way and is there a particular skill that you need to be able to get a high mark for this subject, or is it just hard work and effort that gets you a high mark?

I am thinking about dropping Mathematical Methods (CAS) for Legal because I did not enjoy Methods at all. However, the benefit of continuing methods is that I have previously completed units 1 and 2 so there is a sense of security since I am familiar with the subject and I know what to expect. Do you guys think it would be a good idea to replace methods with Legal in year 12 and risk it? I completed year 11 methods with an A+ average if that helps.

Do I need to be great at English to do well in Legal Studies?

Nah, you don't need 1/2 to do 3/4. I didn't do Year 11 Legal and it didn't affect me at all because most of Unit 2 (civil law in action) is completely irrelevant to Year 12. Also, Legal Studies has really easy concepts in that there are no "assumed knowledge" from Year 11. Plus you learn everything you need for the exam in Year 12 - no teacher is going to be like "oh you probably learned this in Year 11, we won't teach it"

And yeah no, you don't need to be good at English - the skills do not carry over. You just need to be able to write coherent English and be able to memorise quite a lot of facts, haha.

If you don't enjoy Methods - don't do it. Maths is something (I think) you need some level of interest or passion to do well. I mean I did Methods and the course was pretty interesting and the good thing is that Year 11 Methods is very similar to Year 12 Methods. You learn more Probability and slightly advanced Calculus in Year 12, but it's very similar.

However, one thing is that scaling will not compensate for doing Methods if you hate it despite the pretty awesome scaling - Maths is pretty competitive. I got a 33 in Specialist because I hated it despite spending the most amount of time in it thinking scaling would compensate, lol. Same with Legal though, you need to maintain interest in the course content or else everything will be a bore.

So yeah, drop Methods if you don't like it - despite averaging A+ - because letter grades in SACs this year don't mean much (probably gives false sense of security) since VCAA can moderate your school letter grades next year anyway.