Only doing 5 year 12 subjects

[aiming_95]

Is doing 5 subjects and a uni enhancement subject too much workload ?

[Special At Specialist]

Is doing 5 subjects and a uni enhancement subject too much workload ?

In my school literally no-one is doing a uni enhancement subject, and my grades aren't particularly good across all subjects (C average in chemistry and D average in German) so I doubt they would accept me
I'm good at maths, but I'm just not consistent across all subjects.

[aiming_95]

Ohh.. they're selective ? how about if you want to do a Uni subject which isn't related to anything you've done in yr 11 ?

For example, if with my subjects (in sig) I sign up for Philosophy.

[Russ]

I remember 50 in Further/Geo/English and 50+ in French/Spanish, but any aggregate anywhere near 200 is pretty damn good

[Special At Specialist]

Even for philosophy you need good English skills. I'm averaging a B in English and a C in literature. They usually ask that you have:
An A average in the subject most related to the enhancement subject
A B average in all other subjects

[aiming_95]

I was just giving Philosophy as an example, I was actually looking for something related to History or Politics.

Bloody hell they'll never accept me with my marks this year. Long story short I picked all my yr 11 subjects based on the highest scaling.
I.e Chem, Methods etc which I hate with a passion, hence the horrible marks.


It'll be hard explaining to them that my yr 11 marks don't actually reflect my capabilities.


Oh well..

[Furbob]

Is doing 5 subjects and a uni enhancement subject too much workload ?

I did this (as you can see in my sig) and no, I didn't find it that difficult as I treated MUEP Jap like an extra boost to my VCE Japanese and it also depends on your subjects. I was considering doing Specialist at one stage but worried over people saying how demanding it was so I switched to Further instead

(although if I did do spesh I would've been a much better Methods student... hmm... :S)

but yes, it is possible.

[dc302]

I also did 5 + uni, and it was actually not much work at all. Uni jap and vce jap kinda blended together in terms of study, and I based my methods study on spesh anyway. So really I only had 'maths', 'japanese', chem and english to worry about.

[Sam_95]

hmmm, I'm on the same boat as you, only doing 5 subjects this year, Specialist Maths, Methods, Eng, Business Management (confident of a 45-50 on this) and Chemistry. I am really nervous about Chemistry, its my weak, very weak subject. Need to put together a few hours of very hard work over the holidays. I fear this is the main thing that can stop me from achieving my goal ATAR.

NEED TO GET INTO COMMERCE MELB UNI!!!

[Phy124]

Is my ATAR already ruined because I missed the opportunity to accelerate a subject? Do you know of anyone who has only done 5 subjects and still got a 90+ ATAR score? I feel like I've missed out on so much because I didn't accelerate a subject and I am filled with feelings of regret It's like you have everything to win from accelerating a subject with no disadvantage whatsoever.
Please tell me there was at least some advantage by not accelerating a subject...

I certainly wouldn't say so...

I only did 5 subjects for vce (methods, physics, chemistry, english, business) and I'm aiming for 90+

In reality not doing a 6th subject will cost you a maximum of 5 on your aggregate score.

The only time it really matters is if you do badly in all your subjects and don't do a 6th that you would've done better in. (In this case it could be more than 5 aggregate)

e.g. straight 35's in your original 5 and decide to do a 6th and score 50 in it (I'm sure you chuckled a bit at that, considering how unlikely it would be). This would mean the 50 would move into your top 4 boosting aggregate by 15 + another 3.5 for the 10% of 6th.

With this being said, I still regret not doing a subject like further in year 11 because adding even 3.5 do my aggregate would make my feelings of getting the clearly in atar I need much more certain.