Would you repeat Year 12? [Poll]

[vexx]

Ohh that's another thing my careers counsellor said... even if i repeat year 12 and get 99.95

when monash are sorting through people for mbbs, they will take into account how many years it took to complete vce, and you will be penalised for having more than 2 years for vce. i guess repeating does have its disadvantages... can't be all positives

not at all. in fact it's almost encouraged, your chances slightly increase if you come back to interview with the motivation to try again by repeating the year, and you'd obviously have new experiences from the year to talk about.
they told me this, they like when people do it.

[slothpomba]

I'm just going to apply for medicine at monash, cant really do interstate. I'm not so worried about my umat as i am about my enter so theres part of my reason for possibly repeating.

I thought it sounded a bit silly monash would penalise you.

In all the spare time you have, you could also volunteer at a hospital or something. That'd look very good at the interview. (I'd imagine anyway.... at the very least it might help you decide wether medicine is for you. Can't hurt to give something back anyway and help out a fellow human being)

[Visionz]

Nah someone threw money at me so now if worst comes to worst I can just become a daytrader in the stock market. Got plenty $$$ to play with.

[happyhappyland]

Ohh that's another thing my careers counsellor said... even if i repeat year 12 and get 99.95

when monash are sorting through people for mbbs, they will take into account how many years it took to complete vce, and you will be penalised for having more than 2 years for vce. i guess repeating does have its disadvantages... can't be all positives

not at all. in fact it's almost encouraged, your chances slightly increase if you come back to interview with the motivation to try again by repeating the year, and you'd obviously have new experiences from the year to talk about.
they told me this, they like when people do it.

You can do non-standard entry into Monash MBBS by doing a year of uni and getting high grades (HDs) and attempt the UMAT again and the such. Or if you just missed out, you can take a GAP year to do something medically relavent in terms of voluntary work such as working for World Vision overseas or Red Cross. ANd then reapply.

[iffets12345]

I'd redo year 12. I'm 17 this year anyway.

and, I try not to think about MBBS. It's starting to get this extra elitist status from what it was before, which just makes me feel sad so I'm going to steer away. If I don't get into Pharmacy I might be devastated.

[vexx]

Ohh that's another thing my careers counsellor said... even if i repeat year 12 and get 99.95

when monash are sorting through people for mbbs, they will take into account how many years it took to complete vce, and you will be penalised for having more than 2 years for vce. i guess repeating does have its disadvantages... can't be all positives

not at all. in fact it's almost encouraged, your chances slightly increase if you come back to interview with the motivation to try again by repeating the year, and you'd obviously have new experiences from the year to talk about.
they told me this, they like when people do it.

You can do non-standard entry into Monash MBBS by doing a year of uni and getting high grades (HDs) and attempt the UMAT again and the such. Or if you just missed out, you can take a GAP year to do something medically relavent in terms of voluntary work such as working for World Vision overseas or Red Cross. ANd then reapply.

no you cannot. if you undertake any tertiary study, even if it is a single unit or TAFE IV+, then you are not allowed to apply to monash anymore.

[Eriny]

No no no, never ever, oh my goodness no, I can't believe anyone considers this.

Why? Because it's really pointless! If it turns out that you aren't great at VCE, that doesn't mean you won't be good at university. You can transfer into courses if you perform well somewhere else. Additionally, so so so many people enter university thinking they know what they want to do, but they actually get a better idea of what they like if they take some time out to study at a higher level. There's no point spending an extra year to get into X course, when there's no guarantee that a) you'll get into X course or b) if you did get into X course you'd want to stay there. And there are so many more reasons too like:
- actually getting to study something you're interested in.
- studying something new and not doing the same things over again and not wasting a year 'learning' things that you just learned last year.
- having a guaranteed option in studying something else rather than using another year to essentially be unsure about where you'll be (as if your entire high school life wasn't enough)
- Not having to wake up for 9am classes every damn morning.
- Being able to put 'high school graduate' on your CV.
- Because whatever mark you get won't be that bad anyway, because you need to learn as early as possible to get over your perfectionism in order to cope with the basic ups and downs of life.
- To learn that it's more than grades, it's what you actually learn and get out of your time. Grades don't give you a full picture of what you achieved.
- Because there is so much more to life than VC freaking E.
- Because high school kind of sucks generally.

