Dropping a Subject (Methods)

[tram]

lol, i'm pretty sure six subjects would FORCE you to get good at time management......and azure, don't even bother going there, srly, just do the two in year 11 and four plus uni in yr 12, don;t bother with going ANYWHERE NEAR six subjects in eyar 12 afer aceing two in yr 11 which you will

[vexx]

I voted don't drop it.

I'm bad at methods and i hate it, it gives me heaps of homework (which i dont do half the time..might explain why im bad) and i would love to drop it.

I keep it for two reasons:

1) I know it doesnt seem like it now but you may change your mind on what you want, you dont want to be locked in.

2)Say you dont get into medicine, what are your backups, i can think of biomed and science all of which need methods... For this reason i take it... You sound confident you'll get into med... surely you need backups?

You also only really listed 1 course when you said the course(s) you want to get into dont need methods...*shrug*

Anyway i say keep it

i dont understand why people keep saying that i think i'm confident that i'll get in.
i'm extremely under-confident, there's a reason i don't have a set date for getting into medicine on my signature..

well the courses i want to do don't require methods except one course. my first preferences are those of american colleges (don't need methods) then its UNSW and Monash (neither methods) and then UQ's Dual degree which does require methods but i would definitely take a gap year before moving to uq so i could easily do it via distance with minimal work..

Keep it. It's more useful than further and also serves as a good backup if you dont get into your course. Considering your not doing work for methods dropping it wont free up much time at all. I think you should drop further because it is pretty much useless for the future.

i would never drop further for very obvious reasons :p

don't do it. trust me, just don't. I dropped legal at the start of the year and it has not help that much at all.

If you want someone to convice you to keep it, talk to ed cliff in ur muep class tomorrow and tell him to tell you the story of his idiot best friend called daniel tram who dropped legal whihc was a shit decision. Trust me, ed can be very pursuasive.....

why was it a bad decision? you did amazing last year so you didn't need to do legal? i'm sure you'll do amazing without it and it's not like it's a prereq.

I'm pretty much wasting my spares now. like i coud;ve done well in legal, i was up there in scores last year and my teaceher said he would be surprised if i got below 40. I the thing is, to get what i want, chinese can't be in my top 4 and that means that i need to ace all three of my subjects this year whihc is really risky to bank on. Wiht legal, it wodn;t be a hell of a lot of work, it gives me a back up and you just never know, it could've been my top subject, if you just an awesome day.


And trust me when i say that more free time does not mean a higher score in others. You might as well subject yourself to one year of hell and you'll know you can cope with whatever gets thrown at you in future.

this makes sense, i can understand the feeling exactly. except i know for a fact methods wont be in my top four anyway and most likely be my 7th so there;s no way i could feel what your feeling nw, besides, i absolutely hate maths and i know if i have a higher work load in the future it will be fine since i'll be doing what i want to do.

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argh you have all convinced me to stick with it, i'll try and speak to my teacher about not attending most classes tomorrow then haha ><

[Twenty10]

Is 6 subjects in year 12 survivable if you have really good time management skills?

Depends on the individual not just time management.

[vexx]

lol, i'm pretty sure six subjects would FORCE you to get good at time management......and azure, don't even bother going there, srly, just do the two in year 11 and four plus uni in yr 12, don;t bother with going ANYWHERE NEAR six subjects in eyar 12 afer aceing two in yr 11 which you will

nah i have the absolute worst time management htat has gotten worse due to the fact i am too stressesd to do any homework because i have so much >< luckily i am not going to even attempt methods so thats some stress load off~ i wont do well at all this year anyway (due to english) so i may be forced to repeat next year..i guess i'll not have to worry about methods then

[appianway]

If you want to go to the US, keep methods. They prefer well rounded students, and maths is honestly a core subject.

[Twenty10]

Keep it. It's more useful than further and also serves as a good backup if you dont get into your course. Considering your not doing work for methods dropping it wont free up much time at all. I think you should drop further because it is pretty much useless for the future.

i would never drop further for very obvious reasons :p

Yeah but u may screw up the further exam and get raped on scaling. if i were u i would drop Further or Phys Ed. since u dont need them for anything.

And yer i assumed this as well....

If you want to go to the US, keep methods. They prefer well rounded students, and maths is honestly a core subject.

[vexx]

If you want to go to the US, keep methods. They prefer well rounded students, and maths is honestly a core subject.

