Specialist maths vs. Further maths

[tram]

i'd say spesh as you'll find you have a lot of free time doing only 4 subjects, not to mention one of them is a uni subject
you seem capable of doing well in spesh maths based on your methods score. spesh is a lot more interesting than further and poses a challenge. the content is quite interesting imo and if you are math-capable go for it

and if you can't decide, you could always take the best of both worlds and do both! (let me tell you now that further is ridiculously easy and very manageable as a fifth subject)

this actually might be a good compromise, worst case scenario you could just stop trying for one subject

[Streaker]

It really depends on whether you think you can get a higher scaled spesh score or higher raw further score. To be honest, further is much easier and consumes less time in year 12 than spesh so it might be a better option. It is, however, highly competitive and dropping something like 5 marks across the exams is something like losing 3-4 study score points. For spesh it's not that bad because of the scaling but remember that if you get 45+ in Further then your score tends to remain the same (i.e. it doesn't go down).