And probably more. I know it probably sounds a bit rich coming from someone who got into their first preference, but seriously. I think this is the worst idea ever. A good idea is to not have regression as part of your life.

[darkphoenix]

I wouldn't want to do it again, too much pressure and stress. Couldn't bare to go through another year.

You can always try and transfer in Uni.

[iffets12345]

lol Eriny, I'm with you, except all my other options don't stray too far ATAR wise from the first, like the most general degree of Biomed is like 97.9 at UoM. So really, if the ATAR is low, high chances i can't get most of my preferences. And I really don't like the look of other courses.

[vexx]

No no no, never ever, oh my goodness no, I can't believe anyone considers this.

Why? Because it's really pointless! If it turns out that you aren't great at VCE, that doesn't mean you won't be good at university. You can transfer into courses if you perform well somewhere else. Additionally, so so so many people enter university thinking they know what they want to do, but they actually get a better idea of what they like if they take some time out to study at a higher level. There's no point spending an extra year to get into X course, when there's no guarantee that a) you'll get into X course or b) if you did get into X course you'd want to stay there. And there are so many more reasons too like:
- actually getting to study something you're interested in.
- studying something new and not doing the same things over again and not wasting a year 'learning' things that you just learned last year.
- having a guaranteed option in studying something else rather than using another year to essentially be unsure about where you'll be (as if your entire high school life wasn't enough)
- Not having to wake up for 9am classes every damn morning.
- Being able to put 'high school graduate' on your CV.
- Because whatever mark you get won't be that bad anyway, because you need to learn as early as possible to get over your perfectionism in order to cope with the basic ups and downs of life.
- To learn that it's more than grades, it's what you actually learn and get out of your time. Grades don't give you a full picture of what you achieved.
- Because there is so much more to life than VC freaking E.
- Because high school kind of sucks generally.

And probably more. I know it probably sounds a bit rich coming from someone who got into their first preference, but seriously. I think this is the worst idea ever. A good idea is to not have regression as part of your life.

This doesn't apply to everyone, example medicine:
-if you are serious about wanting to do medicine, transfers are unrealistic, plus it rules out Monash and makes UNSW very difficult (the two i, and others, most want to go to)
-there is no high school anymore, we have graduated, but some chose to do extra subjects at TAFE, hence still 'high school graduate' just extended year 12 studies
-can still do heaps of things interested in~
-only having to wake up some days for 'school' unlike some who will have everyday for uni (if doing biomed, or high sciency contact hours) instead of doing a few vce subjects and being casual having more time to study for things like UMAT during the day espesh with only 2 subjects (if this many)
-MOST IMPORTANTLY INCREASES CHANCE OF MEDICINE
- but true, you may waste a year potentially, but only do this if you are SURE you can do better and have a good chance of getting in (not great, but good.. )

etc..


I'm not sure why anyone would repeat and stay at high school, i can imagine most would do only a couple of subjects and have the above advantages.

[GerrySly]

If you want Med that bad and you get a shit score why not just go for graduate medicine? 3 year degree + 4 year MBBS = 7 years yeah? Throw in some volunteering, preparing for GAMSAT, work over those three years, what's so bad about that?

[taiga]

Yeah man got a 49 in one subject, better repeat :S

[Gloamglozer]

I'd repeat year 12 any day despite all the SACs and all the pressure.  Looking back on it, year 12 was the best year of my life.

[vexx]

If you want Med that bad and you get a shit score why not just go for graduate medicine? 3 year degree + 4 year MBBS = 7 years yeah? Throw in some volunteering, preparing for GAMSAT, work over those three years, what's so bad about that?

it's risky to do that as graduate medicine is so effing competitive, and it could be difficult to maintain a high GPA and then study hard for GAMSAT when i could do really bad (cannot write essays)
i'll most likely get into some med school if i do it next year (90% sure i'll get into UQ) and so if i decide to go there then all is good:)

I'd repeat year 12 any day despite all the SACs and all the pressure.  Looking back on it, year 12 was the best year of my life.

aww. that's so good you loved it so much~

[Gloamglozer]

I'd repeat year 12 any day despite all the SACs and all the pressure.  Looking back on it, year 12 was the best year of my life.

aww. that's so good you loved it so much~

I was being serious.  Uni isn't all that exciting when you're there from 9:00-6:15.