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subject selection regrets.. (2 Viewers)

bassistx

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advanced sam said:
i think i would have done geography
lol you prob would've had to do it through distance-ed tho.. nobody would choose it even if your school offered it
 

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cs01001 said:
Had I knew such a big workload was involved with Modern, I would not have chosen it at all. :(
the work load in modern is not that big time management is the key and it wont be as hard thats what i found and modern is easy
 

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Currently i do:
Standard english
General maths
PD/H/PE
Chemistry
Hospitality

If i could go back i would do:
Standard english
Advanced maths
Ext. 1 & 2 maths
PD/H/PE
Business
Hospitality

Don't know why i let anyone talk me into not doing advanced and extension maths or how i let my year 10 science teacher convince me i could do chemistry and physics. lucky for me i got to drop physics but chem is horrible
 

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I currently do:

Maths Ext 1
English Adv
Legal
Society and Culture
French Beginners

I reeaalllly wish i'd done modern history. But at the time of choosing, it clashed with legal .I wish i'd replaced society and culture with Modern History , EXCEPT the stupid school wouldn't have let me, as, like i said, it clashed with legal. But now that i think about, i wish i had choosen Modern History over Legal .... i remember battling over that decision...god don't know why Legal came out on top :mad:
 

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I wish I hadn't chosen economics... i'd probably swap it with geography

and I wish i didn't have to do english at all. i hate that its compulsory
 

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economics for one of the histories

economics is the most boring subject ever
 

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I wish I had forced my school to run Modern History so I could have done it instead of ancient.
 

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if i could choose again, it would be:

economics
legal studies
business studies
4u maths
adv english

either that or just 3 units of maths and 3 units of english
 

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I wished I chose Physics and Economics instead of IPT. I wished I had free time to do music. :((
 

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I thought the same about Visual Arts, but I've changed my mind.
The state average is 85, I think.
I reckon VA is one of the most easy subjects. You just work on your BoW (which your teacher guides you through so you get max marks) and you just memorise the same crap - "the use of blah colour has blah effect". Plus in the exam they give you so many questions to choose from. In the prelim, we got to choose from like 10 questions for the extended response stuff.
Seriously, it's pretty easy. I regret considering to drop it lol.
 

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chem doesnt seem too interesting so i wouldnt mind swapping it with either modern/ancient
would do english adv purely for scaling?
 

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Charity F said:
I wish, If i had the time, that i continued Maths Ext2, because i loved it and found it really interesting. i wish i had more units!! Then i would have been doing 16 =/
WOAH. 16 units... woah.

oh and I dont think eng adv makes much of a difference scaling wise..?
so i've heard.
 

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madd-eh? said:
WOAH. 16 units... woah.

oh and I dont think eng adv makes much of a difference scaling wise..?
so i've heard.
correct,
eng adv and eng std scale the same.

however, it has proven to be much more beneficial to choose adv english.
Only a small % of students recieve a band 6 in standard.
 

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i wish i did 4u maths, chem, phys.

more accurately, i wish i was good at maths/sciences ;o
 

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SHOULD OF WENT TO A PRIVATE SCHOOL!

much better off, picked whatever subject i wanted and knew about Scaling and such.
 
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i've thought about this a lot...

Advanced English - keep
General Maths - already dropped; switch for Economics
Business Studies - boring; switch for Legal
Ancient History - keep
Biology - keep
Italian Continuers - keep; accelerate maybe, and/or pick up extension (i didn't know there was Italian extension at the time of subject selection, so yeah...)

it would have been fun to do german or french beginners (instead of either legal or economics) cause i like language, but i'd have to have done it by correspondence...
 

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I noticed that in my junior years, I was doing extremely well in maths/sciences. Then come the senior years and all of a sudden, I'm doing humanities.

Has anyone noticed a change in their program? I seem to have left my strengths and picked things up from another "category" (help me find the right word? lol I'm so bad at English!!) purely out of interest and now I'm paying for it because although it's interesting, it's not motivating when you keep getting the answers wrong. Maybe I should've done Chemistry or Physics - I never liked Biology.
 

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