Hello everyone!
I've never made a post before so I apologise if I am doing something wrong!!
So last year I accelerated 3u and 4u maths and I struggled a lot with it as I had some personal stuff going on. I genuinely really enjoyed it despite the fact I was really struggling at the time.
I got my HSC results last year and (unsurprisingly) I absolutely bombed EX2 because I put all the effort in 3u and none in 4u. I got a HSC mark of 69 in 4u. Over the holidays I was working on 4u questions and realized the concepts I was never able to grasp before were finally making sense to me.
So now that school started, I decided to join the new EX2 class but the maths head teacher isn't letting me. I've talked to numerous teachers at school and they keep saying that repeating is a terrible idea. They say it'll take away from my other subjects and there's no point to it.
I'm only doing 9 units atm but all of them are pretty content heavy (extension eng, advanced eng, legal, business studies, and chem). I was ranked pretty highly in my other subjects (around top 3) last year.
I am determined to put in the effort and pull my weight but it's as if no one believes in me. I'm not even sure what to do anymore. I was pretty excited to start this year and finally be able to study subjects that I truly want to. I already know all the content for 4u so I was going to spend most of the time just doing past papers. I was feeling pretty confident but now I don't even know anymore. It's just so frustrating to try to convince them (GRRR)
I just think that if I put in effort into 4u (which I am prepared to do), I could score a better mark. I hate that last year I put no effort into it. With everyone telling me I'm wrong, I just don't know what do to. Should I continue trying to convince my teacher to let me re-take it or just take their advice and just not care about math anymore?
Any advice about it would be much appreciated!!