I'm already doing another maths subject, and my SATs will consist on two maths (with only one submitted) and chem, if i stayed with methods they would think i was certainly not an all around student. but yeah i may stay with it anywayy

Yeah but u may screw up the further exam and get raped on scaling. if i were u i would drop Further or Phys Ed. since u dont need them for anything.

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Sorry but that's the worst suggestion ever, if you were me you would laughing at that comment considering phys ed is towards one of my best subjects and further is so easy that a 45+ is not going to be hard, without either i have no chance at doing well. let's see, getting 46 in further or 40 in methods? clearly im not wasting my time on methods when furhter requires no work, and i have potential to get a high score unlike methods at all. scaling is not that bad so i'll be fine.. my subjects are chosen purely for a score i don't care about anything else..
and if i do screw up taht badly i'm repeating next year so problem solved ><

[ninwa]

I thought a 45+ in further would require that you drop pretty much no marks in the exams because of how competitive it is? And unless methods this year is like it was in 2006, you can afford to drop quite a few to get 40...

[vexx]

I thought a 45+ in further would require that you drop pretty much no marks in the exams because of how competitive it is? And unless methods this year is like it was in 2006, you can afford to drop quite a few to get 40...

further is pretty much one mark per study score point, i've looked at the exams and they are really easy, ive spoke to so many people who smashed further with ease and it's the reasn i decided to do it. umm i think you need to do further to see how ridiculously easy it is. and people told me that getting a 40 in methods is not at all easy and requires so much work to achieve this.. maths is boring imnot wasting time on a 'maybe' for methods, when i know that by doing work for further i can do well..><

anyway this has gotten sidetracked.
for now i'll try and see if i can get exemption for most of the methods classes because i'll only do it as a prereq. i'll post here if i cant as that's another problem!

[azn_dj]

I am currently doing 5 subjects overall. Originally I wanted to drop methods as well, but its a prereq for my course (damnit).
But I was doing spesh as well, and I thought focusing on spesh would be easier.
But I would advise against dropping methods if anything. Further is a better choice to drop because if you make one silly mistake, you've lost a whole heap of marks plus scaled down.
But yeah - you lock out 99.95 straight away because you can't get a high enough aggregate

[darkphoenix]

I would keep it. You might need it later, especially if you are indecisive like me. Then you wont have any regrets later on.

[vexx]

I am currently doing 5 subjects overall. Originally I wanted to drop methods as well, but its a prereq for my course (damnit).
But I was doing spesh as well, and I thought focusing on spesh would be easier.
But I would advise against dropping methods if anything. Further is a better choice to drop because if you make one silly mistake, you've lost a whole heap of marks plus scaled down.
But yeah - you lock out 99.95 straight away because you can't get a high enough aggregate

Spesh without methods:o
and don't worry i'm not aiming for the high 99's so it's fine ^^

I would keep it. You might need it later, especially if you are indecisive like me. Then you wont have any regrets later on.

haha i hate indecisiveness. FINEEE, i'll keeeeep it argghhh (for not at least but not going to class for awhile xD)

[kyzoo]

Haha I was indecisive for weeks on dropping Chinese, actually I was thinking about dropping it before school year even started. Right now I don't really regret it, but nor do I feel proud for doing it. There are beneficial and detrimental consequences which cancel out to create a neutral feeling lol.

[darkphoenix]

Haha I was indecisive for weeks on dropping Chinese, actually I was thinking about dropping it before school year even started. Right now I don't really regret it, but nor do I feel proud for doing it. There are beneficial and detrimental consequences which cancel out to create a neutral feeling lol.

Lol why did you drop chinese? I feel like dropping it now..doing so bad in all the sacs

[kyzoo]

Haha I was indecisive for weeks on dropping Chinese, actually I was thinking about dropping it before school year even started. Right now I don't really regret it, but nor do I feel proud for doing it. There are beneficial and detrimental consequences which cancel out to create a neutral feeling lol.

Lol why did you drop chinese? I feel like dropping it now..doing so bad in all the sacs

1 ~ Almost certain 7th subject
2 ~ I was doing absolutely no work for it and was still pressed for time with my other subjects, so I really couldn't see how things would work out when I would have to prepare for Chinese exam

I didn't hate the subject however, it was probably one of my favourite subjects tbh.