I was seriously considering actuarial studies too and spent alot of time thinking about it.
The main reasons I didn't do actuarial studies was because:
... 2. You have to consistently take exams for 8 years to reach the highest salary.
The accreditation exams are for 3-4 years, depending on whether or not you did an honours year and applied for Exemption in Parts 1 & 2, isn't it?
i'm pretty sure if you do well enough in bachelor with honours, it gains you expemtion from parts 1 and 2. You then undertake part three while working and can complete that in 2 year if you reli wanted to, but most ppl take 3-4. Youa re then full qualified as an actuary and can work in Australia and Britian as an actuary with no problem.
dude are u kidding me if anything i would be dropping a subject. You obviously love maths so dont drop uni maths, u'll have a seriously awesome time, If i were you i'd actually DROP biol or Chem. You only need one of them for pre-req, and chem is beta for pre-req than biol, ie it gets you into more.
I actually was down to do legal studies this year and dropped it not 2 weeks ago. BEST DECISION......EVER. so much better for my other subjects.
Bottom line, DO NOT PICK UP PHYSICS, unless you drop biol. and concider dropping a subject (biol) but 8 subjects is crazy and will kill you. Unless of couse ur an absolute freak.
PS: from a more unbised point of view, do physics 1/2 next year and see you you go. both on your 1/2 s and ur 3/4s. if you get 3 49s drop physics. but reli i think its a bad idea to kepp physics.
PPS:Wat school do you go to that is letting you do 3 3/4s in year 11??? (not against ur school or anything, just interested)
Lol apparently there was a guy who did 10 VCE subjects, the IMO, and an Lmus and still got 99.95 a few years ago :O
I really like biology, because I have an amazing teacher And I'm doing well in it, so I don't want to drop that...
That's a great idea - I'll do my chinese at Chinese School next year and do Physics 1/2 at school
I don't know if they'll let me do 3 but I'll try and negotiate (they definitely let you do two), after all I'm not going to get the university penalty because I'm doing commerce maj. actstud at Melbourne probably, so the clearly-in is like 95.20 which won't be a problem.
I'm just assuming ur azn and ur pretty smart seeing as ur taking a ridiclous amount of subjects one of which is chinese. Would your really be happy with just scraping into commerce at melbourne? If you want to do well (i'm talking high 99) you need to smart about what you do and when. I know that when i did two 3/4s in yr 11, my 1/2 marks took a massive hit. I can't image it would be like with 3, especially with one of them being chinese. Don't be fooled by the mentality that "more subjects=higher enter" again, i think it would be foolish to do 8, but you know you capabilities much beta than you do so thats a decision you'll have to make.
And we all know that guys that are as good as the one you described are: anz, have no life and occur about once every 30 years, again, if your one of them, go for it, but in the niciest possible way your probably not, so we can't compare ourselves to those superfreaks.