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specialist gone...
« on: October 12, 2009, 04:25:55 pm »
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At the moment I want to do specialist mathematics next year, however due to the lack of interest (only six students want to do it), we are being told to select another subject instead of it. Apart from encouraging other students to pick it up, does anyone have any good ideas so that my school could have a specialist class next year? Or so that I'd be able to do it next year at least? I don't want to do it through distance education as I think it would be too much work doing it through that. Has anybody faced similar problems? How did you counteract these difficulties? What should I do?

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« Reply #1 on: October 12, 2009, 04:31:53 pm »
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OOO. I feel your pain so much. It's so unfair. And then schools start saying we don't have resources to cater for a small class of only 6 etc.

That happened with Economcis for me!!!!! I was getting A+'s, and then coming up to year 12, like 1/4 of people of our class of like 13 were gonna drop it or do TAFE. I was like =.=*.

What I did was encouraged people to do it, and answered any questions they have coz some were inetrested but were too nervous to jump into it without having done Unit's 1/2.

I have never heard of being able to do to via distant education, and wish I kenw it was a possiblity (but mind you, we did end up having a year 12 class).

But look, if worse comes to worse, you still have distant education as an OPTION. So if you really liked it, perform well, and have an interest you would do it. Also, can you maybe get some really smart year 11's to do it? We did that for one of our subejcts and had like 4 year 11's + some year 12's= enough to run the class. But thing is by middle of year we only had 6 pplz doing subject (minimum to run was 10), but it continued coz year had started.

Sorry I'm not much help, but please consider distant education. We need motivated people like you who have an interest in a subject to follow their dreams! And not miss out coz not eough people do it. You will regret it in year 12/Uni, as  spesh maths opens many doors.

EDIT: Can I please also add. You can do it distant education. The what do you mean too much work? You must be intelligent enough to wanting to do it in first place, and its still year 12 work! So it's at your level. Furthermore you will have teachers at ur school who have taught spesh maths and they can HELP you, just coz a class isnt running doesnt mean no teachers who teach spesh maths are available. You can meet up once a week, twice or w/e.
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Re: specialist gone...
« Reply #2 on: October 12, 2009, 05:21:24 pm »
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Maybe if your school has a history of good study scores in Spesh, you could try emphasising how it'll potentially increase your school's median study score?

Otherwise please please please consider distance education! I knew someone who did spesh through distance - she ended up with a 40+ study score (can't remember exactly what though). Apparently it's not that difficult, you just have to make sure to do the work packets they send you, and you can email the teacher with questions you have (or ask questions on VN, there's so many maths gurus here!)
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Re: specialist gone...
« Reply #3 on: October 12, 2009, 05:38:20 pm »
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At the moment I want to do specialist mathematics next year, however due to the lack of interest (only six students want to do it), we are being told to select another subject instead of it. Apart from encouraging other students to pick it up, does anyone have any good ideas so that my school could have a specialist class next year? Or so that I'd be able to do it next year at least? I don't want to do it through distance education as I think it would be too much work doing it through that. Has anybody faced similar problems? How did you counteract these difficulties? What should I do?
That sucks bad, our spesh class is only 5 people and our teacher is willing to run it with 3 people. Distance education is only good if you know you can put the work in. Spec is one of those subjects you can't just memorise it all in the last month leading up to exams. You gotta work at it
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Re: specialist gone...
« Reply #4 on: October 12, 2009, 05:56:54 pm »
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I know you said not encouraging other people to join in but you could do what people at my school did a few years ago.
Basically a group of friends of someone who wanted it all put down specialist as a 6th subject so that it ran and dropped it in the first week. The school was running it so it kept running.
Another option is going to your principal and explaining the situation and how desperate you are to do specialist in 2010.

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Re: specialist gone...
« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2009, 01:00:33 am »
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Ok...I've decided to drop specialist mathematics and physics because of this. Does anyone know what sort of marks you need to get in the SACs and exams for psychology to get a 40+ Study Score?

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Re: specialist gone...
« Reply #6 on: October 14, 2009, 01:04:11 am »
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From what I've seen, pretty much straight A+s (with maybe one A) in typical VCE studies with low to average competition like Psychology.
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