In regards to the Medical Science Degree question, unless if you're planned to study like you've never studied before for 4 years (Including Hons) in order to gain a place for Graduate Entry Medicine, then it's much better to simply enrol in Bachelor of Science in UNSW or any University.
B Med Sci forces you take an array of courses, and by the end of 2nd year you'll have had a take for Pathology, Microbiology, Molecular level of your cells, anatomy of the human body and its tissues, and a dose of pharmaceutical courses. Then in 3rd year you focus on a specialisation such as Microbiology, then move into Honours based upon that specialisation.
In terms of HSC courses, really you only need English Adv and Maths 2 Unit Adv, and Chemistry. When you get into Uni, it's almost like repeating your whole of high school during the first year (i.e. Maths, Chemistry).
B Sci allows you much more flexibility in for example just completing Microbiology majors (Then you won't need to be forced into taking subjects like Anatomy which you most likely won't need unless if you're focusing on Anatomy as a major).
The best thing you should do is come along to Course Information sessions, currently UNSW has had ALOT of school students come over, if you're one of them, make full use of the people there and ask as much as possible.
@Tim:
That's awesome man! At least in your year you had free marks, in my year we knew nothing of what was to be asked, only that they covered all the lectures till the Mid-Session. I'll assume that you did a Theory-based examination.
Last year MICR2011 had a practical exam, and we basically got to draw conclusions based on tests we did, and also some streaking. Easy easy marks
You get like 20% of the Prac marks just for culturing properly
Haha survivor, John literally forced us to remember E Coli, he was like, if I ask any identification question, just remember how to isolate E coli based on Biochemical tests!
