General Advice - Secrets to VCE Success

[m@tty]

Do 2, then 2, then 4, if you can handle a small number of subjects, or 5 if you prefer more

EDIT:
In doing 4 before starting your final year you have the option, (if you have completed an English) if your ENTER is good enough, to commence tertiary education in the following year instead of labouring through another year of VCE.

[kyzoo]

Do 2 and 4, and then in Y12 repeat any subjects you screwed up.

[brightsky]

Btw I did Aims tests and some weird University of New South Wales tests (forced to, all accelerated students had to). I was in the top 3% in Maths, 4% in English and 8& for Science (UNSW tests) and for my Aims I was off the little bar showing how good you are (don't know what it all meant) for all of them. I think it would've meant top 5%/10% or something like that. I don't know if it helps but from what you all know about my academic smarts what score would you be expecting? and more importantly, do you think I'll get a high enough score for a commerce degree?

AIMs testing would be similar to the GAT, it's irrelevant to VCE.

Yep have a look at the past exams. LOTE subjects in VCE are pretty weird. Sometimes even if you are generally good at Japanese, it doesn't automatically translate to a high score in VCE.

Yes, the girls at Macrob have been told that if you like Maths, you'll like Eng Lang. I don't think that's 100% veritable, but it may be the case for some people. English Language is a very new subject, and the stuff learnt has a huge disparity to what you'll find in Literature or English. To give you an insight, Eng Lang explores English itself, analysing the English spoken by Chinese people, Indian people, British people, American people, etc. It also entails you to analyse the purpose of slang, jargon, etc. etc. It's all fresh and exciting!

Remember you need to do at least one English subject out of English, Lit and Eng Lang, or if you are a non-background speaker, ESL.

P.S. Can you PM me back if possible?

Wow analyse the English spoken by Chinese people? Would that be translating word-for-word from Chinese, or something else?

Yes, I really don't think competitions are relevant to VCE, but it may be a vague indicator of how you'll go in VCE.

And, kyzoo, it's about how Chinese people speak English. For instance, some Chinese people tend to say "sree" instead of "three" or "lo" as "no". These stuff are then measured against stuff like how Indian people speak English (i.e. the Indian accent), how British people speak English, Americans, etc. They have special names for them as well, if my memory serves me well, there's Singlish, Chinglish, etc. etc.

[kyzoo]

Omg, I need to do English Language so I can learn how to speak a proper foreign accent; but my school doesn't offer it =(

[brightsky]

Omg, I need to do English Language so I can learn how to speak a proper foreign accent; but my school doesn't offer it =(

lolz!

[amirite?]

If youre going to do 1/2 then skip a year before doing 3/4 then you may as well not do 1/2 at all.

[brightsky]

If youre going to do 1/2 then skip a year before doing 3/4 then you may as well not do 1/2 at all.

+1 You'll forget everything by the time you do 3/4 anyway.

[nbalakers24]

why are you doign year 11 twice?

[amirite?]

Maybe you should do this:


Year 11:
English     Business Management (3/4)      General Maths       Accounting      History(?)     German(?)    

Year 11+:
English Language     Maths Methods     Further Maths (3/4)     Economics/Legal Studies      Psychology      Accounting (3/4)

Year 12:
English Language (3/4)     Maths Methods (3/4)     Economics/Legal Studies (3/4)     Psychology (3/4)    




English 1/2 would be good just to give you some more experience. History is good just for a bit of enlightenment. You could do any 1/2s that you might be interested in just to fill in time in year 11.

[monokekie]

apart from English, you can pick whatever you like. pick the things that scales, unless you really distaste the subject (and think twice about spesh).

English is the most important, and the other 3 subjects that scale-up are also very important.

there's a reason why people do asian five, because it produces high enters. I suggest that you do them if you don't really mind what you do and don't have very strong interest in particular subjects

[brightsky]

apart from English, you can pick whatever you like. pick the things that scales, unless you really distaste the subject (and think twice about spesh).

English is the most important, and the other 3 subjects that scale-up are also very important.

there's a reason why people do asian five, because it produces high enters. I suggest that you do them if you don't really mind what you do and don't have very strong interest in particular subjects

Agreed. But make sure the subjects you pick are the ones that you like the MOST. More often than not, interest broaches an eagerness to interact with the subject more often, and is more likely to give you high marks.

Also, having a quick look at your subject selections, I think you covered your grounds pretty well. Just keep in mind the prereqs for your desired uni course if you haven't already. All the best.

[superflya]

why are you doign year 11 twice?

haha.

[*ryan777*]

apart from English, you can pick whatever you like. pick the things that scales, unless you really distaste the subject (and think twice about spesh).

English is the most important, and the other 3 subjects that scale-up are also very important.

there's a reason why people do asian five, because it produces high enters. I suggest that you do them if you don't really mind what you do and don't have very strong interest in particular subjects

lol most people at my school that did the asian 5 got terrible enters

[kyzoo]

^ five of the seven 99.95's from MGS this year did the Asian 5.

And the two that didn't are disqualified from Asian 5 only because they didn't do Physics.

[littlebecc]

I don't agree with choosing the subjects that scale up. What's the point in doing spesh if you hate maths? There would be no point. Do the subjects you enjoy.