Past experiences

[Mao]

I got 48 in ITSD with little to no effort apart from a week of solid revision before the exam.  And yes, it is true that lots of people doing IT subjects are bludgers, so it shouldn't be too hard to do alright.

lol WOW you must be a freak with IT if you didn't need to study.. cos it's not possible for someone who doesnt know much about comps to get a 48

well, (no offense caramel )
she also got a 48 in Info system (now called ITSD), not because she is a freak with IT, but because she knows what need to be done in order to achieve that score

competency in a VCE subject is not how competent you are in a particular field, but rather how well you can meet criterias.

[cara.mel]

* caramel didn't know what was inside a computer (apart from green bits and some fan that makes noise) until info systems.

Also, the only clever thing I could do aside from playing games etc was to use html to make my Neopets shop prettier. Never done programming before.

Having said that, I was expecting to do heaps better in methods than IS. IT are slack subjects, it's exactly the same in uni => pretty sure I'm going to drop it after this year because of that, I was hoping it would be better but it wasnt

[jess3254]

ENGLISH

English

I haven't done it since year 10, but I really advise against English (plain English), and still wonder why so many people do it. I find it pretty useless. I do English Language, and it's one of my favourite subjects. It's really interesting, and you start to apply concepts you've learnt to Real Life (for example, you really notice features of people's language, or doublespeak & euphemisms in advertisements, etc.) I've always found discussing themes in novels to be less than interesting, so I got into English Language at first possible opportunity! (plus, I have a thing for grammar).

But I digress. Methods seems to be a subject a lot of people take up so they can get scaled up. But then they end up doing worse than they would've done in another subject. From my experience with methods, you should only do it if you are good at maths, and like it (even to a small degree), and are willing to devote a lot of time to the homework.

Other than that? I'm not sure. I like all my subjects...

So, in conclusion, English sucks.

[Mao]

lol jess

anyways where's your english? i couldnt find it in your user-bar

[jess3254]

Haha I dropped it

Disclaimer: Some people really enjoy the subject, it all depends. I completely agree with what you said before (Mao). Everyone is different; there are various factors which influence the enjoyment of a subject. It's all relative. So yeah ignore me

[jsimmo]

I got 48 in ITSD with little to no effort apart from a week of solid revision before the exam.  And yes, it is true that lots of people doing IT subjects are bludgers, so it shouldn't be too hard to do alright.

lol WOW you must be a freak with IT if you didn't need to study.. cos it's not possible for someone who doesnt know much about comps to get a 48

well, (no offense caramel )
she also got a 48 in Info system (now called ITSD), not because she is a freak with IT, but because she knows what need to be done in order to achieve that score

competency in a VCE subject is not how competent you are in a particular field, but rather how well you can meet criterias.

I would have to strongly disagree with the last line.. if someone is incompetent within a specific field (IT or Maths for example) they can not just simply follow the 'criteria' and expect to achieve a 48 (or a relative good score for that matter) .. it just doesn't work like that IMO

[dcc]

I got 48 in ITSD with little to no effort apart from a week of solid revision before the exam.  And yes, it is true that lots of people doing IT subjects are bludgers, so it shouldn't be too hard to do alright.

lol WOW you must be a freak with IT if you didn't need to study.. cos it's not possible for someone who doesnt know much about comps to get a 48

A common misconception, I dislike IT quite alot .  The focus of the ITSD course was systems analysis with a TINY bit of programming involved.  I basically rote-learned my textbook to learn all the definitions and concepts which were required, and I know a bit of programming from previous experience (its just common sense, most of the time).

[jsimmo]

I got 48 in ITSD with little to no effort apart from a week of solid revision before the exam.  And yes, it is true that lots of people doing IT subjects are bludgers, so it shouldn't be too hard to do alright.

lol WOW you must be a freak with IT if you didn't need to study.. cos it's not possible for someone who doesnt know much about comps to get a 48

A common misconception, I dislike IT quite alot .  The focus of the ITSD course was systems analysis with a TINY bit of programming involved.  I basically rote-learned my textbook to learn all the definitions and concepts which were required, and I know a bit of programming from previous experience (its just common sense, most of the time).

