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pi:

--- Quote from: thushan on December 04, 2010, 09:47:54 pm ---Bio!

Excellent subject. If you study it in such a way that you are yearning for understanding than simply swallowing the textbook, it's extremely fascinating.

I'm not saying anything about Psych - I haven't done the subject.

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Did you find unit 3 or unit 4 more interesting? Personally, I found Unit 4 more interesting (but that is contradictory to most people who do bio)

Hutchoo:

--- Quote from: Rohitpi on December 04, 2010, 09:39:23 pm ---
--- Quote from: AzureBlue on December 04, 2010, 07:12:08 pm ---Biology is very relevant to life in general too. It's very interesting. :)

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+1

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I agree that biology is the best option. That's just my personal opinion though.

OP you should ask Russ :P

darren94:
in terms of difficulty, the new study design for psychology would eradicate any assumptions of 'bludginess' associated with psych. psych is becoming harder and more applicative than just rote, as shown in the growing trend in harder exams+new studdesign.
So bio if you want medicine!

TrueLight:
bio is definitely more relevant to med. although scored higher on psychology

Russ:

--- Quote ---OP you should ask Russ

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What do you think I'll say lol?

In terms of wanting to do medicine, biology is far and away more relevant. Anything relevant from psych is just a subset of biology (heck most of psychology is a subset of biology). That said, you definitely do not need to study biology at VCE to get into medicine or to do well in medicine.

The new course design for Psych is quite interesting (what I've seen of it at least) and is both interesting and broad. Biology will be harder and probably lacks the breadth of the psych course but has the major selling point of being fundamentally related to every day life. When you study genetic mutation, you'll get a new appreciation of what cancer is etc. Psychology can give you the same feeling, but it's usually in the areas of study that are just taken from the biology course.

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