Subject Selection Year 11 and 12 (2 Viewers)

[Razor1231]

I am planning on doing these subject next year (Year 11):

English Advanced 2 unit
Maths 3 unit
Society and Culture 2 unit
Legal Studies 2 unit
Studies of Religion 2 unit
Ancient History 2 unit or Physics 2 unit

I don't know if I should pick ancient or physics. I am interested in Ancient slightly more but I feel like I would do better at Physics. At the moment I get A's in Science without trying and am in the accelerated maths course. I am taking Society and Culture and Legal because I want to do Social Science in uni. I am also going to try and get into Extention 2 Maths in year 12.

What do you guys think would be good?
Also, anything I should know about any of the subjects mentioned?

 

[blackbird_14]

I am planning on doing these subject next year (Year 11):

English Advanced 2 unit
Maths 3 unit
Society and Culture 2 unit
Legal Studies 2 unit
Studies of Religion 2 unit
Ancient History 2 unit or Physics 2 unit

I don't know if I should pick ancient or physics. I am interested in Ancient slightly more but I feel like I would do better at Physics. At the moment I get A's in Science without trying and am in the accelerated maths course. I am taking Society and Culture and Legal because I want to do Social Science in uni. I am also going to try and get into Extention 2 Maths in year 12.

What do you guys think would be good?
Also, anything I should know about any of the subjects mentioned?

SAC (Society and Culture) has a major project attached to it in Year 12- and believe me projects are the most annoying assessment ever- because without good time management of your project, you'll be rushing everything in the last two weeks of school.

Ancient History requires a lot of memorisation of facts. So if you're not good at memorising dates and events and people's names reconsider.

Physics requires a degree of maths, although apparently it's a lot more history or something... Idk I'm sure someone else will spill the beans.

 

[DatAtarLyfe]

Physics is all about application of theoretical knowledge to the physical world. It's quite a hands-on (in terms of reality and practicality) subject and requires you to be able to apply concepts to different scenarios, rather than straight up rote-learning and regurgitating it all during an exam. The maths difficulty is not very high, it only requires you to plug numbers into formulas and rearrange equations. Your teacher may look at rate of change in moving about in which you wold need atleast Advanced Maths, but that's about as difficult as it gets.
In terms of skills, if your more of a rote-learner and likes to study a lot more theoretical knowledge, do Ancient.
Hence if your practical, hands-on person, then physics is the way to go

 

[WrittenLoveLetters]

You don't need to be that good at maths to do high school physics, as an average 3U, you only need basic 2U maths (in Year 11 anyways)

I'm not going to say jack shit about Society & Culture before I throw someone down LOL

And with what DAL said, I do pretty well in Physics by having no idea what is going on and just rote learning.

 

[DatAtarLyfe]

You don't need to be that good at maths to do high school physics, as an average 3U, you only need basic 2U maths (in Year 11 anyways)

I'm not going to say jack shit about Society & Culture before I throw someone down LOL

And with what DAL said, I do pretty well in Physics by having no idea what is going on and just rote learning.

Your special

 

[WrittenLoveLetters]

Your special

I whip most of the Engineering kids and I would say that our school isn't bad in producing high 90s who have a passion for Engineering

I'm special o 3o/!

 

[DatAtarLyfe]

I whip most of the Engineering kids and I would say that our school isn't bad in producing high 90s who have a passion for Engineering

I'm special o 3o/!

wait what does engineering have to do with this?

 

[Steff07]

Hi everyone,
I need some advice when coming into year 12 when considering what subjects I should drop and take up. First of all, I would like to know if you think that science extension is a subject that is worth taking up or of it will cause me unnecessary stress. I am currently doing well in science and placing first in Chemistry and Biology.

My subjects right now in year 11 include:
- Advanced maths
- Advanced English
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Studies of religion 2
- Pdhpe

If I were to pick up a science extension which ones would you recommend I drop? I know the easy option would be to drop to one unit of SOR but I am currently really enjoying the subject and it is a requirement to do at least one unit of religion at my school. I also enjoy all of my other subjects and don't dislike any of them.

As for chemistry, I am finding the content quite hard but in my recent in-depth study, I obtained full marks. So I'm not sure if it would be worth dropping as it is the biggest stress in my life but also weighs out with my best-performing subject. And then also if I were to drop chemistry I would only be left with biology as a science, lowering the difficulty of my overall subjects.

Is it stupid to do 13 units and just keep them all?????

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Neogotmyback]

Hi everyone,
I need some advice when coming into year 12 when considering what subjects I should drop and take up. First of all, I would like to know if you think that science extension is a subject that is worth taking up or of it will cause me unnecessary stress. I am currently doing well in science and placing first in Chemistry and Biology.

My subjects right now in year 11 include:
- Advanced maths
- Advanced English
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Studies of religion 2
- Pdhpe

If I were to pick up a science extension which ones would you recommend I drop? I know the easy option would be to drop to one unit of SOR but I am currently really enjoying the subject and it is a requirement to do at least one unit of religion at my school. I also enjoy all of my other subjects and don't dislike any of them.

As for chemistry, I am finding the content quite hard but in my recent in-depth study, I obtained full marks. So I'm not sure if it would be worth dropping as it is the biggest stress in my life but also weighs out with my best-performing subject. And then also if I were to drop chemistry I would only be left with biology as a science, lowering the difficulty of my overall subjects.

Is it stupid to do 13 units and just keep them all?????

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Firstly, you might get more replies if you post this on the prelim forum.
Ok, so I would only recommend science extension if you are passionate about science and are interested in self led investigation. If you dislike chem just drop it, you won't have the motivation to study in the hsc if you don't like it (however, keep in mind it might be helpful in certain university fields).
Additionally, I did 2unit religion and dropped down to 1unit non-atar religion. It was totally worth it for me and is the classwork is equivalent of year 8 religion at my school, BUT if you really enjoy 2u religion, just keep it.
Good luck.