SUSYKINS said:
ok so i did my hsc this year and i didnt do very well
D:.. hsc results were.. ok.. but uai turned out crap
i can still get into uni but the thing is.. its not such a good uni and its far away.. so i have three options
1. go to latrobe/acu .. study for a year then transfer to a closer, sydney based uni
2. go to tafe and study for 2 years then go to uni
3. repeat year 12
i would rather do the first... because atleast i can actually get into uni first
but my mum would rather me do the 3rd and have be repeat yr 12.. I dont really see the benefit of that.. and i really dont want to go through all the crap of year 12 all over again.
what would you guys do in my situation? give me some feedback/help?
thanks~
I was exactly in same situation as you. Had three options to choose from like yours:
1 Go to a university that is too far from where I live and has a crap reputation.
2 Go to Tafe like some of my friends did
3 Repeat year 12 like some of my other friends did
I'm glad that I chose the first option and I would recommend to anyone who is in same situation as me.
1. It's easy to transfer. Put a little effort into it and you'll most likely transfer unless you want to do something like Law or Medicine (courses that require 95+ UAI). The course that I wanted to get into required somewhere betwen 80-85 UAI and the 2nd preference I had required 88 UAI and I was offered both in the Main and Late round respectively and to be fair, the workload in the first year, I found it much easier than the HSC. (Though right now, I'd rather do HSC than what I'm going through lol). Plus, I guess traveling 2 hours from where I live to Uni gave me that extra motivation ^0^
2. My friends that went to Tafe never changed their attitude towards work. As much as I like them as a friend, it amazed me of how much free time they had whilst I struggled to cope with the amount of assignments and the difficulty of work that I was going through. Plus, they rarely went to class, they never paid any attention, the work is imo easier than what we go through in uni. They always say, they'll try hard next time but they never do. Plus, there are many 'bludgy' people in Tafe and being around with them = more bludging! lol So you'll probably find it hard to concentrate towards your work.
3. I'll put repeat year 12 as my last resort if I were you. nice5uy is right in a way that ask yourself this question - Do you really think that you would do better than last year? Do you really want to go through another stressful year of HSC? I've said before that I knew few friends that repeat HSC and most of them received roughly the same mark as their previous HSC thus didn't get into their course. I find that it's really hard to change your attitude completely to working extra hard especially if your friends who were accepted in uni is enjoying their social life at their respective uni and you are stuck alone repeat HSC. Plus, if you have Asian parents like me, it's...a disgrace to repeat lol (then again it's also a disgrace to go to a crap uni, but at least it sounds better.) Oh and I repeat - 1st year uni work is way easier than doing HSC. For HSC, you might be doing something completely non-related to what you want to do in Uni. In Uni / Tafe, at least you're doing something that is related to what you want to do in future.
4. Most importantly, go to whichever uni for the whole purpose of experiencing what uni is like so that you can prepare better when you get accepted into your desired uni. Plus, you might even get exempted from few units / subjects (this also applies to Tafe) so that you don't have to repeat them again.
There you go, so if I were you, I'll choose to go uni. If that's somehow not possible, go to Tafe and study (you can always transfer from Tafe too). Repeating HSC...eww...die!
