Subject Selection

[AirLandBus]

First off, i wasnt sure where to put the thread so i just chucked it here - feel more then free to move it for me .
Its that time of year again - subject selection for my final year (yay) in 2015.
I need help with the selections, which are as follow.

Selection 1
Methods - average overall around a 84 but can improve as im not at my full potential (in terms of effort).
Physics - probs my strongest subject 93% overall this year
Software development - good to pickup and related to the future of engineering (recommended by family engineers)
Religion - compulsory as catholic school
English - also compulsory
Further - try and score high and use it as a 'bludge' subject.
Product design and tech - completed this year (2014)

Selection 2
Methods - average overall around a 84 but can improve as im not at my full potential (in terms of effort).
Physics - probs my strongest subject 93% overall this year
Software development - good to pickup and related to the future of engineering (recommended by family engineers)
Religion - do the one that counts towards as study score/atar and get extra studies/frees for each cycle (but i tend to suck at Religion - just passing at the moment but i dont do any work what so ever)
   and as a result not do further as my dad doesnt think further is great and that id get too bored.
English - compulsory
Product design and tech - completed this year (2014)

Selection 1 pros and cons
Pro - can kinda use further has a 'study' and potentially still get a high score
con - bigger workload

Selection 2 pros and cons
extra studies (pro) which i can devote to scoring high in physics and methods.
Con - have to do religion that im not great at (mainly probs due to my effort).
Pro - dont need to put too much effort into religion as it will likely become my last (10%) study score.
Pro - less of a work load (to an extent).

Any advice guys? What are your thoughts?
Thanks,

[keltingmeith]

So you want to be an engineer? Any reason you're not doing specialist? You'll have to learn it later anyway, may as well start now when you have more time for it.

[LiquidPaperz]

further is not a bludge.

[AirLandBus]

So you want to be an engineer? Any reason you're not doing specialist? You'll have to learn it later anyway, may as well start now when you have more time for it.

Yea, our school doesnt run specialist, so id have to do it via correspondence which is pretty hard. And when i went to Monash open day, they said its fine and just do it as a elective.

[AirLandBus]

Yea, our school doesnt run specialist, so id have to do it via correspondence which is pretty hard. And when i went to Monash open day, they said its fine and just do it as a elective.

Im kinda of aware of that, how hard is it and what is the workload like to get a god score for someone considering my scores in methods?

[AirLandBus]

So maybe, rather then doing two maths and possibly scoring bad (+ a bigger workload), im better off doing the religion that counts, get the extra studies and even if i do bad it will only become my 6th, putting more effort into methods and physics, score higher and balance itself out to an extent. Thoughts? Recommendations?

[keltingmeith]

What modules do your school do for Further?

[LiquidPaperz]

im doing further this year in year 11 for the same reason you want to do it next year (easy if you dont drop marks). Trust me its easier said then done. Some questions can pop up on your sacs and your just like wtf, not because its hard (sometimes...) its tricky, the wording can get you and you can easily fall into those lose half mark traps.

Its so competitive that basically 1 mark lost on the exam is a study score, provided you are rank 1, something along those lines anyways. Do what you enjoy, i regret picking further this year!

[AirLandBus]

What modules do your school do for Further?

Sorry, cant help you, im not sure.

[AirLandBus]

im doing further this year in year 11 for the same reason you want to do it next year (easy if you dont drop marks). Trust me its easier said then done. Some questions can pop up on your sacs and your just like wtf, not because its hard (sometimes...) its tricky, the wording can get you and you can easily fall into those lose half mark traps.

Its so competitive that basically 1 mark lost on the exam is a study score, provided you are rank 1, something along those lines anyways. Do what you enjoy, i regret picking further this year!

Yea, a few people have said that on some various forum posts that ive read.

[AirLandBus]

So today I found out that there is a fair possibility that Spesh 3/4 is running next year. Which is strange because when i asked about who might be interested, no one said yes. But now, someone came up to me today and theres atleast 6 people putting it as first preference. A close maths teacher recommends that its not a good idea because none of us have done spesh 1/2 (aka advanced general). How true is this? How vital is 1/2 for 3/4? Can the content for 1/2 just be learned (the concept) as it arises in 3/4? Anybody done this?

[keltingmeith]

Sorry, cant help you, im not sure.

Find out - if they're doing linear relations and matrices, it'll be a breeze because of methods. Anything else, you'll be learning a lot of new content. Core will also help with probability in methods.

Advanced general is, as the name implies, advanced general, not specialist. You'll be fine with just methods 1/2.

[AirLandBus]

Find out - if they're doing linear relations and matrices, it'll be a breeze because of methods. Anything else, you'll be learning a lot of new content. Core will also help with probability in methods.

Advanced general is, as the name implies, advanced general, not specialist. You'll be fine with just methods 1/2.

Sweet. For you to score a 35 in spesh, what was your average sac/exam mark?

[keltingmeith]

Sweet. For you to score a 35 in spesh, what was your average sac/exam mark?

I'm going to be a horrible person and not tell you just because SAC/exam marks for me to get a 35 could be higher or lower for you to get a 35. Just do your best, and if you're first or second among your peers you're in a good position for a 35+. At my school (with a cohort of , the top two marks were 35 and 37, with third, fourth and I think fifth getting a 30.

[AirLandBus]

I'm going to be a horrible person and not tell you just because SAC/exam marks for me to get a 35 could be higher or lower for you to get a 35. Just do your best, and if you're first or second among your peers you're in a good position for a 35+. At my school (with a cohort of , the top two marks were 35 and 37, with third, fourth and I think fifth getting a 30.

Haha, classic. Ill try. They dont give us ranks against our cohort though