If you do super scaled languages, is the bonus on only one?

[iffets12345]

I thought Hebrew would only be offered in ethnic schools like Mt Scopus?

[kakar0t]

I fucking hate you people. I did a LOTE that gets scaled down. Oh, yes work your ass off so your study score doesn't go up by 13, no it goes DOWN...

[Chavi]

I thought Hebrew would only be offered in ethnic schools like Mt Scopus?

Not so. It's offered in quite a few public schools as well as through vsl.
On a side note, I don't believe any school in Victoria defines itself by ethnicity - so this is a patently false assumption. Religion based maybe, not ethnic.

I fucking hate you people. I did a LOTE that gets scaled down. Oh, yes work your ass off so your study score doesn't go up by 13, no it goes DOWN...

What lote is that kakr0t?

[kyzoo]

I thought Hebrew would only be offered in ethnic schools like Mt Scopus?

No so. It's offered in quite a few public schools as well as through vsl.
On a side note, I don't believe any school in Victoria defines itself by ethnicity - so this is a patently false assumption. Religion based maybe, not ethnic.

St Johns Greek Orthodox College

[Chavi]

I thought Hebrew would only be offered in ethnic schools like Mt Scopus?

No so. It's offered in quite a few public schools as well as through vsl.
On a side note, I don't believe any school in Victoria defines itself by ethnicity - so this is a patently false assumption. Religion based maybe, not ethnic.

St Johns Greek Orthodox College

Lol, i think you're just trying to be funny. You do realize that 'greek orthodox' refers to a church. You don't have to be greek to believe in or attend this schools.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Orthodox_Church

[letsride]

dunno why people do languages when they're pretty good at them in the first place. For me, i dont give two shits about the atar score. Considering i wasn't born here and my native language is done here in vce but there's no "FL/SL etc", i couldve got an easy 45+ =P. instead i'm doing Lit ^____^.
I do subjects to learn new things, not to boost my marks.

p.s i find it funny in my lit class, we have quite a few immigrants who've been here less than 5 years. One girl is doing ESL as well as lit, ahaha

[IntoTheNewWorld]

dunno why people do languages when they're pretty good at them in the first place. For me, i dont give two shits about the atar score. Considering i wasn't born here and my native language is done here in vce but there's no "FL/SL etc", i couldve got an easy 45+ =P.

Answered yourself there lol. Yeah the LOTE system fails epically.

[binders]

i think it works, since i benefited from it
i took latin & french (no background in either), and the scaling has made a CSP place at uni possible which i probably wouldn't have got otherwise.
otoh, a unit 2 german class i sat in on was mostly made up of students who spoke german at home who were using it as an easy option.  If the point of the scaling is to encourage people to get some language qualifications, then even if FL learners get in, isn't it still doing the job?

[werdna]

I am doing Latin (at one of the only two government schools offering it) and I must say... the level of difficulty and amount of hard work deserves that boost of 16/17...

Of course no one should be choosing subjects purely on scaling prospects.. but a Latin 35 to 50 just seemed so darn tempting. But I also chose it because I want to get into Law.. and it also helps a LOT with English (now that grammar/linguistics has been neglected in secondary english).

[iffets12345]

Wish more schools offered Latin, I hope uni somehow offers it as an elective.

[werdna]

Wish more schools offered Latin, I hope uni somehow offers it as an elective.

I would assume Latin would be in a course like Arts?

[werdna]

Yep! http://arts.monash.edu.au/classical/ugrad/latin.php

[Fyrefly]

Yep! http://arts.monash.edu.au/classical/ugrad/latin.php

Actually, I know someone studying Latin atm. She says it helps infinitely with French.

[iffets12345]

Yep! http://arts.monash.edu.au/classical/ugrad/latin.php

I've seen the one in monash, its under classical studies or something. Unfortunately I don't think I'll be pursuing arts, but I really want to learn Latin/continue French. URGH inflexible uni. jks.