im considering doing latin extension or physics. ive been doing fine in latin up until starting translating cicero where the difficulty level increased suddenly. im not sure if im able to do well in latin extension considering im struggling a bit and recently ive lost a bit of confidence in my english because the marks were lower than i expected. im rank 3 for latin in a pretty strong group of students so the scaling would be pretty good but idk.... would it be safer to do physics ? i can perform more consistently in prelim phys.
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Assuming that there are no restrictions that may be placed by your school on the maximum number of units that you can have, it would be good to take both Latin Extension and Physics. This would essentially allow you to make a more informed decision regarding the subject that you should keep because you will be able to compare your performance in each, instead of picking one over the other from the start and potentially ending up wondering whether you would have performed favourably in the other subject had you taken it. After dropping a subject, it will no longer count towards your HSC results or your ATAR, which can provide relief if your performance does not end up being at the standard that you were hoping (this applies more to Latin Extension).
On the other hand, if you cannot or do not want to take both Latin Extension and Physics, perhaps you should keep Physics. From your post, it seems that your performance potential in Physics is greater than in Latin Extension. At the same time, you can allocate additional study time towards Latin Continuers (allowing you to focus on addressing your areas of improvement), instead of increasing your workload by taking Latin Extension and reducing the study time available for Latin Continuers.
I hope this helps!
On the other hand, if you cannot or do not want to take both Latin Extension and Physics, perhaps you should keep Physics. From your post, it seems that your performance potential in Physics is greater than in Latin Extension. At the same time, you can allocate additional study time towards Latin Continuers (allowing you to focus on addressing your areas of improvement), instead of increasing your workload by taking Latin Extension and reducing the study time available for Latin Continuers.
I hope this helps!
im just indecisive because the scaling in latin extension is really good and latin extension is supposedly easier than latin continuers whereas physics scaling is quite bad and i don't know if i can perform as well in the hsc syllabus as i can in preliminary
Your decision should ideally not be fully based on the scaling of a subject. Instead, you should consider the subject that you can perform well in. This is because the better your performance is, the less you will be affected by scaling. On the other hand, unfavourable performance in a subject will not result in a good contribution to your ATAR, even if it is a high-scaling subject.