I am deciding between physics and bio. Biology has always appealed to me more but I don't like the fact that it is just memorising. At the moment I do maths ext 1 (accelerated) and people have been recommending I do physics to complement maths but I just find the concepts of physics hard.
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Physics or bio??? (1 Viewer)
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I did both, ended up dropping both for different reasons.
Biology was interesting to learn about, but you're right. There's a lot more content to memorise. I dropped BIO, but for my prelim exam prep I had about 15k words for 4 topics. But it was pretty fun as I had a good teacher for it. I dropped it as I started becoming lost as we got into digestive systems. Most of the time when you learn about a body part, cell or something there are different parts which is pure rote.
Physics was also great, I ended up dropping it because of the teacher, and plus I wasn't doing as well (even though I topped). Prelim was maths-based, but HSC becomes a bit more content based as it delves more into EM waves. In HSC and a bit of prelim you get an advantage i.e. vectors, and motion-based questions for mathematics.
Why don't you try both and drop which ever one you don't like at the end of the year?
Biology was interesting to learn about, but you're right. There's a lot more content to memorise. I dropped BIO, but for my prelim exam prep I had about 15k words for 4 topics. But it was pretty fun as I had a good teacher for it. I dropped it as I started becoming lost as we got into digestive systems. Most of the time when you learn about a body part, cell or something there are different parts which is pure rote.
Physics was also great, I ended up dropping it because of the teacher, and plus I wasn't doing as well (even though I topped). Prelim was maths-based, but HSC becomes a bit more content based as it delves more into EM waves. In HSC and a bit of prelim you get an advantage i.e. vectors, and motion-based questions for mathematics.
Why don't you try both and drop which ever one you don't like at the end of the year?