Predict me an eng SS :D

[98.40_for_sure]

Your school lets you do UMEP Maths along with another 5 subjects? That's a pretty big load with those subjects

[AzureBlue]

Well, my school makes us do 5 subjects in year 12 and UMEP is after school so that fits in fine. Of course, they prefer 4 + UMEP but 5 is fine if you can handle it. I might move one of the subjects to year 11 (ie. Chinese) or do biology next year. I'm so bad at VCE subject selection... tertiary course selection is so much easier lol

[98.40_for_sure]

Hahah i'm doing 4 subjects now, just dropped IT: Software development
And finding it hard to manage time, probably because i spend 10 hours a day reading about uni courses and banging my head over what i wanna do
You did that already, lucky you haha

[tram]

Well, my school makes us do 5 subjects in year 12 and UMEP is after school so that fits in fine. Of course, they prefer 4 + UMEP but 5 is fine if you can handle it. I might move one of the subjects to year 11 (ie. Chinese) or do biology next year. I'm so bad at VCE subject selection... tertiary course selection is so much easier lol

ummm sif ur school make you do five subjects?? lol at me getting awa with three real ones

yea, srsly, move one to year 11, only doing emthods isn;t gonna make ur method score any better

lol, sif tertiary course selection is any easier??? I would argue it's MUCH harder cos you have to take a definite step into what you wanna do, whereas VCE you can do science subjects, history subjects and politics subjects all at the same time without commiting to any particualar line...

having said that you have a *shite* load of time to decide lol

Hahah i'm doing 4 subjects now, just dropped IT: Software development
And finding it hard to manage time, probably because i spend 10 hours a day reading about uni courses and banging my head over what i wanna do
You did that already, lucky you haha

LOL....yup i totes spent a LOT of time wasting it away on sites like vn/fb lol and get my ass kicked by ppl doing 6 3/4s...w....t....f.....

[98.40_for_sure]

Hahahah, yeah sit there on fb not doing anything
At least on VN its 'educational'

[98.40_for_sure]

*blinks* You're... azure?

[98.40_for_sure]

What are you talking about? Stop talking chinese!

[AzureBlue]

yea, srsly, move one to year 11, only doing emthods isn;t gonna make ur method score any better

Lol believe it or not, there is actually an advantage to doing 1 in year 11 and 6 in year 12.
Inevitably, I concede that year 12 will be indeed hard. However, doing 1 in year 11 means that you have the time to actually work at your 1/2s which provide a very solid foundation for those subjects in year 12. This means that those subjects in year 12 won't be such a struggle because you're very familiar with the concepts etc. In addition to this, your accelerated subject kind of acts as a trial for your VCE 3/4s - in year 12, you'll be more experienced with time management and more used to all these SACs and stuff...

I also think, as a progressive subject (as all languages can be built upon through years of practice) I would get a better study score doing it in year 12, but preparing most of the materials in year 11 as general convo/detailed study etc... take a long time.

An exception to this is if you're going to compete at one of the international science olympiads in year 12, I would strongly advise to accelerate around 2-3 subjects. I can't imagine how hard it would be to do so much...

I recall half a year ago, I was intending to do three 3/4s next year. I was actually very obstinate to change this, but after consulting around 300 people lol, I was convinced that that was actually a bad idea. So all in all, I'm against acceleration of too many subjects. And yes, there exist people who have gotten perfect VCE scores with 6 subjects in year 12.

[AzureBlue]

Azure: You've always been indecisive over Phys/Bio but why not Chem? (I was so annoyed whether to do Bio or Phys because Phys helps more with Spesh (and vice versa) but not with Bio but in the end, I took neither )
Maybe you could do Phys and Bio if that solves your problem hahah!

Yeah, that could. I am actually also indecisive about chem. Maybe I'm just indecisive in general. As a principle, I shall pick two subjects out of bio/phys/chem. (Chem has great scaling though! lol and it's a pretty good subject too)

[AzureBlue]

Chem is advisable to take because it's often a pre-req subj but I'll just do it because I like it more than Bio/Phys. That's about it.
And all this talk about scaling again. Maybe I'll stop learning music in Year 12 since it's so tough to get high 40's for music and not do VCE Music at all. >< (Though yes I guess it's my interest but if I don't do well, it'll probably be my 6th/7th subject and it's practices are time consuming.) IIRC, < 20 people got >45 for Music last year.)

That's just because not many people take music - the proportions are still the same. Though yes, it does make the subject less 'solid' in terms of study scores, but shouldn't bring about too much of a disadvantage. All this talk about scaling, but bottom line is, do what you like. If you do something just for the scaling, and hate it, then you're going to do bad... If you love it, and it scales, then double bonus Which reminds me, I have to start enjoying learning chinese. Wonder how that's going to happen. Though it will help me in my career knowing another language...

[taiga]

tl;dr

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edit: actually read it 35-38

[iffets12345]

yea, srsly, move one to year 11, only doing emthods isn;t gonna make ur method score any better

And yes, there exist people who have gotten perfect VCE scores with 6 subjects in year 12.

Actually, no. Derrick Ha and James Lu both got a high 40s for a subject (Derrick Ha- i think it was English, James Lu- Literature).
So I don't know who you're talking about lol.
And you don't need 6 50s to be godly. Getting 45+s is good enough for the real world
=].

Ac

[AzureBlue]

^ Hahah yeah, and then the next question would be, to do 1 or 2 music subjects? And if so, which one?
Would just like to mention that m@tty is doing 8 subjects by the way (check out his cool sig)

VCE Music Performance. Probably because I have no idea what VCE Music Styles is and I know no one that has done it... but then again, that's not a very substantiated reason is it? Just do some research of both and ask some people who have done it and choose the one you think you'll enjoy better and be better at.

[AzureBlue]

yea, srsly, move one to year 11, only doing emthods isn;t gonna make ur method score any better

And yes, there exist people who have gotten perfect VCE scores with 6 subjects in year 12.

Actually, no. Derrick Ha and James Lu both got a high 40s for a subject (Derrick Ha- i think it was English, James Lu- Literature).
Ac

Sorry, let me rephrase that perfect VCE score = 99.95; apologies for the confusion.

[miss_academia]

I'm ranked first in my year for English, and have lost eight marks total in Unit 3; do I still have a chance for a 50?