My careers teacher told me that biomed was marked on a bell curve.
It's not. Individual subjects may or may not be adjusted to fit, but it's certainly nowhere near as stringent as VCE. 1st year, we were told multiple times that "we're not quota restricted, we can give out as many H1s as we want". Statistics gave out an extra 20 marks to everyone on the final exam...
2nd year, the results for Microbes/Infections/Responses and Principles of Genetics were skewed extremely heavily towards the H1 (30+%).
On the other side, I just got a 9.5 adjusted to a 9.25 for no reason that I could see (MY LAB REPORTS ARE ALWAYS PERFECT DAMMIT), so I assume that was fitting a standard normal curve
I know a student who got a 99.9, and does not know if he'll be able to hold onto a good enough GPA to keep his 'guaranteed' CSP place, and if he can't, why would I be able to?
Science won't be easier, just letting you know. Science might offer you more choice, but depending on my major choice I'll probably end up sharing a third of my total course with science kids. Biomed just cuts out the non health science stuff, it doesn't make it harder. You won't be able to manipulate your GPA that much from within science. If you're going to get 6.0 in science, you're going to get 6.0 in biomed since it's not that big a deal. Hell, I'd argue that the fact that biomed has 25 credit point subjects is a massive bonus - less contact hours, easier to study, less assessment etc.
Don't listen to all the kids complaining, everyone does that because we all think that our course is the hardest/best/most practical etc. Smash whatever course you get into and you will have no problems (although GAMSAT mark is way more important than your GPA at just about every school other than UoM)
I still completely disagree with your claim that it's a moronic pathway to medicine. It's just an alternate pathway.
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