Self Study Unit's 1 & 2 and doing Units 3&4 at school

[william.woon]

Hi, I'm just wondering is it possible to study units 1 & 2 of subjects and do Units 3 & 4 at school? Thanks for responses!

[golden]

Hi, I'm just wondering is it possible to study units 1 & 2 of subjects and do Units 3 & 4 at school? Thanks for responses!

Hey,

It depends on the subject, your abilities and the school. It's very hard to answer this without more information. Let's start off with: which subject/s were you considering?

[chasej]

Hi, I'm just wondering is it possible to study units 1 & 2 of subjects and do Units 3 & 4 at school? Thanks for responses!

What do you mean? Question not worded so well tbh.

[william.woon]

Hey,

It depends on the subject, your abilities and the school. It's very hard to answer this without more information. Let's start off with: which subject/s were you considering?

I was thinking of subjects such as: accounting, business management, economics, legal studies and small businesses.

[vox nihili]

I was thinking of subjects such as: accounting, business management, economics, legal studies and small businesses.

These should be fine.

[william.woon]

Thanks

[Lasercookie]

Hi, I'm just wondering is it possible to study units 1 & 2 of subjects and do Units 3 & 4 at school? Thanks for responses!

Is your question if you can self study Unit 1 & 2, skip actually doing them and then go straight into Units 3/4? If you're going to end up not doing any Unit 1/2 subjects at all, then probably not. Take a look at the criteria to receive your VCE, and also the criteria to receive an ATAR. http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/pages/faqs/vcecurrentstudents.aspx#H3N10051 You're going to have to complete 16 VCE Units. Sure you could 16 units of Unit 3/4 only (essentially 8 Year 12 subjects) and that'd satisfy that criteria (from what I can see anyway, but you'd have to do two English subjects), but the normal way would be to do about 5 subjects where you do the entire sequence from Units 1 to 4 (i.e. not skip Year 11), which easily satisfies that minimum 16 units you have to do.

If you're just asking whether you can switch into a new subject at the start of Year 12, i.e. doing a couple of subjects without doing the Unit 1/2, then yeah that really should be fine for most subjects. Some schools might not let you do a 3/4 without doing the 1/2, but there's no strict VCAA rule against it for most subjects. That's all assuming you're doing enough units to get your VCE though.

[william.woon]

Thanks for your reply, well I wasn't thinking of doing 8 year 12 subjects throughout VCE. Might just do a few only though. Thanks for your response!

[vox nihili]

Thanks for your reply, well I wasn't thinking of doing 8 year 12 subjects throughout VCE. Might just do a few only though. Thanks for your response!

No real benefit in doing 8 as two of them won't count to your ATAR whatsoever.

[Lasercookie]

Thanks for your reply, well I wasn't thinking of doing 8 year 12 subjects throughout VCE. Might just do a few only though. Thanks for your response!

You didn't clarify which option were you thinking of doing, I'm still unsure of what your question is. If it's the first thing I mentioned, skipping actually doing all your Unit 1/2 subjects, the answer is basically no, because from what I can see the combination that allows that (doing 8 Year 12 subjects, 2 of them being English subjects) is probably a bit ridiculous

You also have to remember that Unit 1/2 subjects provide a pretty important foundation and that they're not useless. It really is best (and makes things easier) if you put the time into doing them properly, which means spending a year on them.

[vox nihili]

You didn't clarify which option were you thinking of doing, I'm still unsure of what your question is. If it's the first thing I mentioned, skipping actually doing all your Unit 1/2 subjects, the answer is basically no, because from what I can see the combination that allows that (doing 8 Year 12 subjects, 2 of them being English subjects) is probably a bit ridiculous

You also have to remember that Unit 1/2 subjects provide a pretty important foundation and that they're not useless. It really is best (and makes things easier) if you put the time into doing them properly, which means spending a year on them.

Not to mention that going straight into year twelve subjects without having done any year elevens will be the absolute shock of your life. Personally, I think it's better to have the majority in the one year than spread out. Then you can get into "year twelve mode" for a year. Pretty bloody hard to keep that up for much longer!