Hardest mainstream VCE subjects? (POLL)

[nacho]

I find humanities subjects harder to cope with, like Legal.. it just has monstrous slabs of information which you must absorb.. but then again it is quite interesting

[Menang]

I have to agree with the people saying Revs; it is really underrated. There's just so much to remember, and like someone said before (I think on page 1), there are so many different events but in the exam you only get tested on 2 or 3. That means you have to know each event really, really well to be able to write on it.

That said, the nature of this subject is very chronological, which is immensely helpful in remembering things.

I personally find literature the hardest so far this year; it's a subject (imo) that really requires depth of thought and subtle, detailed analysis and it's a lot of work to build up those skills.

[Dr.Lecter]

50+ significant events to learn

2-3 events chosen at random on the exam

[Mint]

Chinese for sure. and probably any other language
The oral exam was a killer

[werdna]

Revs - so complex, full of information and yeah.. so much to absorb.

Latin's a killer too.

[Streaker]

Couldn't you just look at a scaling report for the answer to this question? Although I must say I found Chemistry ridiculously difficult to understand, I hated it so much.

[Menang]

Couldn't you just look at a scaling report for the answer to this question? Although I must say I found Chemistry ridiculously difficult to understand, I hated it so much.

I thought a scaling report only reflects the cohort, not the actual subject itself?
(If a whole bunch of really smart kids did an easy subject, wouldn't the scaling be higher than if a bunch of not-so-smart kids did a hard subject?)
I'm not 100% sure, so someone can confirm/enlighten.

[Streaker]

Couldn't you just look at a scaling report for the answer to this question? Although I must say I found Chemistry ridiculously difficult to understand, I hated it so much.

I thought a scaling report only reflects the cohort, not the actual subject itself?
(If a whole bunch of really smart kids did an easy subject, wouldn't the scaling be higher than if a bunch of not-so-smart kids did a hard subject?)
I'm not 100% sure, so someone can confirm/enlighten.

I'm pretty sure you're correct but your hypothetical isn't exactly the reality of VCE (unfortunately) haha

[Mint]

Couldn't you just look at a scaling report for the answer to this question? Although I must say I found Chemistry ridiculously difficult to understand, I hated it so much.

I thought a scaling report only reflects the cohort, not the actual subject itself?
(If a whole bunch of really smart kids did an easy subject, wouldn't the scaling be higher than if a bunch of not-so-smart kids did a hard subject?)
I'm not 100% sure, so someone can confirm/enlighten.

Yeah, I think that's how it works. Except for languages, they scale higher to encourage more people to learn them.

[Menang]

Couldn't you just look at a scaling report for the answer to this question? Although I must say I found Chemistry ridiculously difficult to understand, I hated it so much.

I thought a scaling report only reflects the cohort, not the actual subject itself?
(If a whole bunch of really smart kids did an easy subject, wouldn't the scaling be higher than if a bunch of not-so-smart kids did a hard subject?)
I'm not 100% sure, so someone can confirm/enlighten.

Yeah, I think that's how it works. Except for languages, they scale higher to encourage more people to learn them.

LOTEs get a scale-up of 5 points at the mean.

I'm just annoyed I didn't get a scale up for Indo.

[Streaker]

LOTEs get a scale-up of 5 points at the mean.

Not all of them surely? I've seen a few where they scale down, stay the same or scale up by only 1.

[m@tty]

^they get 5 points added at the mean and this affects all scores (except 50 in some cases... and perhaps zero haha)

And ironically, I found chem one of my easiest o.O

[millerpede5165]

+1 for History Revs. I found english most daunting and stressful, but nowhere near as hard as revolutions.

[Menang]

LOTEs get a scale-up of 5 points at the mean.

Not all of them surely? I've seen a few where they scale down, stay the same or scale up by only 1.

Hmmm... I thought all LOTEs had to do that, since it was a government policy to encourage learning a foreign language? :O

[Greatness]

Bio is definitely a harder subject to do well in, well imo
Lotes are also quite difficult.