Yeah, I don't know how the ITSD course works or what outcomes are involved, my school doesn't run the course so I have no idea of the workload - (if you need to put in effort or not, but the sounds of what people have said it is a fairly slack course).

[dcc]

I got 48 in ITSD with little to no effort apart from a week of solid revision before the exam.  And yes, it is true that lots of people doing IT subjects are bludgers, so it shouldn't be too hard to do alright.

lol WOW you must be a freak with IT if you didn't need to study.. cos it's not possible for someone who doesnt know much about comps to get a 48

A common misconception, I dislike IT quite alot .  The focus of the ITSD course was systems analysis with a TINY bit of programming involved.  I basically rote-learned my textbook to learn all the definitions and concepts which were required, and I know a bit of programming from previous experience (its just common sense, most of the time).

Yeah, I don't know how the ITSD course works or what outcomes are involved, my school doesn't run the course so I have no idea of the workload - (if you need to put in effort or not, but the sounds of what people have said it is a fairly slack course).

Well it helps that half the course is basically non-assessable (stuff like binary / ASM / hexadecimal / basically the second half of the book) but I suppose I was helped personally in that I was probably the only one in the class who actually did the work (as opposed to most of the grade who just played games when they were on the computer lol)

[cara.mel]

I got 48 in ITSD with little to no effort apart from a week of solid revision before the exam.  And yes, it is true that lots of people doing IT subjects are bludgers, so it shouldn't be too hard to do alright.

lol WOW you must be a freak with IT if you didn't need to study.. cos it's not possible for someone who doesnt know much about comps to get a 48

well, (no offense caramel )
she also got a 48 in Info system (now called ITSD), not because she is a freak with IT, but because she knows what need to be done in order to achieve that score

competency in a VCE subject is not how competent you are in a particular field, but rather how well you can meet criterias.

I would have to strongly disagree with the last line.. if someone is incompetent within a specific field (IT or Maths for example) they can not just simply follow the 'criteria' and expect to achieve a 48 (or a relative good score for that matter) .. it just doesn't work like that IMO

I'm a perfect example of being able to follow criteria and being lost when asked something outside said criteria. =D *stabs study designs*

[jsimmo]

I got 48 in ITSD with little to no effort apart from a week of solid revision before the exam.  And yes, it is true that lots of people doing IT subjects are bludgers, so it shouldn't be too hard to do alright.

lol WOW you must be a freak with IT if you didn't need to study.. cos it's not possible for someone who doesnt know much about comps to get a 48

well, (no offense caramel )
she also got a 48 in Info system (now called ITSD), not because she is a freak with IT, but because she knows what need to be done in order to achieve that score

competency in a VCE subject is not how competent you are in a particular field, but rather how well you can meet criterias.

I would have to strongly disagree with the last line.. if someone is incompetent within a specific field (IT or Maths for example) they can not just simply follow the 'criteria' and expect to achieve a 48 (or a relative good score for that matter) .. it just doesn't work like that IMO

I'm a perfect example of being able to follow criteria and being lost when asked something outside said criteria. =D *stabs study designs*

lol I dont understand what you mean? You simply just followed the 'criteria' without actually knowing what you were doing? (that doesn't seem right? lol) I think your an exception to what I am saying, I think your just naturally smart and could do anything and get a good mark lol idk

[Mao]

Haha I dropped it

Disclaimer: Some people really enjoy the subject, it all depends. I completely agree with what you said before (Mao). Everyone is different; there are various factors which influence the enjoyment of a subject. It's all relative. So yeah ignore me

what do you mean you "dropped" it, i thought it was compulsory!!!

[jess3254]

I'm doing literature instead?

I started out with English and Lit... then dropped English.

[Mao]

I'm doing literature instead?

I started out with English and Lit... then dropped English.

i just made myself look like an idiot.

maybe i am, but it was only ~10 o'clock...

*sighs* at self