Subject Choices - Survey

[boysenberry]

There seem to be a lot of high achievers on this site, but how many of you are doing the asian five? From looking at people's signatures I've seen plenty come close but no BINGO. I want to know how many people are doing these subjects and why they are doing them. Why choose so many hard subjects? What's your motivation?

[Flaming_Arrow]

look at Ahmad's study scores if u want a bingo

[n.f]

Maybe; if I don't get umep bio I might pick up specialist (if it runs at my school)

[minilunchbox]

They scale up. Personally, I like science and my school doesn't offer any of the subjects I'd rather do (e.g philosophy, revolutions, eng lang/lit etc). But I don't understand the people who do it just because they scale up and then end up pursuing commerce or something completely unrelated in Uni.

Anyway, I was a bingo until a few months ago when I decided that physics bores me. A lot. Also I'd rather do well in psych then do mediocore in spesh despite the scaling (and this also allows me to pursue UMEP psych). Yeah, there might be a logic fail on my part here.

[shinny]

Was going to be another asian 5'er, but I didn't really like physics (well, more that I sucked at it) and also that MHS had a nice track history with BM. Turns out it was a good decision eh?

[EvangelionZeta]

No way in hell.  I epic fail Sciences.

[m@tty]

What are the asian 5?
methods. spec. physics. chemistry. ??

[minilunchbox]

Courtesy of urbandictionary: The subjects taken in your VCE years in Victoria - Specialist Maths, Maths Methods, Physics, Chemistry, English and fast-track Biology in year 11

Except fast-track Biology can be replaced with fast-track Methods, and a LOTE can be thrown in there as well, but that's optional.

[m@tty]

So does that mean i do the asian 5??
given I do methods3+4 in year 11
and spesh, physics, chemistry and english?

[shinny]

I don't think the 'fast-track Biology' is part of it, considering that's 6 subjects anyway. It's usually defined as spesh, methods, chem, physics and mainstream english. That, together with accounting is now usually also known as the 'curry six'.

So does that mean i do the asian 5??
given I do methods3+4 in year 11
and spesh, physics, chemistry and english?

Yep.

[minilunchbox]

I didn't know accounting was part of it. That's the subject people in my school pick as a filler or bludge. lol how wrong they were.

[NE2000]

Asian 5 here!

It's usually defined as spesh, methods, chem, physics and mainstream english. That, together with accounting is now usually also known as the 'curry six'.

Never heard of this 'curry six' lol

[ninwa]

Was going to be another asian 5'er, but I didn't really like physics (well, more that I sucked at it) and also that MHS had a nice track history with BM.

Ditto (except replace MHS with my school). My 1/2 physics teacher was useless and made the subject a chore to study, so I dropped it for biology.

Would've done spesh if my stupid school had let me do it by correspondence (it clashed with another subject I was not willing to drop). Motivations were
1. I liked methods and wanted a challenge
2. The scaling (shame on me)

[shinny]

Was going to be another asian 5'er, but I didn't really like physics (well, more that I sucked at it) and also that MHS had a nice track history with BM.

Ditto (except replace MHS with my school). My 1/2 physics teacher was useless and made the subject a chore to study, so I dropped it for biology.

Would've done spesh if my stupid school had let me do it by correspondence (it clashed with another subject I was not willing to drop). Motivations were
1. I liked methods and wanted a challenge
2. The scaling (shame on me)

Actually I wasn't even meant to do spesh. I put down General (the one which leads to Further) in year 11, but they chucked me in General Advanced, probably because they thought I typo'd it given my track history with Maths. On the first day I was going to change, but since I couldn't be stuffed going through all the paperwork and formalities, I guess I just stuck with it =\

[jimmy999]

I would've picked Physics in year 11, but our school requires us to complete Religion as a VCE subject hence I didn't have room for it then. Then this year I considered picking up Physics but the careers counsellor advised against it. Oh how I wish I went against his decision. Hence I'll try to pick up some physics subjects in Uni