Studio arts or biology?

[juliamilone]

Hi I'm currently in Year 10

The subjects I've selected so far are

English
Chemistry
Japanese
Methods
and PE units 3 +4
I have to hand in my form tomorrow for my final selection and I'm stressing out.

I'm either going to do studio arts or biology

But I need help deciding!

Here is a little info on my thoughts at the moment:
Studio Arts
-Good prac work usually receive high A+s
-Written work has improved a lot from a B+…recent marks were 94% and 100% however all my class has improved :S so I don't know if I really did improve or she is just marking easier hm..
-I already do art in my spare time especially when I'm stressed I will get paper and just sketch.
-I have been drawing people since I was little, it was my main hobby
-I love art
-Bad side is I find researching art periods and analysing art a little boring
-Teacher is good
-But I’m worried I’ll stress out in VCE and be too scared to actually do anything
-Not looking forward to learning all the art words

Biology
-Would help me with chemistry according to some year 12s at my school
-I think it may help with PE or vice versa too
-I have been "naturally" interested in biology ever since I started science in year 7
-I'm good with memorising-apparently there is alot of memory work involved
-Usually receive 98-100%
-Bad thing is the teacher makes me want to jump off a cliff and I've had her every year for science
-Also lots of year 11s hate biology now and I’m worried that will be me



Thanks for reading!


Julia

[98.40_for_sure]

From your description, it seems like you would enjoy art more, and that your main reason for doing bio is that it will compliment other subjects.
Just from my own experience, the guys that did both chem and bio, tended to drift off into bio world when answering chem questions...
I dropped bio after year 11 because it was a LOT of work. Pretty heavy and time consuming if you do it in year 12.
Deciding based on uni prereqs isn't an issue since both aren't major reqs for any of the courses i've seen (may be wrong)

Good luck with whatever you decide.

[vexx]

I did year 11 biology, and 3/4 PE and chem.
I can tell you that year 11 biology does not help pretty much at all with either of these.
3/4 Biology definitely has it's overlap with both of these at a 3/4 level, but at year 11, don't bother.
You can easily pick up bio 3/4 if you change your mind, otherwise do something more fun, and not what compliments bests.

Up to you though.

[ninwa]

I was in your position, except replace art with music. I loved the performing and practical work, absolutely despised theory. But I think if you really love art, the history/analysing stuff won't be too bad. I was more than willing to do the boring theory stuff because I knew it meant I got to do the practical stuff too. I also freaked out at first since it was my first taste of VCE, but after a while you get used to it, you'll get into the flow of things, you might even forget that it's VCE and just enjoy the process of creating something beautiful.

Also I see you're doing at least 3 "tough" subjects - chem/methods/Japanese - I'm not saying that art is easy, but since you clearly love it, it might be a good break from the maths/sciency stuff. It's good to have subjects from a variety of areas IMO.

Biology 3/4 does overlap a tiny bit with chemistry 3/4 but I never felt it gave me any advantage whatsoever. And anyway that's a long way off - you can always pick up 3/4 biology without 1/2.

[iffets12345]

You could use your memorising and apply it to the theory in art
As long as you're aware of how important theory is then I think you'll be fine. Most art kids don't do well not cause of talent but cause they're lazy with theory and bum out on the written which is where all the difference is, so I've heard. But you seem mature and understand this even though you claim to "not be interested in art periods and analysing", you'll probably pull yourself through

[juliamilone]

Dont want to learn art words? Doesnt Bio have tonnes of new words?

Yeah but I'm somehow motivated to learn biology terms rather than weird art words like sgraffito
anyway I'm going to have to put up with it maybe I can teach myself to like the theory part of art

I was in your position, except replace art with music. I loved the performing and practical work, absolutely despised theory. But I think if you really love art, the history/analysing stuff won't be too bad. I was more than willing to do the boring theory stuff because I knew it meant I got to do the practical stuff too. I also freaked out at first since it was my first taste of VCE, but after a while you get used to it, you'll get into the flow of things, you might even forget that it's VCE and just enjoy the process of creating something beautiful.

Also I see you're doing at least 3 "tough" subjects - chem/methods/Japanese - I'm not saying that art is easy, but since you clearly love it, it might be a good break from the maths/sciency stuff. It's good to have subjects from a variety of areas IMO.

Biology 3/4 does overlap a tiny bit with chemistry 3/4 but I never felt it gave me any advantage whatsoever. And anyway that's a long way off - you can always pick up 3/4 biology without 1/2.

Thanks so much for your answer that really has made me feel better about my selection. I ended up selecting studio arts. But apparently art is far from easy, the girls at my school spend all their time in the art room because its not something you can do fast, you need to take your time. Also apparently there are so many art words to learn

I did year 11 biology, and 3/4 PE and chem.
I can tell you that year 11 biology does not help pretty much at all with either of these.
3/4 Biology definitely has it's overlap with both of these at a 3/4 level, but at year 11, don't bother.
You can easily pick up bio 3/4 if you change your mind, otherwise do something more fun, and not what compliments bests.

Up to you though.

Yeah I realised I was choosing biology because it complimented my other subjects.

From your description, it seems like you would enjoy art more, and that your main reason for doing bio is that it will compliment other subjects.
Just from my own experience, the guys that did both chem and bio, tended to drift off into bio world when answering chem questions...
I dropped bio after year 11 because it was a LOT of work. Pretty heavy and time consuming if you do it in year 12.
Deciding based on uni prereqs isn't an issue since both aren't major reqs for any of the courses i've seen (may be wrong)

Good luck with whatever you decide.

Thankyou for your answer yours was the only one I actually got to read before handing in my form,
yeah I do enjoy studio art more in some ways
and this actually scared me "tended to drift off into bio world when answering chem questions..." because I think I might lose focus on chemistry if I have two sciences because of bio's work load.
So I chose studio arts in the end.