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Re: Ideal number of VCE subjects in Year 12?
« Reply #45 on: January 23, 2011, 12:58:00 am »
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6 in year 12 (5+enhancement) and 2 in year 11 ;)
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Re: Ideal number of VCE subjects in Year 12?
« Reply #46 on: April 26, 2011, 11:32:07 pm »
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I'm doing two in year 11, and was planning on four in year 12, but I think I might be stepping that up to five haha. I just don't want to drop anything!
But at my school, Year 11 is generally far more full on than Year 12 because I'm doing six 1/2s on top of my 3/4, and then it's compulsory up to (including) Year 11 to do two extracurricular activities.

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Re: Ideal number of VCE subjects in Year 12?
« Reply #47 on: April 26, 2011, 11:38:01 pm »
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I would personally have liked something like 1 in year 10, 2 in year 11, and 4 in year 12.

My old school let us do 2 in year 10, 2 in year 11, 2 in year 12 if we wanted. (provided you were in the accelerated program)
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Re: Ideal number of VCE subjects in Year 12?
« Reply #48 on: April 27, 2011, 12:06:29 am »
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I would personally have liked something like 1 in year 10, 2 in year 11, and 4 in year 12.

My old school let us do 2 in year 10, 2 in year 11, 2 in year 12 if we wanted. (provided you were in the accelerated program)

Wow really? Everyone in my area thinks my school is full on because we can do Unit 1 Sociology in year 9, but it's spread over a year so it's not at all hard anyway.

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Re: Ideal number of VCE subjects in Year 12?
« Reply #49 on: April 27, 2011, 04:32:23 pm »
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6 in year 12 (5+enhancement) and 2 in year 11 ;)

wouldn't 5 + enhancement  in year 12 be too much =X

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Re: Ideal number of VCE subjects in Year 12?
« Reply #50 on: April 27, 2011, 04:43:56 pm »
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I reckon 2 in Year 11 and 4 in Year 12 would be great. MHS does not allow it (apart from external languages I think)



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Re: Ideal number of VCE subjects in Year 12?
« Reply #51 on: April 27, 2011, 09:22:37 pm »
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6 in year 12 (5+enhancement) and 2 in year 11 ;)

wouldn't 5 + enhancement  in year 12 be too much =X

I thought it was okay.. that said, I did do spesh+chem+physics+uni maths (and literature+english) so my workload may be lower than people who do history/languages etc.

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Re: Ideal number of VCE subjects in Year 12?
« Reply #52 on: April 27, 2011, 09:45:12 pm »
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6 in year 12 (5+enhancement) and 2 in year 11 ;)

wouldn't 5 + enhancement  in year 12 be too much =X

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Re: Ideal number of VCE subjects in Year 12?
« Reply #53 on: April 27, 2011, 10:26:33 pm »
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6 in year 12 (5+enhancement) and 2 in year 11 ;)

wouldn't 5 + enhancement  in year 12 be too much =X
6 in year 12 (5+enhancement) and 2 in year 11 ;)

wouldn't 5 + enhancement  in year 12 be too much =X

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Iunno, I think it varies person to person - I'm doing 5 + enhancement atm, and I'm not finding it too strenuous yet.
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Re: Ideal number of VCE subjects in Year 12?
« Reply #54 on: April 27, 2011, 10:45:38 pm »
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6 in year 12 (5+enhancement) and 2 in year 11 ;)

wouldn't 5 + enhancement  in year 12 be too much =X
6 in year 12 (5+enhancement) and 2 in year 11 ;)

wouldn't 5 + enhancement  in year 12 be too much =X

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Iunno, I think it varies person to person - I'm doing 5 + enhancement atm, and I'm not finding it too strenuous yet.

same here, I used to get "omg your workload is going to crush you" but to be honest I find my enhancement subject less of a workload + stress than VCE. I also treat it as "tution" for VCE Japanese as well and use it as reinforcement so it is a benefit for me
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Re: Ideal number of VCE subjects in Year 12?
« Reply #55 on: April 27, 2011, 10:53:06 pm »
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6 in year 12 (5+enhancement) and 2 in year 11 ;)

wouldn't 5 + enhancement  in year 12 be too much =X
6 in year 12 (5+enhancement) and 2 in year 11 ;)

wouldn't 5 + enhancement  in year 12 be too much =X

Doing 5 + enhancement, and regretting it now.

Iunno, I think it varies person to person - I'm doing 5 + enhancement atm, and I'm not finding it too strenuous yet.

same here, I used to get "omg your workload is going to crush you" but to be honest I find my enhancement subject less of a workload + stress than VCE. I also treat it as "tution" for VCE Japanese as well and use it as reinforcement so it is a benefit for me
Yeah, I would put in probably 1/2 (at most) the amount of work into my Enhancement than I would to my other subjects...
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Re: Ideal number of VCE subjects in Year 12?
« Reply #56 on: April 28, 2011, 09:25:02 am »
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Five did the trick for me with no 3/4s in year 11.

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Re: Ideal number of VCE subjects in Year 12?
« Reply #57 on: April 28, 2011, 04:00:50 pm »
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My school does from year 10 11 12, 0 2 5. Though if you did unit 1 bio in year 9, then sometimes 1 2 5. I managed to convince them to let me do 3 4+Enhancement.

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Re: Ideal number of VCE subjects in Year 12?
« Reply #58 on: April 28, 2011, 07:04:54 pm »
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Five did the trick for me with no 3/4s in year 11.

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Re: Ideal number of VCE subjects in Year 12?
« Reply #59 on: April 28, 2011, 07:09:00 pm »
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give me a shot at the same 6 3/4 subjects from year 7 to 12 and I should get it by the end
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