Revs: Should I do it?

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I've always wanted to do it, but backed out every single time due to the supposedly "heaviest workload of VCE". Since I'm nearing subject selections for my year 12 subjects, can someone please give me advice on whether if I should do Revs or not? Pros and cons? Also, I've been reading around and people are saying that the American and Russian revolutions are the least content heavy. Is this true? Thanks in advance for all help.

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I've always wanted to do it, but backed out every single time due to the supposedly "heaviest workload of VCE". Since I'm nearing subject selections for my year 12 subjects, can someone please give me advice on whether if I should do Revs or not? Pros and cons? Also, I've been reading around and people are saying that the American and Russian revolutions are the least content heavy. Is this true? Thanks in advance for all help.

well revs does have a very high workload. i changed subjects heaps in year 11 > 12 doing like 11 all up including general maths advanced (pre-spesh) and i can say that revs was the highest the workload out of every subject. BUT it was also the most fun and most interesting subject out of all my subjects. i would 100% do it again if i could go back in time even though it was my second lowest score ( high 30s) although i did no practice exams and next to no exam specific preparation. i had just studied heaps throughout the year, and revs is one of those subjects where if you really understand and learn things they make alot of sense and you dont need to flat out memorise shit. if you are interested i would say 100% do it because it was a very fun very rewarding subject. i did the american and russian revolution and i do not think they are an easy workload. france and russia are the most common if i remember correctly and i know a few schools that teach those 2 because they think they are the easiest. alot of revs teachers i know and talked to pretty much unanimously say america is the hardest because the historiography gets pretty wild and there are lots of weird legal-political sort of things and documents you need to know (all revolutions have this) that are particularly cooked in this instance. also the fact you have to learn heaps about 13 colonies rather than just 1 country makes it a bit harder too. i definitely feel like russia was pretty straight forward, but russian revs is one of those things where its pretty easy and not too much to learn to have a good answer to a question (that might net you scores in the upper 30's range for study score) but very very hard to absolutely smash because if you want to separate yourself into that upper echelon of students there is an absolute TROUGH of stuff to learn and know. so its pretty light incline up the score graph until you get to a certain point where suddenly alot more work is required to just get a couple more marks, whereas for america the progression is much more linear. this sounds really weird but dont worry

tl'dr fun but hard subject. do it if you are interested

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well revs does have a very high workload. i changed subjects heaps in year 11 > 12 doing like 11 all up including general maths advanced (pre-spesh) and i can say that revs was the highest the workload out of every subject. BUT it was also the most fun and most interesting subject out of all my subjects. i would 100% do it again if i could go back in time even though it was my second lowest score ( high 30s) although i did no practice exams and next to no exam specific preparation. i had just studied heaps throughout the year, and revs is one of those subjects where if you really understand and learn things they make alot of sense and you dont need to flat out memorise shit. if you are interested i would say 100% do it because it was a very fun very rewarding subject. i did the american and russian revolution and i do not think they are an easy workload. france and russia are the most common if i remember correctly and i know a few schools that teach those 2 because they think they are the easiest. alot of revs teachers i know and talked to pretty much unanimously say america is the hardest because the historiography gets pretty wild and there are lots of weird legal-political sort of things and documents you need to know (all revolutions have this) that are particularly cooked in this instance. also the fact you have to learn heaps about 13 colonies rather than just 1 country makes it a bit harder too. i definitely feel like russia was pretty straight forward, but russian revs is one of those things where its pretty easy and not too much to learn to have a good answer to a question (that might net you scores in the upper 30's range for study score) but very very hard to absolutely smash because if you want to separate yourself into that upper echelon of students there is an absolute TROUGH of stuff to learn and know. so its pretty light incline up the score graph until you get to a certain point where suddenly alot more work is required to just get a couple more marks, whereas for america the progression is much more linear. this sounds really weird but dont worry

tl'dr fun but hard subject. do it if you are interested

Thanks for the input. Just a question, how much hours per week do you think you dedicated to Revs? Also, do you think I can pre-learn content to lessen the workload?

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Thanks for the input. Just a question, how much hours per week do you think you dedicated to Revs? Also, do you think I can pre-learn content to lessen the workload?

probably when a sac was coming up i would do like 4 hours a night for maybe 4 nights in the week leading up to the sac. and for the exam i did very very little study. i didn't do much else otherwise other than reading stories about the revs here and there and watching docos and shit

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Just made an account to answer this question. Please please do Revs. It's by far the most rewarding and in my opinion most interesting subject VCE offers. The workload is not, in my opinion, very large because of the simple fact that most of the time, studying doesn't feel like studying but rather like leisure reading. In my experience (2015 Revs), as long as you study at least Russia as one of your AOS, you will find the unit great. There are so many websites and books you can find that can provide you with information that would impress examiners (as most of the examiners get sick to death of reading the same generic reasoning for each event). Hope this makes up your mind!!

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Just made an account to answer this question. Please please do Revs. It's by far the most rewarding and in my opinion most interesting subject VCE offers. The workload is not, in my opinion, very large because of the simple fact that most of the time, studying doesn't feel like studying but rather like leisure reading. In my experience (2015 Revs), as long as you study at least Russia as one of your AOS, you will find the unit great. There are so many websites and books you can find that can provide you with information that would impress examiners (as most of the examiners get sick to death of reading the same generic reasoning for each event). Hope this makes up your mind!!

Yeah, I'm probably going to do it . The only problem is that I don't I think it's going to run next year at my school, everyone wants to do ancient history instead